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Chinese Computing Information (input methods, fonts, browsers, coding)
This is a comprehensive introduction to the world of digital Chinese, including the following: Script Basics Activate Keyboards for Typing Browser Recommendations Web Developm... Read more.
sites.psu.edu

Olle Linge – almost 10 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 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 – over 10 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 10 years
Live It China - Find your language partner
This site offers language exchange partners (and also seems to plan to provide tutors and language teaching services as well). The language partner part of the site is free, though, so if you're lo... Read more.
liveitchina.com

Olle Linge – over 10 years
A Comprehensive Guide to Euphemisms in Chinese and English (一步一个脚印)
This is a list of euphemisms in Chinese and English, sorted into 18 categories. It's probably not necessary to know how to say all these, but it's definitely useful to have heard them and understan... Read more.
carlgene.com

Olle Linge – over 10 years
The three roads to mastering Chinese
Mastering a foreign language is a daunting task, especially a language as foreign as Chinese! In this article, I outline three possible roads that all lead towards mastery. They have in common that... Read more.
hackingchinese.com

Olle Linge – over 10 years
"Learn Chinese" Resource Bank (by LaowaiChinese.net)
Tips, Tricks, Software, Websites and Lessons to make learning Chinese easier. This is basically an aggregator that collects blog-posts and new updates from a large variety of sites related to learn... Read more.
netvibes.com

Olle Linge – almost 11 years
Forumosa | Taiwan's Global Online Community
Forumosa is a major online forum where you can discuss anything regarding Taiwan, including living there, learning Chinese, finding friends, jobs or language exchange partners and much more. There'... Read more.
forumosa.com
Olle Linge – almost 11 years
Learn Mandarin Chinese Online With ChineseVoyage: A Course In Contemporary Chinese
Master conversational level Chinese and excel in HSK exams with ChineseVoyage, the best online platform integrating HSK levels into beginner courses. Read more.
chinesevoyage.org

Fifi103 – 7 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 – about 1 year
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 – over 1 year
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 – about 2 years
Chillchat Podcast
From the website: "Chillchat is a podcast made specifically for Chinese language learning, to create immersion of the language for Chinese learners while covering useful content." During the po... Read more.
buymeacoffee.com

Jennifer – almost 3 years
Learning and teaching resources from the Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (University of Oxford)
This website contains a large number of resources for learning and teaching Chinese, including introductions to the spoken and written language, characters, grammar and pronunciation. They also pro... Read more.
ctcfl.ox.ac.uk

Olle Linge – almost 3 years
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 – almost 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

Olle Linge – over 4 years
The Chinese Language Institute (CLI)
The Chinese Language Institute (CLI) offers free Mandarin learning resources in the form of articles on a variety of topics including Chinese characters, Chinese grammar and chengyu. They also offe... Read more.
studycli.org

AnneM – over 4 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 5 years
Wǒ ài pīnyīn!
This is a very in-depth article about how Pinyin is written, focusing mainly on the letters used, the typeface, arrangement on the page, and so on. It probably contains more about this topic than y... Read more.
thetype.com

Olle Linge – about 5 years
Teach Yourself Mandarin Blog
All the information you need to know in order to be able to teach yourself Mandarin from scratch with several resources. Read more.
teachyourselfmandarin.wordpress.com

TeachYourselfMandarin – almost 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

Tim – almost 7 years
CHDICT Chinese-Hungarian dictionary
Open-source, community edited Chinese-Hungarian dictionary • 11,000 headwords • Handwriting recognition • Stroke order animations Read more.
chdict.zydeo.net

hanpingchinese – almost 8 years
Online Mandarin Chinese lessons
Get Online Mandarin Chinese lessons from our Personal Language Tutors through Skype to increase your opportunities for career, travel and friendship or to follow your favourite Chinese film. Read more.
nativemonks.com
Sarah Thomas – almost 8 years
GoEast Language Centers (Blog, online/offline lessons)
This is a blog about China, Chinese culture, and language (including grammar and studying tips) which belongs to GoEast Language Centers. Browsing blog posts reveal some interesting topics, such as... Read more.
goeastmandarin.com

Olle Linge – over 8 years
How to Learn Chinese (free e-book from LTL Mandarin School)
This is a free e-book with a collection of articles about how to learn Chinese, to which I have contributed one chapter about listening ability. This is a good collection overall with contributions... Read more.
livethelanguage.cn

Olle Linge – over 8 years
The Open Languages Project (learning Chinese character-by-character)
This is a character-by-character beginner course in Chinese, provided free of charge at the Open Languages Project. It teaches you to read (and listen to) Chinese by explaining and introducing one ... Read more.
oplang.org

Olle Linge – about 9 years
Foreigncy (Mandarin)
Foreigncy has nearly 300 free Mandarin language training sets that help improve your media vocabulary, reading comprehension, and listening skills while raising your awareness of regional events. T... Read more.
foreigncy.us

Olle Linge – about 9 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

Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Fun Chinese Mandarin Lessons for Everyone - ChineseSkill
Official description: ChineseSkill apps help you learn Chinese Mandarin from zero for free. Interactive, structured and thorough, ChineseSkill combines the fun of games and depth of textbooks into ... Read more.
chineseskill.com

Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Tandem (language exchange app)
This app allows you to connect with native speakers of different languages around the world, and might be a good alternative, especially for people who don't live in China or don't have lots of Chi... Read more.
tandemapp.me

Olle Linge – almost 10 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 – almost 10 years
eChineseLearning
Their own introduction: Learn Chinese online at eChineseLearning.com – a premier online Chinese language school in the world. Students can learn Chinese online via Skype through 1-on-1 lessons w... Read more.
echineselearning.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 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

Olle Linge – about 10 years
Culture Alley Mandarin
This site offers basics, self-paced lessons where you can learn basic vocabulary and grammar (usually with audio as well). There are also Skype lessons and other more interactive parts of the site ... Read more.
culturealley.com

Olle Linge – over 10 years
Living a Dream in China - Advice for life, love and language learning in China
I find it very hard to classify this blog because it contains a little bit of everything. This is how Sara's describes her own blog: "Finnish girl living in China offering advice for life, love ... Read more.
sarajaaksola.com

Olle Linge – over 10 years
Fake it Until You Make It (The World of Chinese)
We are all experts in self-curation these days. China is no different, sometimes with disastrous results. Here are a few of the nation’s most gaudy pretenders. Read more.
theworldofchinese.com

Olle Linge – almost 11 years
Jason D. Patent on "An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics" by Perry Link
This is a review of Perry Link's book about Chinese. This passage sums it up pretty well, and although I haven't read the book (yet), it's high on my list of books to get my hands on: "In writin... Read more.
lareviewofbooks.org

Olle Linge – almost 11 years