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Du Chinese (mobile app for Chinese reading practice)
This is a reading app that contains a number of lessons for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. Apart from the reading material, there is also recorded (not synthesised) audio. The app al... Read more.
duchinese.net
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Olle Linge – over 8 years
Hanping Chinese - Powerful Offline OCR & Dictionary apps for Android
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro and Hanping Chinese Camera are the two highest rated Android apps on Google's Play Store. The dictionary (both free and paid editions available) gives you the ability... Read more.
play.google.com
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hanpingchinese – about 10 years
Wenlin Institute: Software for Learning Chinese
Wenlin software makes learning Chinese easier and more interesting, for begining students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike. It combines a comprehensive Chinese dictionary, a Unicode text edi... Read more.
wenlin.com
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mikelove – about 10 years
Chinese Learn Online (CLO)
Learn Chinese Online with CLO - Go from absolute beginner to intermediate learner with our step by step, progressive audio lessons in Mandarin Chinese Read more.
ChineseLearnOnline.com
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Adam_CLO – about 10 years
Pleco Chinese Dictionary for iOS
Chinese dictionary for iOS with handwriting, OCR, flashcards, audio, document reader (including support for reading words on web pages and in PDF / EPUB documents), stroke order, and more than 20 a... Read more.
itunes.apple.com
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mikelove – about 10 years
好讀 (E-books in traditional Chinese)
This site contains a huge amount of e-books in traditional Chinese. My guess is that downloading and reading them without having the original text might be illegal, but even so, it's often great to... Read more.
haodoo.net
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Marco Polo Project - read and translate new writing from China
The Marco Polo Project is a digital community reading and translating new writing from China. The website proposes a diverse and original selection of new Chinese writing by independent journalists... Read more.
marcopoloproject.org
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Julien Leyre – about 10 years
Simulated Tests of the New Chinese Proficiency Test HSK
Recommended and introduced by Trevor [here](http://www.hackingchinese.com/extensive-listening-challenge-october-2014-wrapping-up/#comment-646686). Each book (one for each level of the new HSK ex... Read more.
amazon.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
知乎 - 与世界分享你的知识、经验和见解 (Chinese Quora)
This site is best described as a Chinese version of Quora, so in other words a site where people ask and answer questions (and discuss other people's questions and answers). Read more.
zhihu.com
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Olle Linge – almost 10 years
New Tong Wen Tang 新同文堂 (Character conversion of websites in most browsers)
This add-on is available for Firefox, Chrome and Safari (and allegedly all other browsers) and allows you to switch between character sets on websites. Note that the conversion is of course automat... Read more.
simplified-traditional.blogspot.tw
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Pleco Chinese Dictionary for Android (Google Play version)
Chinese dictionary for Android with handwriting, OCR, flashcards, audio, document reader, stroke order, and more than 20 available dictionary databases. Read more.
play.google.com
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mikelove – about 10 years
纽约时报中文网 国际纵览 (New York Times, Chinese)
This is the Chinese website of the New York Times. It obviously contains large amounts of reading material about current issues as well as other things. The articles are available in both Chinese a... Read more.
cn.nytimes.com
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Learn to read Chinese… with ease?
Is it easy to learn to read Chinese? ShaoLan, among others, claims that it is. I don't agree, and in this article I discuss some common trends among people who try to portray Chinese as being easy.... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Zhongwen.com - Chinese characters and culture
I first used this dictionary during my first semester of Chinese and I have kept using it ever since. It has pretty good information about character etymology and provides more accurate information... Read more.
zhongwen.com
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
Process of creating a Chinese font
Just you try designing 13,000-plus intricate character shapes that all have to balance one another. Read more.
qz.com
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stefanwienert – over 8 years
Hanping Chinese Popup
The ultimate solution for quickly looking up Chinese words on your smartphone or tablet, no matter what app (or system screens) you are using. Note: For Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher. Whe... Read more.
play.google.com
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hanpingchinese – almost 9 years
Chinese font test page (Chinese Text Project)
THis is a simple but brilliant tool that allows you to check the fonts you currently have installed on your computer/browser. It shows you a number of pictures of characters next to what your compu... Read more.
ctext.org
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Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Chinese Text Annotation (MandarinSpot)
This tool adds inline and pop-up annotations with pronunciation in Pinyin or Zhuyin and English definitions to Chinese text or web pages. It's incredibly useful if you have Chinese text and want to... Read more.
mandarinspot.com
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Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Wengu - Chinese Classics
Nice presentation of Chinese classics in original version and English or French translations. Works include 300 Tang Poems, Analects of Confucius, Lao Tse's Tao Te Ching, the I Ching, and more. Chi... Read more.
wengu.tartarie.com
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Kai Carver – almost 10 years
Bliu Bliu (reading practice matched to your level with vocabulary)
This website gives you reading materials based on your current level. That level is based on a quick assessment at the beginning and presumably also on what you're doing when reading, but I don't k... Read more.
bliubliu.com
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Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Character Pop
Explode Chinese characters into their building blocks; visualize and remember how they are formed. Read more.
characterpop.com
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stefanwienert – almost 10 years
新闻公告 - 汉语考试服务网 (HSK & YCT test resources)
This website offers a large number of previous HSK and YCT Chinese proficiency tests, sorted by year and level. This is excellent for test preparation and/or benchmarking. Read more.
chinesetest.cn
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
SmartHanzi
FREE multi-platform app and desktop software. I use it for looking up words, checking characters etymology, stroke order, collocations. The mobile app also has other functions. For me, this is ... Read more.
smarthanzi.net
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Tikaf Viper – 10 months
Pandaist (graded reader app)
Pandaist is a graded reader app with several hundred articles, including both news articles as well as fictional stories. Every article includes sentence translations, grammar rules and a popup cha... Read more.
