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新浪视频直播 (Sina Sports TV)
Another sports channel. I haven't compared this to the 风云 channel, but I wanted to provide more than one that probably works outside China (does for me at least). This channel offers more than broa... Read more.
video.sina.com.cn
Olle Linge – over 10 years
风云直播,最快最清晰无插件弹幕直播 (Live Sports Broadcasts)
This channel offers a lot of different programmes and most seem to be available outside China as well. There is a schedule in the top navigation bar (节目单) where you can see what's being broadcast a... Read more.
fengyunzhibo.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
10 Inspiring Chinese Proverbs for Chinese Learners
Want to learn about Chinese proverbs? Here are detailed explanations of 10 Chinese proverbs that will inspire you. Read more.
fluentu.com
Alan – over 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 – over 10 years
Khan Academy Mandarin
This is probably one of the best resources for upper-intermediate or advanced learners of Chinese who want to learn something using their Chinese. Khan Academy has hundreds of videos about differen... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
A collection of novels and e-books (translated from English) in Chinese
This is a huge collection of e-books written in Chinese. A lot of them are originally written in English, so you can find Chinese versions of the Hobbit, The Bourne series, Dan Brown books and many... Read more.
lz.book.sohu.com
Scott – over 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 – over 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 – over 10 years
一步一个脚印 - My mission from advanced Chinese learner to professional interpreter
This is Carl Fordham's blog about his mission to go from being an advanced native speaker to becoming a professional translator. He shares an awful lot of interesting and directly applicable materi... Read more.
carlgene.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
科学脱口秀 | 节操满地聊科学 (Science Talk Show)
This is an excellent talk show focusing on science, usually featuring several people discussing a certain topic in a relatively free manner (thus this is a lot more natural than anything that is si... Read more.
kexuetuokouxiu.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
A learner’s guide to TV shows in Chinese, part 1 (Hacking Chinese)
After having talked about how and why to use television to learn Chinese, it's time to look at actual genres and programmes and see how these can help a language learner improve his or her skills. ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
How to find out how good your Chinese pronunciation really is
Evaluating pronunciation needn't be hard, but many methods commonly used by teachers are deeply flawed, resulting in inaccurate error analysis. If we want to improve, we need to be clear about what... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Archives for Interpreting Resources | 一步一个脚印
This is a link to a category of posts on Carl Gene Fordham's blog that are meant to hone your skills as an interpreter. However, even if they are excellent for that purpose, they can be used for mu... Read more.
carlgene.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
The future of Chinese language learning is now (about handwriting and romanised text) (Language Log)
In this blog post, Victor Mair discusses the relative (un)importance of learning to write large numbers of characters by hand (especially for beginners) and the impact of technology for learners of... Read more.
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
Olle Linge – over 10 years
John Pasden's complete tips on Chinese pronunciation (Sinosplice)
John Pasden has over ten years of experience teaching Chinese language, and a particular awareness of phonetic difficulties. This page gathers a number of posts on his website sinosplice about pron... Read more.
sinosplice.com
Julien Leyre – over 10 years
Asking the experts: How to learn Chinese grammar
How should we learn Chinese grammar? There are many, many different ways of approaching grammar, both from a theoretical point of view and from a practical, student perspective. Because this is suc... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 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 – over 10 years
Laowai Chinese 老外中文
Laowai Chinese doesn't update often, but when it does, it's usually worth reading. The blog is about anything related to Chinese and China, but I find posts about vocabulary, grammar and culture th... Read more.
laowaichinese.net
Olle Linge – over 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
Learn Chinese (Sinosplice)
This is John Pasden's site about learning Chinese. Apart from the various resources shown on this page, he also writes one of the longest-running and most popular blogs about learning Chinese and l... Read more.
sinosplice.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
An Easier Way to Learn Chinese: Comprehensible Input
My third freelance article written for the FluentU Chinese language learning blog. This time I talk about comprehensible input, scaffolding and offer some concrete guidelines for how to make immers... Read more.
fluentu.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Chinese Notes — Grammar (中文笔记 - 语法)
This is a comprehensive overview of Chinese grammar with lots of detailed information on many levels. One advantage is that most terms are written both in English and Chinese, which is very good if... Read more.
chinesenotes.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
25 books I read in Chinese last year
My goal for 2013 was to read 25 books in Chinese. This article is about the 25 books I read and is meant to serve as encouragement and inspiration. You might also find a book or two you want to rea... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Bumpy Chinese / Comprehensible Chinese (YouTube / Podcast)
This is one of the best comprehensible input channels I’ve found so far! That means that she gives you plenty of listening practice without spending five minutes speaking English for every minute o... Read more.
youtube.com
Olle Linge – almost 2 years
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 – almost 2 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 – over 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 – over 2 years
Heavenly Path - Introduction to native content
Heavenly Path provides a great [reading guide](https://heavenlypath.notion.site/Comprehensive-Reading-Guide-From-beginner-to-native-novels-b3d6abd583a944a397b4fbbb81e0c38c) that lays out for you ho... Read more.
heavenlypath.notion.site
Jennifer – over 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 – over 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 – over 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 – over 3 years
故事 FM (Story-Telling Podcast)
This podcast is rather popular in China and covers a wide range of topics, including things that typically aren't covered in learner podcasts (this is produced for native speakers). The criteria fo... Read more.
storyfm.cn
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 – almost 4 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 – about 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 – over 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 – over 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 – over 6 years
The Mandarin Corner (self-studying Mandarin language and culture)
This is a blog about Chinese language and culture run by Lewis Tatt. It's been online for several years, but I only noticed it recently. It hosts a large number of interesting articles, often focus... Read more.
themandarincornerblog.com
Olle Linge – about 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 – almost 9 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 – almost 9 years
Master Mandarin: The Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Chinese the Fun Way - Language Mastery
You don’t need to spend thousands on classes. You don’t need boring textbooks. You don’t need to be good at languages. And you don’t have to move to China or Taiwan (though that’s great if you can)... Read more.
l2mastery.com
hanpingchinese – 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 – over 9 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 – over 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 – over 9 years
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 – over 9 years
新聞挖挖哇 News Wa List - Love TV Show 綜藝節目
This is a Taiwanese chat show. Topics switch between politics/news stories and social issues. They sometimes slip into Taiwanese on the show, but in general speak Mandarin. The link above uses trad... Read more.
2014a.vslovetv.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Preparing for rainy days and dealing with slumps (Hacking Chinese)
We all experience slumps in our learning, but there are many thing we can do to reduce the negative effects of these slumps. The solution is three-fold: Preparing for the slump before it hits you, ... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
天涯论坛 (Tianya Club)
Tianya Club is a very popular online Chinese forum (according to Wikipedia, it's the twelfth most visited website in China). The site is massive, including not only a forum, but also blogs, photo s... Read more.
bbs.tianya.cn
Olle Linge – about 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 – about 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 – about 10 years
Top 10 Chinese Vocabulary Words for the Ghost Month
10 useful vocabulary words related to the Chinese traditional holiday 鬼月(guĭ yuè), the ghost month, Read more.
fluentu.com
Alan – about 10 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 – about 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
果壳网 科技有意思
This site offers a wide range of short articles on science and technology related articles. They also offer MOOCs, but I haven't actually tried them yet. This is from their official about page: ... Read more.
guokr.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years