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Language learning through Video (FluentU)
FluentU offers authentic as well as learner-oriented videos for learning Chinese. A neat interface allows you to use an excellent pop-up dictionary and other useful features to watch and learn from... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
lazylink – almost 9 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
Adam_CLO – almost 10 years
Chinese character stroke order rules (Understanding Chinese Characters on YouTube)
This is a basic video demonstration of the stroke order rules for writing Chinese characters. It's short and if you find something lacking, your question may have already been answered in the comme... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Graded Watching for advanced Chinese learners (vocabulary lists and difficulty rating for TV shows and movies)
"Graded Watching makes watching TV series more approachable for Chinese learners by offering a list of Chinese TV shows on Netflix and Youtube sorted by difficulty, along with a vocabulary list for... Read more.
jiong3.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
CC-Canto - Open-source online Cantonese-English dictionary (Pleco)
Website for Pleco's new free, open-source Cantonese-English dictionary CC-Canto, with 20,000 dedicated Cantonese-English entries plus another 110,000 entries from CC-CEDICT to which we've added hum... Read more.
cantonese.org
mikelove – over 8 years
Culturelab (watch Chinese film, TV and music with subtitles and a pop-up dictionary)
This is a new site that offers Chinese television, film and music videos with the subtitles and a pop-up dictionary. This lowers the barrier for anyone who wants to approach real Chinese. The site ... Read more.
culturelab.cc
Olle Linge – about 9 years
MandarinBanana: Remembering Chinese Characters by Drawing Like a Four-Year-Old
This website serves the purpose to create memorable mnemonics for simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Users can create mnemonics, and add images to the mnemonics using a paint-like front... Read more.
mandarinbanana.com
Matthias – over 9 years
Introduction to Chinese Characters (Video by ABCsof Chinese)
This is a neat video that introduces Chinese characters to complete beginners. It's not a substitute for a real lecture on how characters work, but this is still the best introduction I have seen s... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Learning with Texts (online version)
An online tool for reading texts in foreign languages and saving & reviewing new words and expressions. It can also be downloaded at http://lwt.sourceforge.net/ but it requires more than average co... Read more.
lwtfi3m.co
ednorog – almost 10 years
Horizontal Hanzi: Learn to differentiate similar Chinese characters
Helps with differentiating similar (in appearance) characters. Read more.
horizontalhanzi.com
ChineseTutor – almost 10 years
Learn a Chinese Phrase (Wayne State University on YouTube)
There are currently around 80 videos here that introduces vocabulary and phrases in Chinese. They are mostly idiomatic expressions or other words that typically don't appear in textbooks, so that's... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Douban - 豆瓣
Douban is one of the most popular online Chinese communities and forums. You can read a wide variety of material - on almost any topic imaginable - from native speakers. It's a wonderful source... Read more.
douban.com
Ah-Ke – about 10 years
Hack Chinese - SRS platform for learning Chinese vocabulary online
Hack Chinese is an online tool that aims to solve one of the most pressing challenges faced by Chinese learners: memorizing vocabulary. It caters to non-beginner students who want to reach a high l... Read more.
hackchinese.com
Dariya – over 3 years
Nulinu.li
An online tool for vocabulary learning where the user creates lists of learned words and words to learn, and is shown example sentences for learning and reviewing them. Registration required. Read more.
goo.gl
ednorog – almost 10 years
Known Chinese Words / Characters Test
This application will test your knowledge of a random sample of Chinese words or characters, both common and rare, for the purpose of estimating the number of Chinese words you know. At the end of ... Read more.
zhtoolkit.com
ednorog – almost 10 years
HiNative | A global platform for your questions
HiNative is a Q&A site where you can ask people all over the world about culture, language, anything. We support over 100 languages. Read more.
hinative.com
Rebecca McKay – almost 10 years
CantoDict - Online Cantonese Dictionary
CantoDict: an Online Collaborative Chinese (Cantonese) Dictionary. Read more.
cantonese.sheik.co.uk
mikelove – almost 10 years
甘比亚大陆 - 虎扑篮球论坛
A Chinese discussion forum / social news site with discussions about almost everything. Good for reading about your particular interests or perhaps even participating in the discussions yourself. Read more.
bbs.hupu.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
《时间都去哪儿了》 lyrics translation: Where Has the Time Gone? 英文翻译
"时间都去哪儿了 has been popular recently, especially since it was performed by 王铮亮 (Wáng Zhēngliàng) on 春晚. I thought I'd have a go at annotating it in English." Read more.
eastasiastudent.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass - Master the Art of Learning Chinese Characters
Mastering Chinese characters, whether you find them enchantingly beautiful or overwhelmingly complex, is essential for literacy in Chinese. Outlier Linguistics will help you understand how the Chin... Read more.
outlier-linguistics.com
Olle Linge – about 2 months
JinbuPal Chinese Media Library
A free resource from JinbuPal with hundreds of categorized YouTube channel, movie, TV show, podcast, and online reading resource recommendations. Each resource is tagged with helpful information so... Read more.
jinbupal.com
Mike Kennedy – over 1 year
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
Mike Kennedy – over 1 year
ChineseForUs (YouTube)
ChineseForUs offers a large number of free videos on YouTube. The most basic lessons are much like other lessons found on YouTube, but if you skip to HSK 2 or so, there’s a surprising amount of Chi... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 1 year
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
Olle Linge – over 3 years
李永乐老师 (Chinese Science teacher on YouTube)
李永乐 is a science teacher who has published a large number of science lectures/lessons on YouTube. Each lesson covers a specific topic, some harder than others, but all aimed at native speakers. You... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
K-5 Word Frequency Dictionary for Chinese L2 Learners
This list is somewhat unique in that it draws on materials for people who learn Chinese as a second language, i.e. textbooks, graded readers and so on (read more about the methodology [here](http:/... Read more.
mandarininstitute.org
Olle Linge – almost 5 years
Clozemaster
Clozemaster is language learning gamification through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. Great post-Duolingo app and useful for language learners of all levels. Free to sign up and play! Ch... Read more.
clozemaster.com
Foxears – about 6 years
L-Lingo
Another SRS App with word database with associated pictures ("Leitner" method) Read more.
l-lingo.com
stefanwienert – about 6 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
ChineseTutor – almost 10 years
Improve Your Chinese With: Subtitles
Subtitles offer a way to get endless annotated Chinese audio for free. You use linked-up learning! This article on Chinese Boost includes some resources for people who are looking for subtitles in ... Read more.
chineseboost.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a... Read more.
ted.com
Zoe – 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
Kevin Bullaughey – over 6 years