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shiny Chinese – Original Chinese content.
Learning Chinese with real content. An ever growing collection of curated Chinese content. Read more.
shinychinese.com
malaoshi – almost 10 years
Sing Chinese Songs - Listen to Chinese music and learn Chinese with famous Chinese songs
Resource suggested and introduced by Carlton Gay ([here] (http://www.hackingchinese.com/extensive-listening-challenge-october-2014-wrapping-up/#comment-661842): This is a free simple site with a... Read more.
singchinesesongs.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
MandarinMadeEZ | Mandarin Chinese Video Lessons With Fiona Tian
Mandarin Chinese With Fiona Tian is a free video resource for learning Mandarin Chinese in a fun, enjoyable way. Chinese doesn't have to be hard. Kick back, relax, and enjoy. Read more.
mandarinmadeez.com
Gwilym – almost 10 years
Pinyinput (type Pinyin with tone marks)
Pinyinput is an input method editor (IME) for Windows that makes it easy to type Hanyu Pinyin with tone marks, like so: Hànyǔ Pīnyīn. Read more.
pinyinput.net
imron – almost 10 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
Ninchanese | Efficient and enjoyable Chinese learning
Ninchanese is a complete way to learn Chinese. Its online course allows you to learn and practice how to read, write, speak and understand Chinese in an enjoyable manner. It combines game mechanics... Read more.
ninchanese.com
Sarah – about 8 years
The Grand First Episode Project (about Chinese TV on Chinese Forums)
This is a great thread on Chinese Forums where the participants watch the first episode of a Chinese TV show twice a week. The first post contains a long list of different shows with links to where... Read more.
chinese-forums.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Sing Chinese Songs - Listen to Chinese music and learn Chinese with famous Chinese songs
The official introduction sums it up pretty well: It's a place where you can listen to Chinese music and learn Chinese with famous Chinese songs in Mandarin (simplified characters). As well, le... Read more.
singchinesesongs.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
文明之旅 - Journey of a Civilization
This is a programme that offers interviews with lots of interesting people, with subtitles in both English and Chinese, which makes it suitable for a large range of learners. Many of the episodes a... Read more.
cctv.cntv.cn
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
How and why to watch the world cup in Chinese (Hacking Chinese)
If you're going to watch the world cup, do it in Chinese! Watching sports is an awesome way of learning a language, almost regardless of which level you're at. As a beginner, you can follow what's ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
新浪视频直播 (Sina Sports TV)
Another sports channel. I haven't compared this to the 风云 channel, but I wanted to provide more than one that probably works outside China (does for me at least). This channel offers more than broa... Read more.
video.sina.com.cn
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
风云直播,最快最清晰无插件弹幕直播 (Live Sports Broadcasts)
This channel offers a lot of different programmes and most seem to be available outside China as well. There is a schedule in the top navigation bar (节目单) where you can see what's being broadcast a... Read more.
fengyunzhibo.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
A learner’s guide to TV shows in Chinese, part 1 (Hacking Chinese)
After having talked about how and why to use television to learn Chinese, it's time to look at actual genres and programmes and see how these can help a language learner improve his or her skills. ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Matzka - 情人的眼淚(完整版)
This song is raw emotion. I seldom like emotional music, but I can think of few voices that could convey this lyrics better than his. The lyrics is relatively simple and the pronunciation is clear.... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 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
Sebastian Rasmussen – over 9 years
FourTones (Web music game for learning Chinese)
This game helps you learn tones. You will see the lyrics of Chinese songs approaching you and you're supposed to select which of them actually belong to the lyrics you're hearing. It's a reasonably... Read more.
fourtones.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Movie: 阳光灿烂的日子》In the Heat of the Sun
The film is set in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. It is told from the perspective of Ma Xiaojun nicknamed Monkey who is a teenage boy at the time. Monkey and his friends are free to roam t... Read more.
youtube.com
Scott – almost 10 years
弦子 - 逆風的薔薇
As far as I know, this isn’t the kind of music 弦子 is typically associated with (I’ve checked some of the other albums and didn’t like them at all). This song is quite good, though, even though her ... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
王菲 - 再見螢火蟲
王菲 is extremely well-known in China (or in the West as Faye Wong) and has a marvellous voice, here used to create something darker and leaning more towards rock. Very good indeed. The lyrics make t... Read more.
youtube.com
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 – 4 months
疲惫娇娃 CyberPink
This is a (native-level, authentic) podcast about TV, film and culture. Episodes are long, usually 1-2 hours, focusing on a specific topic, such as a TV series or film, or more general. The discus... Read more.
podcasts.apple.com
Olle Linge – 5 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
Language Reactor (formerly Language Learning with Netflix)
Language Reactor is a Chrome extension that helps you learn a language while watching your favorite Netflix show or videos on YouTube. It shows subtitles in your target language, in your native lan... Read more.
languagereactor.com
Jennifer – over 2 years
看剧学汉语 (Discord Server)
看剧学汉语 is a community on Discord, gathering more than a thousand members, both native speakers and learners. While 看剧 (as in "watch TV series) is part of the name, the server also covers lots of oth... Read more.
discord.gg
Olle Linge – over 3 years
ChineseMe
ChineseMe is the most integrated Mandarin course, designed for motivated learners who have decided to become fluent. It is an interactive textbook that adapts itself to your interests. The course i... Read more.
chinese-me.com
Tim – about 6 years
Select and Speak (Text-to-Speech Chrome Extension)
Select and Speak uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech (TTS) to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk. This is excellent both for productivity and for added listening ... Read more.
chrome.google.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years