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大鹏说中文 - Speak Chinese with Da Peng
**Original comment by Jennifer:** Episode length ranges from 5 to 30 minutes and there are hundreds of episodes. Sometimes he has guests on the show (that are non-native speakers). He likes to talk... Read more.
plinkhq.com
Jennifer – over 1 year
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
Olle Linge – almost 2 years
Zungzi (flashcard app for Apple Watch)
A spaced-repetition flashcard app on the Apple Watch to learn Chinese vocabulary from the HSK word lists. Read more.
apps.apple.com
Alan Modey – about 2 years
电子课本网 (digital textbooks for native speakers)
Using textbooks written with the aim of teaching Chinese children about history, mathematics and biology can be great learning resources for adult foreigners as well. This website hosts hundreds an... Read more.
dzkbw.com
Olle Linge – about 2 years
TeaTime Chinese Podcast
TeaTime Chinese is a Podcast Series where Nathan, a native Chinese speaker, speaks clear and „easy“ Chinese. During an episode he speaks only Chinese, almost no English. Every episode is between 5 ... Read more.
teatimechinese.com
Jennifer – about 2 years
Chinese Tools - 40 lessons
As the name implies, Chinese Tools is mostly about tools for learners and teachers, but they also have 40 lessons for beginner students of Chinese. This is not reading practice in the sense of most... Read more.
chinese-tools.com
Olle Linge – about 3 years
Yes! Chinese (中文天下)
This site features a wide variety of texts for beginners and intermediate learners, loosely graded by HSK level. They are written by different authors and the style and difficulty varies greatly. O... Read more.
yes-chinese.com
Olle Linge – about 3 years
書法字典/书法字典 (Online calligraphy dictionary)
This website allows you to enter Chinese characters (simplified or traditional) to search for calligraphy references. A range of different examples of the character in question is shown (depending ... Read more.
9610.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
國語文教育叢書第十九:常用國字辨似
This site (originally a book) explains the difference between commonly mixed up (traditional) characters, published by Taiwan's Ministry of Education. As it says in the introduction, the main purpo... Read more.
language.moe.gov.tw
Olle Linge – over 3 years
The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese characters is an excellent tool to help you understand and thereby learn Chinese characters more effectively. It gives you instant access to the latest res... Read more.
outlier-linguistics.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
田字格字帖生成器 (Chinese Characters Stroke Order Worksheet Creator)
This is a web tool that generates practice sheets for Chinese characters, including stroke order. The interface in entirely in Chinese, but the service is free and requires no log-in. To get stroke... Read more.
an2.net
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
Chinese Character Frequency List (HanziCraft)
Around 6,000 simplified characters without definition or Pinyin, but with clickable links to more information about each character. Not specified what data this list is based on. This resource w... Read more.
hanzicraft.com
Olle Linge – almost 5 years
SUBTLEX-CH: Chinese Word and Character Frequencies Based on Film Subtitles.
This list is based on Chinese movie subtitles and is thus as close to natural spoken language as you can get. 100,000 simplified words without definition or Pinyin, You will find some 这个 and 不能, bu... Read more.
crr.ugent.be
Olle Linge – almost 5 years
电子课本网
This site collects almost a thousand textbooks used in Chinese schools, ranging from grade 1 up to senior high school. Subjects cover Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, biology, his... Read more.
dzkbw.com
Olle Linge – almost 6 years
TOFU Learn
TOFU Learn is an SRS flashcard application that works on the web and on mobile. They support most languages, but have specialised in Chinese. They are often quick to fix issues when their users rep... Read more.
tofulearn.com
Foxears – about 6 years
TutorMandarin: Online Mandarin Tutor
TutorMandarin is an online Chinese tutoring software and service. Students take 1-on-1 classes with professional Mandarin tutors on PC, Android, or iOS. Full courses from Beginner to Advanced, Spok... Read more.
tutormandarin.net
hanpingchinese – over 6 years
Learn languages online for free with Mondly - Language learning made easy, fun and free
Mondly is a mobile app very similar to Duolingo (which does not support Chinese). Pro: * more or less straight course to take, no distractions * It has several languages besides Chinese. Th... Read more.
mondlylanguages.com
stefan-wienert – over 6 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
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
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
hanpingchinese – over 8 years
华老师信箱 (Chinese language Q&A from 华文教育网)
This is a Q&A page where teachers answer questions about Mandarin, mainly vocabulary use and grammar, but sometimes other questions as well. It's mostly useful because of the wealth of information ... Read more.
hwjyw.com
Olle Linge – over 8 years
國語一字多音審訂表 (List of variant character pronunciations, Taiwan standard)
This is a very large list of traditional characters with multiple pronunciations in the form of an Excel file (the other two files are announcements about the list in Chinese). The first sheet just... Read more.