pandaist.com
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Olle Linge – about 2 years
Annotator with tone marks, colours, Pinyin and pronunciation (Purple Culture)
This annotator/converter works like any other, meaning that you paste a text in Chinese and add various features. The reason I recommend it is because it has a function where you can add just the t... Read more.
purpleculture.net
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Olle Linge – about 8 years
Hanping Chinese SoundBox (now rolled into Hanping Dictionary) (Android App on Google Play)
UPDATE 2017: This app is now rolled into our Hanping Dictionary apps (Lite, Pro & Cantonese). Great way for beginners to practice single and double-syllable Chinese words. ★ Ideal for any stu... Read more.
hanpingchinese.com
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hanpingchinese – over 8 years
常用100個破音字 (Quiz of 100 common polyphonic characters)
This is a quiz of 100 common polyphonic characters in Chinese. A polyphonic character is a character that has more than one pronunciation. Through 100 sentences, this quiz asks you to fill in the r... Read more.
chinesewaytogo.org
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Olle Linge – about 9 years
Bilingual legends and folk tales (Snowflake Books Ltd)
Snowflake Books' aim is to introduce English translations to children of specially chosen, ancient legends and folk tales alongside the Chinese language (traditional Mandarin or simplified) to fost... Read more.
snowflakebooks.co.uk
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Olle Linge – over 9 years
Influent
This is a language learning game that features among other languages Mandarin Chinese (at first only Japanese was supported). It aims to teach you about 400 words by having a virtual character walk... Read more.
playinfluent.com
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Sebastian Rasmussen – over 9 years
天涯论坛 (Tianya Club)
Tianya Club is a very popular online Chinese forum (according to Wikipedia, it's the twelfth most visited website in China). The site is massive, including not only a forum, but also blogs, photo s... Read more.
bbs.tianya.cn
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Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Hanping Chinese Camera - Android App on Google Play
Save time doing dictionary lookups! Simply point your camera at some Chinese text to get all the English definitions. And everything works offline. Within just a couple of seconds of launching t... Read more.
play.google.com
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hanpingchinese – about 10 years
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite - Android App on Google Play
This is the free edition of Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro which has over 10,000 downloads and comes with a 30-day full refund guarantee. Lite features: ★ Offline access to all features (unless... Read more.
play.google.com
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hanpingchinese – about 10 years
新闻主页 - BBC中文网 (BBC Chinese website)
This is the Chinese website of the BBC, which contains large numbers of articles about news and current events. The articles are available in both simplified and traditional Chinese. However, I don... Read more.
bbc.co.uk
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Epoch Times Culture Web (大紀元文化網)
This site contains hundreds of stories and short essays suitable for intermediate and advanced learners. There's probably more than a thousand stories here, sorted by type (folk tale, idioms, fable... Read more.
epochtimes.com
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
This is a site where you can find theses and dissertations published in Taiwan. It's an excellent source if you want to find research about specific topics and improve your reading ability at the s... Read more.
ndltd.ncl.edu.tw
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
The Cozy Study
A blog written and managed by an advanced Chinese featuring reviews of books, TV dramas and games. Additionally, the blog also features recommendations for utilising media in Chinese language learn... Read more.
thecozystudy.com
花谢月令 – 5 months
edsko.net - Handwriting samples for the HSK curriculum
This site collects calligraphy references for HSK vocabulary. Most other resources for writing cursive script uses much less frequent characters and aren't suitable for second-language learners. If... Read more.
edsko.net
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Olle Linge – 12 months
JinbuPal
JinbuPal is a web app designed to help learners rapidly jumpstart their Chinese skills by focusing on maintaining continual noticeable progress. JinbuPal’s card-based system features individual cha... Read more.
jinbupal.com
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Mike Kennedy – over 1 year
Traditional Chinese Psycholinguistic Database
This website provides a large-scale psycholinguistic norm of 3,314 Traditional Chinese characters along with their naming latencies collected from 140 Chinese speakers. Several variables are gi... Read more.
ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
開放中文轉換 (Open Chinese Convert, OpenCC)
Open Chinese Convert (OpenCC, 開放中文轉換) is an opensource project for conversions between Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese Kanji (Shinjitai). It supports character-level and phrase... Read more.
opencc.byvoid.com
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
读中文书俱乐部: Reading Chinese Books (Reddit)
This subreddit is, as the name implies, about reading books in Chinese. A book is chosen each week by the members and is then read and discussed. Usually, there are links to various versions of the... Read more.
reddit.com
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Olle Linge – over 7 years
@HanpingChengyu Twitter account (animated Chinese Idiom per day)
Follow this Twitter account to get a new animated Chinese Idiom (Chengyu) in your Twitter feed every day. Characters are Simplified Chinese, pronunciation is Pinyin (coloring is [Hanping's](http://... Read more.
twitter.com
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hanpingchinese – almost 8 years
Iteration marks in Chinese (Wikipedia)
Have you ever wondered what a small 二 or weird symbols that look like 〻 or 々 mean in Chinese handwriting? These aren't characters you normally find in printed books, but they do exist in handwritin... Read more.
en.wikipedia.org
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Olle Linge – about 9 years
Chinese Tutor - Flashcards, Dictionary, Speaking Practice
Online Chinese flashcards that adapt to your learning, Chinese speaking practice using voice recognition, and a simple, fast Chinese-English dictionary. Read more.
fastchinese.org
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ChineseTutor – about 10 years
Visual Chinese Search
A search tool for finding visually similar Chinese characters. Input a Chinese character and see a list of other characters that look roughly the same. The tool also offers character decomposition ... Read more.
visualchinesesearch.com
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Kevin Bullaughey – almost 7 years