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The Chairman's Bao (simplified news for language learners)
The Chairman's Bao offers news in Chinese, written for language learners sorted by HSK level. Each news article comes with text and audio. There's also a live dictionary which you need to sign-up t... Read more.
thechairmansbao.com
Olle Linge – almost 9 years
Chinese-forums.com
Chinese-forums is the best place to go online if you have questions about Chinese or want to browse through threads where other people (some of them very knowledgeable indeed) discuss Chinese and r... Read more.
chinese-forums.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Chinese Language Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange is a site where people can ask questions to the community and get answers back. These answers are then rated by other people in the community and the most helpful answer can be chose... Read more.
chinese.stackexchange.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
新华网 – Xinhua Headlines Bilingual Zone
Xinhua bilingual zone brings you news stories in both English and Simplified Chinese from around China and world Read more.
xinhuanet.com
Sebastian Rasmussen – almost 9 years
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
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
The Sinocism China Newsletter
This newsletter is THE best resource for keeping yourself updated about what's going on in China. The articles included are sometimes in English, sometimes in Chinese, so the recommendation for "ad... Read more.
sinocism.com
Olle Linge – 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 – almost 9 years
VoA bilingual news (英语教学 双语新闻)
This site presents news in both Chinese (simplified) and English. It's targeted at Chinese people learning English, but that matters little, parallel texts are awesome learning resources regardless... Read more.
voachinese.com
Olle Linge – about 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 – over 9 years
ChineseLevel - Test your Chinese level, improve your reading, measure your progress
This is a really cool website that assess your reading ability and then offers reading suggestions based on your estimated vocabulary knowledge. I haven't used this enough to figure out how accurat... Read more.
chineselevel.com
Olle Linge – almost 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
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Chinese Language (Reddit)
This is the most active discussion group on Reddit for discussing questions related to the Chinese language. Most posts here are questions about Chinese, so if you already know a bit, you can help ... Read more.
reddit.com
Olle Linge – about 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
Chinese for Beginners (Coursera & Peking University)
This is a course offered by Peking University and Coursera. It's free to use, but you need to register (you can preview it before you register, though). There are six units, each taking roughly one... Read more.
coursera.org
Olle Linge – almost 9 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
Anki deck: 小城之春 (Spring in a Small Town) - Full Chinese movie
Anki is spaced repetition software. You can create cards and review them, Anki takes care of the rest. This is an Anki video deck containing each sentence from the movie 小城之春. Each card has one ... Read more.
ankiweb.net
Matthias – over 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
今日话题 / QQ's Today's Topic
A collection of articles providing in-depth discussions on current topics. Read more.
view.news.qq.com
ednorog – over 9 years
中文+方言 (Chinese) - WordReference Forums
Word Reference offers several good forums for discussing languages and this is the Chinese section. It's perhaps not as active as Chinese Forums and I don't follow this forum regularly, so I don't... Read more.
forum.wordreference.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
煎蛋:地球上没有新鲜事
This website contains a lot of short and easy-to-access articles about science and technology related articles (although they are usually very lightweight, you don't need to actually be a professio... Read more.
jandan.net
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
TechCrunch 中国
This is the official Chinese version of the popular news website TechCrunch, focusing on information technology and related companies, start-ups and much more. Read more.
techcrunch.cn
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Voice of America Chinese News
This is a news website that features articles, podcasts and videos about news and current affairs in Chinese. Although it is from an American perspective it features a lot of interesting content th... Read more.
voachinese.com
Scott – 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
Langademy (Learn Languages online with native speakers)
Langademy is a language learning social network that connects students with natives from all over the world. Students can practice Chinese, English, French or any other language at Langademy by mak... Read more.
langademy.com
Olle Linge – over 7 years
DigMandarin
DigMandarin offer several interesting resources for free. The blog is a mix of directly useful resources, such as vocabulary for certain situations, and information/inspiration on learning Mandarin... Read more.
digmandarin.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Mandarin HQ - Learn Basic Mandarin for Social, Travel and Work Situations
This site is a free resource for beginner learners of Mandarin who are looking to develop basic conversational ability for social, travel or work situations. It currently contains a small archive o... Read more.
mandarinhq.com
BK – over 9 years
Foreigncy (Reading and vocabulary practice for advanced learners)
Foreigncy provides daily digital flashcards, with audio, that prepare a user to read a foreign policy or economics from a regional source. The site also provide users with an English language summa... Read more.
foreigncy.org
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Peggy Teaches Chinese (Videos, Lessons, Tutoring)
Peggy Teaches Chinese offers a wide variety of videos about learning Chinese (there are currently more than a hundred on YouTube) and they are all free. Peggy also have videos about food and cultur... Read more.
peggyteacheschinese.com
Olle Linge – over 9 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
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
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Engadget (Chinese Edition)
Engadget is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics. This is the Chinese version, so anyone who is interested in tech will find lots of readin... Read more.
chinese.engadget.com
Olle Linge – 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 1 month
Slow Chinese 每周漫闻
This is a newsletter for advanced students run by Andrew Methven. The free version includes a weekly newsletter with highlighted readings and some interesting vocabulary highlighted and discussed. ... Read more.
newsletter.slowchinese.net
Olle Linge – 5 months
mylingua (personalised news feed in Chinese)
Mylingua is a new platform that allows you to access authentic Chinese reading content from the internet, helping you pick reading material that both suits your interests and your reading ability. ... Read more.
mylingua.world
Olle Linge – 5 months
iDaily
Everyday, this iphone/android app displays a few news articles in Chinese. Each article is only a few lines of text. Although the vocabulary is more geared towards advanced students, I also tagge... Read more.
m.idai.ly
Tikaf Viper – 9 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
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
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 – about 2 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
Learn Chinese Club (YouTube videos)
This simple website lists recent YouTube videos teaching Chinese. It's an awesome resource both to keep track of what's being posted and to find new content creators on YouTube. Most of these are f... Read more.
videos.learnchinese.club
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
New Concept Mandarin (Chinese Course Online)
From their website (if you have personal experience of their courses, please leave a comment): New Concept Mandarin specializes in teaching Mandarin Chinese (Putonghua) as a second language. Act... Read more.
newconceptmandarin.com
Olle Linge – about 9 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