word.hlc.edu.tw
Olle Linge – over 8 years
Those Chinese characters that are really easy to get mixed up (Fluent in Mandarin)
This is blog post listing easily confused characters. It's very helpful to see these next to each other since they are hard to keep separate if you only see them one by one. The selection is based ... Read more.
fluentinmandarin.com
Olle Linge – over 8 years
A Radical View (radicals neatly grouped by theme from gotCharacters)
A neat overview of most of the radicals, grouped by meaning. Sold as a poster too! Read more.
gotcharacters.com
Olle Linge – about 9 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
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
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Quantifying Simplified Chinese
What can we say mathematically about the difference between simplified and traditional Chinese characters? This is an in-depth discussion about character simplification, the information content of ... Read more.
medium.com
Olle Linge – about 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
Sebastian Rasmussen – over 9 years
Tasty Mantou Chinese (Online dictionary)
This dictionary is new and looks promising. It provides easy look-up for characters and words (both simplified and traditional) along with sample sentences with audio. You can also write characters... Read more.
tastymantou.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
《重訂標點符號手冊》修訂版 (Punctuation Manual)
This site offers detailed information of how to use punctuation marks in Chinese. Even though the usage is very close to English, it's not identical, so it's good to have a reference to look things... Read more.
language.moe.gov.tw
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Global Language Online Support System (with Chinese lessons)
This page offers several hundred lessons for Chinese about different topics, including both reading practice and listening. They also have some learning activities, including quizzes. I have tried ... Read more.
gloss.dliflc.edu
Olle Linge – 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
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
hanpingchinese – almost 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
hanpingchinese – 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
常用國字標準字體筆順學習網 (Common Character Stroke Order Look-up and Training)
This site from Taiwan's Ministry of Education is the definitive resource for stroke order for anyone who is learning traditional characters. Select your search method from the top (單子查詢 for enterin... Read more.
stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw
Olle Linge – about 10 years
東東錯別字詞典:網上中文錯別字字典 (Chinese Spell-checker)
This site allows you to look up what words a character commonly occurs in and what possible problem there are, thus allowing you to answer question like when you should use 欲 and 慾 or 善 and 擅. It a... Read more.
kwuntung.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
第二次汉字简化方案(草案)红_百度文库
This document details an additional phase of character simplifications that was never implemented. It's still interesting to look at and whereas some simplifications make sense, others would have m... Read more.
wenku.baidu.com
Olle Linge – about 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
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
Olle Linge – about 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
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Learn Taiwanese Mandarin (podcast)
As the name implies, Learn Taiwanese Mandarin is a podcast for those who focus on Taiwanese Mandarin, but well worth checking out if you want to listen to different accents too (which you should). ... Read more.
lear-taiwanese-mandarin.webnode.tw
Olle Linge – about 1 month
MaoMi Chinese (intermediate podcast)
The MaoMi Chinese podcast is suitable for intermediate learners, offering mostly scripted monologues to improve your Chinese. The host is from Guangdong and is quite good at explaining more difficu... Read more.
maomichinese.com
Olle Linge – about 1 month
自然而然说中文 Speak Chinese Naturally
This is a podcast about language and culture, featuring written content read aloud. The reason I don't recommend this as pure listening practice is because it's hard enough that if you can follow t... Read more.
podfollow.com
Olle Linge – about 2 months
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 – 2 months
声动早咖啡 (daily business news podcast)
This podcast keeps you up-to-date with business news in short, daily episodes. It's a great way to both learn Chinese and stay current at the same time. The length of the episodes makes this podcas... Read more.
podcasts.apple.com
Olle Linge – 3 months
铥铥科幻电波 - 未来事务管理局 (science fiction podcast)
This podcast focuses on science fiction in all its forms, from classic works of Western science fiction literature to modern Chinese TV series. Episodes typically focus on specific books, films or ... Read more.
podcasts.apple.com
Olle Linge – 3 months
半拿铁 | 商业沉浮录 (Business story podcast)
This podcast focuses on business-related stories, usually about famous business people or the history of big companies. The two hosts take turns researching a project and then tell the other person... Read more.
xiaoyuzhoufm.com
Olle Linge – 3 months
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 – 3 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 – 4 months
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 – 6 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 – 6 months
Chinese Podcast With Shenglan
Quoted from the website: "Chinese Podcast With Shenglan, a podcast where we talk about language learning, Chinese culture and society, is created for intermediate Chinese learners. These episode... Read more.
chinesepodcastwithshenglan.com
Akobato – 8 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 – 11 months