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教育部國語、臺語、客語辭典民間版 (Taiwan Ministry of Education Online Dictionary)
This is by far the best dictionary for people who learn Chinese in Taiwan, at least when you reach the intermediate level (many entries lack English). There is also an app you can use and there's r... Read more.
moedict.tw
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
Arch Chinese - Learn Chinese with innovative Chinese writing worksheets and powerful online Chinese English dictionary
Arch Chinese offers quite a lot of features (Worksheets, Flashcards, Pinyin Table, Radicals, Tools), but the most useful thing is still the dictionary. It offers sound, stroke animations and, most ... Read more.
archchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
HSK Study and Exercises
HSK Course is an online platform for HSK preparation. It aims to help you not only successfully pass the exam, but gain confidence in using Chinese language. It mainly has 3 parts: Grammar Les... Read more.
hskcourse.com
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Sabina – over 1 year
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
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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
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Olle Linge – almost 4 years
HSK level - Online Chinese level test
Test your Mandarin Chinese vocabulary level in a few minutes. Get a an estimate of your HSK level, keep track of your progress to get to the next level! Read more.
hsklevel.com
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Frapy – almost 4 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
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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
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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
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stefan-wienert – over 6 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
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hanpingchinese – 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
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Olle Linge – over 8 years
HSChinese (customized online learning with lessons and exams)
HanSheng Chinese is an online learning platform for chinese with customized courses. It features Listening, Reading and Writing practices as well as a test for you proficiency-level and exams to... Read more.
hschinese.com
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lazylink – about 9 years
Chinese Pronunciation Wiki (AllSet Learning)
This newly launched site offers basic information about pronunciation, mostly things that should be in all beginner courses and textbooks but seldom are. Currently, the content is fairly limited, b... Read more.
resources.allsetlearning.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Mandarin Chinese Phonetics Table
Another web-based resource with recorded audio for all syllables with all tones. You can also get the “spelling” of the syllable read to you, ie. Initial, final and then the whole syllable. Read more.
lost-theory.org
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Sebastian Rasmussen – over 9 years
Pinyin charts with audio for iPad (Allset Learning)
This is an excellent (free) app for those who want to familiarise themselves with Pinyin. This beats anything written in a standard textbook and the ease of access of all the sounds is a must for b... Read more.
allsetlearning.com
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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
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Olle Linge – almost 10 years
tghz-word-tone-annotator - Annotating Hanzi with tones and pinyin in Microsoft Word
This program adds tone marks on top of characters in Microsoft Word. This is quite useful if you want to produce texts that have tones but not Pinyin, enabling yourself or your students to focus on... Read more.
twighk.github.io
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Olle Linge – about 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
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hanpingchinese – about 10 years
The Phonology of Standard Chinese by Duanmu San (Review on Hacking Chinese)
Duanmu San's "The Phonology of Standard Chinese" is by far the best introduction to Mandarin phonology that I'm aware of. It's mostly useful for people who like phonology or are already at an advan... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Chart with Audio
This is a simple table where you can access sound files of syllables in Mandarin read with all four tones. Unlike [the other one I have also recommended](http://resources.hackingchinese.com/s/xqoai... Read more.
hkchinesemandarintutor.com
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Why good feedback matters and how to get it
Teachers give feedback in many different ways, some terribly bad, others very good. The bad ones let you struggle for hours just to correct your essay, not necessarily learning much on the way. The... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Mnemonics for Pronouncing Chinese Characters
Serge Gorodish describes himself as "Mathematician, father, programmer, amateur linguist, cynic/idealist, and all-around nice guy" and has found a way to split pinyin syllables in components, which... Read more.
countryoftheblind.blogspot.de
Matthias – over 10 years
Tone Colors and What Pleco Did with Them (Laowai Chinese 老外中文)
This blog-post offers an introduction to the concept of coloured tones in Chinese learning software. Where do the colours come from? Why were they chosen? And what colours should you choose for you... Read more.
laowaichinese.net
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
Hanping Chinese Website
This is the website home of the Hanping Chinese Android apps. While the Android apps contain all the Chinese language-learning functionality, the website provides useful app showcasing, FAQs and ap... Read more.
