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Skritter (app to help you learn to write Chinese characters)
Skritter is an app for learning Chinese vocabulary, especially handwriting. It offers smooth handwriting input with some corrective feedback, combined with spaced repetition that allows you (or me,... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
ChinesePod - Learn Chinese Online & with Mobile Apps
ChinesePod is one of the most comprehensive resources out there when it comes to listening. I started out with ChinesePod a long time ago and found it quite useful, especially from upper-intermedia... Read more.
chinesepod.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Textbook Vocabulary Lists (Skritter)
Vocabulary lists for most major textbooks. Downloading the lists requires free signup to Skritter. Read more.
skritter.com
Kai Carver – almost 10 years
Clavis Sinica Stepping Stones E-textbook
Stepping Stones is a series of lessons in written Chinese for adult beginners. The goal of the series is to provide a systematic introduction to the 300 most commonly used Chinese characters, which... Read more.
clavisinica.com
Olle Linge – over 10 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
hanpingchinese – almost 10 years
Chinese Text Analyser (a tool for segmenting and analysing Chinese text)
This Chinese Text Analyser is a tool that helps you find content suited to your current vocabulary level, and makes it easy to identify and learn new words. You can use it to easily see which words... Read more.
chinesetextanalyser.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Zizzle (app for learning Chinese characters)
Zizzle is an app that turns Chinese characters into engaging pictures and memorable short stories with funny heroes. For every single Chinese character, Zizzle creates a mnemonic story that employs... Read more.
zizzle.io
Olle Linge – over 7 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 – 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
mikelove – about 10 years
Glossika (mass sentences and spaced repetation audio lessons)
Glossika offers an audio method that consists of hundreds of bilingual sentences read by native speakers. They are selected to be natural-sounding and very common sentences and structured to build ... Read more.
glossika.com
lazylink – about 9 years
Chinese Reading Practice | Simplified Chinese Reading Exercises & Materials Blog
A blog of beginner, intermediate, and advanced Chinese reading materials with full English translations. Read more.
chinesereadingpractice.com
Kai Carver – over 9 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
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
中文阅读天地 (University of Iowa)
This site contains a huge number of lessons, complete with texts, vocabulary, audio, exercises and much more. And it's all free. Note that if you want to get the intermediate and advanced material,... Read more.
collections.uiowa.edu
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Hanping Cantonese Dictionary
Offline Cantonese dictionary app for Android. Supports both Traditional and Simplified characters as well as Jyutping and Yale pronunciation. Handwriting recognition, syllable-by-syllable native... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – over 9 years
Character Stroke Order Worksheets (Arch Chinese)
This tool allows you to generate character writing exercise sheets that include stroke order information, thus saving you or your students a lot of time. This is not as customisable as the other on... Read more.
archchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Readibu (app for reading web novels)
Readibu is an app that allows you to find and read novels on your phone (iOS and Android). They don’t create the content themselves, but rather connect with various online sites that offer stories ... Read more.
readibu.com
Olle Linge – about 3 years
Duolingo: Learn Spanish, French and other languages for free
Finally, Duolingo added a En->ZH course. As Duolingo is the most popular gamification learning app, the learning experience is relatively streamlined and tested. The monetarization aspect leads to ... Read more.
en.duolingo.com
stefanwienert – over 6 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
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
hanpingchinese – almost 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
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
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
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro - Android app on Google Play
Pro version gives you: ★ Chinese handwriting recognition built in* ★ Mandarin audio - over 2,000 audio files of a real native Chinese speaker ★ Homescreen Widgets - flip through your favorite wo... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – about 10 years
Chinese: A Modular Approach (FSI Language Courses)
This course is designed to give a practical command of spoken Standard Chinese. Nine situational modules form the core of the course. Each core module consists of tapes, a student textbook, and a w... Read more.
fsi-language-courses.org
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Pinyin introduction and audio charts
This is the traditional Pinyin chart with audio, with the added benefit that you can download it and use it offline. Contains separate mp3 files. Female speaker with clear pronunciation. Edit: Y... Read more.
chinesepod.com
Olle Linge – about 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
Olle Linge – over 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
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
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
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
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 – almost 4 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 – about 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
KTdict: iPhone and iPad dictionary for Chinese learners
This is a dictionary app for iOS that apart from the dictionary itself also offers a document reader (with pop-up translations), OCR (optical character reading) and flashcards. It comes in a paid a... Read more.
ktdict.com
Olle Linge – about 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 – almost 10 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 – almost 10 years
凤凰FM - 中国第一音频平台!(app for streaming of programs, audio books etc.)
This app, which is available for free both on Android and iOS allows you to access tons of programs and audiobooks for free. Some of them aren't free, but it's clearly written which are, so you don... Read more.
diantai.ifeng.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 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
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 – about 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
HSK Grammar Exercises
Basic HSK grammar from beginner to advanced level. The best part is that in each lesson end, there is a quiz to test if you have really mastered the grammar. Read more.
hskcourse.com
Joshua – 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 – 4 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
M Mandarin (漫中文)
This is an app for iOS and Android which has a lot of content, much of it in the form of comics. You can also find the text for each comic separately, but not all the content is free. It’s a little... Read more.
funnybean.com
Olle Linge – about 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
Olle Linge – over 3 years