hanpingchinese.com
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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
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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
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Olle Linge – 4 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 – 5 months
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
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Mike Kennedy – over 1 year
Type IPA phonetic symbols for all languages
This is a simple input tool where you can use your keyboard or mouse to compose text in IPA. If you only need a single word, copy/pasting is probably good enough, but this is handy if you want more... Read more.
ipa.typeit.org
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Olle Linge – over 1 year
Seeing Speech (articulation visualised through MRI and UTI scans)
This is a unique resource that shows how most common speech sounds are actually produced. Most other resources use animations and diagrams, but this is the frist I see which show actual MRI scans. ... Read more.
seeingspeech.ac.uk
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Olle Linge – over 1 year
國家教育研究院雙語詞彙、學術名詞暨辭書資訊網 (bilingual and scientific vocabulary search)
This site is hosted by the National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan) and offers a search function to facilitate working with English and Chinese vocabulary in an academic setting. Search f... Read more.
terms.naer.edu.tw
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Olle Linge – almost 3 years
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
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Olle Linge – about 3 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
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
OptiLingo Language Learning (Chinese)
Description provided by OptiLingo (I have not yet tried this service myself): "OptiLingo is a hands-free language learning app that prioritizes learning Chinese through speaking rather than typi... Read more.
optilingo.com
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Olle Linge – almost 4 years
Mandarin Syllable Frequency Counts for Chinese Characters
This list contains syllable frequency, listing each syllable, with Pinyin and Zhuyin, as well as a sample character. It’s not sorted in order of frequency, but the frequency data is there. Also, pl... Read more.
technology.chtsai.org
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Olle Linge – about 5 years
Chinese Vocabulary Profiler (Chinese Text Computing)
This website offers many tools related to vocabulary frequency analysis, some of which are also useful for teachers and students. This particular tool, Chinese Vocabulary Profiler, helps you analys... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Foxears – about 6 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
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Tim – about 6 years
Floomli - language exchange network
Floomli is a free platform for exchange languages during video call, voice call or text conversation. By joining Floomli you become a part of a global language practicing network . The main goal of... Read more.
floomli.com
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Marek – over 7 years
Idiomatic Forest (practice your Chinese by describing pictures)
Idiomatic Forest helps learners activate their language skills by discussing and describing pictures, getting feedback from native speakers in return for helping others learn your language. Read more.
idiomaticforest.com
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Olle Linge – almost 8 years
Talking Chinese–English–Chinese Phrasebook app from Paiboon Publishing and Word in the Hand
This is a fairly extensive phrasebook with some added extras. It has over 12,000 words, phrases and complete sentences in more than 250 categories. This app is meant for beginners, but works well f... Read more.
word-in-the-hand.com
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Olle Linge – over 8 years
普通话异读词审音表 (List of variant character pronunciations, mainland standard)
This page lists variant pronunciations and their standard readings in Mandarin Chinese (Mainland Standard). It does not list characters that have different readings based on different meanings, so ... Read more.
baike.baidu.com
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Olle Linge – over 8 years
Practical Mandarin (Chinese Lessons in London)
A London-based school that takes their Mandarin courses to the next level - integrating technology (bespoke Phone Flashcards) and HSK test planning into their courses from Beginner, Intermediate to... Read more.
practicalmandarin.co.uk
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Olle Linge – about 9 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
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Olle Linge – over 9 years
Hanbridgemandarin.com (online and campus courses)
Hanbridge Mandarin provides campus-based courses, online classes, and intensive cultural immersion programs. I don't know anyone who has attended any of their classes personally, but they cover the... Read more.
hanbridgemandarin.com
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Olle Linge – over 9 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
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ChineseTutor – about 10 years
Transcription into Chinese characters (Wikipedia)
Have you ever wondered how names from other languages are transliterated into Chinese? There is actually a reference table where you can see how different sounds are translated into Chinese charact... Read more.
en.wikipedia.org
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Chinese is Easy! Ep1 - Chinese Tones
This video is produced by Hutong School and explains the very basics of Chinese tones, suitable for the complete beginner or those that are thinking about learning Chinese and want to know a little... Read more.
youtube.com
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Olle Linge – about 10 years