By Ling-Ling Lisa Shih
From Ling-LingChinese.com
Chinese Learning Websites
- Pages on Resources for Learning Chinese中文教学资源网页
- Resources for Learning Chinese from Hack Chinese
- Learn Chinese Online: 60 Excellent Free Resources
- Resources from Benny’s Top Resources for Learning Chinese
- Resources: Learn Chinese Online: The 71 Best Free Resources in 2018
- Best Mandarin Chinese Resources
- Top 10 Websites to Learn Chinese For Free – China Whisper
- The 10 best free listening resource collections for learning Chinese
- What Are the Best Websites to Learn Chinese? Bookmark These 7 Sites Now
- MANDARIN LANGUAGE RESOURCES byt Eurolinguiste
- 111 Mandarin Chinese Resources You Wish You Knew
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Learn Chinese Online from Top 20 Chinese Language Blogs (Refresh the list regularly)
- 100 top resources to learn Mandarin Chinese by MARTA KRZEMIŃSKA
- 汉语学习资源 Chinese Learning Resources from learningchinesethroughstories.com
- ChinesePod: the Official Blog
- BBC-Languages-Real Chinese
- CCTV Learn Chinese
- Chinese Multimedia: A Supplementary Chinese Course at Elementary-Intermediate Level
- MandarinChineseSchool–Resources
- Chinese.remembr.it (Free Mandarin Chinese Courses developed by FSI)
- I Love Learning Chinese
- Fluent in 3 Months
- Chinese Program 中文 at North Central College
- Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language 牛 津 大 学 汉 语 教 学 中 心
- Chinese Bridge
- Chinese Reading World
- Chinese Reading Practice
- Just Learn Chinese
- Chinese-Tools.com
- Chinese to Learn
- Chinese-Lessons: Learn Cantonese, Mandarin, and Chinese characters online for free
- Fluent in Mandarin
- Learn Chinese thru Bible
- Mandarin Chinese: How to Learn Mandarin ChineseDaily Mandarin Phrases for Developing Mandarin Vocabulary
- Mandarin For Me
- Slow Chinese 慢速中文
- 听故事学中文 Learning Chinese through Stories
- Portal for All Things Mandarin Chinese
- Rocket Chinese
- Rutgers Chinese Language Lessons
- Yoyo Chinese
- Chinese in Traveling Life 旅游生活汉语
- EChineseLearningGeneral Chinese
- Chinese Nursery Rhymes
- Chinese Buddy Learning Songs
- 六一儿童网 (61ertongwang: 61 Children’s Network)
- 《说说唱唱》
- 说说唱唱唐诗
- 唐诗300首合集
- Free and Low-Cost Ways to Learn a New Language
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中国成语故事 (Chinese Idioms):
- Audio Novels in Chinese 有声小说6CD合集
- CCTV Learn Chinese
- Digmandarin.com
- 中新网ECNS. CN Learning Chinese
- Words and Pictures 看圖識字 (By Min-Multimedia) Characters and pictures are presented and accompanied by a voice of a teacher and a child reading the words. Good for kids to learn.
- Growing Up With Chinese (100 Videos on Chinese lessons)
- Speak Mandarin in 1000 Words 一千字说华语 (Videos) Taught in traditional characters by Hua Yu World 全球华文网
- Little Fox: Animated Stories and Songs for Chinese LearnersStories (Level 1)
- The Carter Family (卡特家庭) | Level 3 | Chinese | By Little Fox (24 videos)
- 看圖學中英文 (Look at Pictures and Learn English and Chinese vocabularies (in traditional characters) (videos)
- Miss Panda Chinese
Free Chinese Textbooks
- 全球華語網 Hanyu World《學華語向前走》 教材 《Let’s Learn Chinese》(Vol 1-10)(第一册到第十册)
- Learning Chinese Online – Learning Materials/Textbooks
- 《实用节奏汉语》 Practical Rhythmic Chinese
- 《实用汉语课本》(第一册)Practical Chinese Readers Book I
- 《实用汉语课本》(第二册)Practical Chinese Readers Book II
Apps for Learning Chinese
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The 6 Best Learn to Read Chinese APPs – Learn Chinese Online
- Chairmanbao: Learn Chinese through news
- 6 Shockingly Good Apps for Learning Mandarin Chinese
- 5 awesome apps for learning Mandarin Chinese
- Top 10 Applications for Learning Chinese
- The 8 best apps to learn Chinese on your smartphone or tablet
- 15 Smartphone Apps to Teach Yourself Chinese
- Pinyin Apps:
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chinese radicals apk – 10 Android games & apps: Help you learn essential Chinese radicals.
- ChineseSkill – Learn Chinese Language
- HelloChinese – Learn Chinese Mandarin with Fun
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Decipher Chinese – the news app for Chinese learners: Easy HSK level graded articles written by experienced mandarin teachers.
- Read Chinese, Learn Mandarin – daily easy Chinese news
- Learn Chinese Mandarin Phrases
- Anki: For acing your vocabulary
- Pleco: For a free, offline Chinese-English dictionary
- LINE dictionary: Chinese-Eng
- KTdict C-E (Chinese-English dictionary)
- FluentU: Mandarin Chinese immersion online
- Skritter: For learning Chinese writing
- Chinese Writer by TrainChinese
- Hanzi Warrior By Difint, LLC
- Memrise
- Learn Chinese (Mandarin) by MindSnacks
- Mandarin Tap By Alan Hampson
- LEARN CHINESE WITH CHINABUBBLES
- Tang Poetry for Students of Chinese By Clavis Sinica
- Tang Poetry
- Character List 10k
- Chinese Characters First Steps
- HSK Level 1 Vocab List
- Learn Chinese in 3D Free
- 365 Sentences
- Art of Chinese Characters
- Business Chinese Free
- iTunes App Store: Duwen Chinese Literacy Trainer
- Google Play Store: Duwen Chinese Literacy Trainer
- DECIPHER CHINESE: Learn as you read
- Google Pinyin Input
- 懒人听书 Audio Books
- Growing Up With Chinese (Chinese lessons videos)
On-line Chinese Language Tools:
Tools for reading Chinese online:
- Chinese Language Tools for Reading and Writing
- Zhongwen: A Chinese-English Popup Dictionary or Perapera Chinese Pop-Up Dictionary: These are commonly used Chinese-English Popup Dictionaries. Put your mouse over any Chinese words on a webpage and it gives you the pronunciation and definition. Find the right one suitable for your browser and device. The Plugin for Firefox is Pera Pera Kun, and in Google Chrome you can use Zhongwen: A Chinese-English Popup Dictionary. After you install the plugin for firefox, you will need to install the Chinese dictionary separately.
- Chinese English Dictionary–Arch Chinese: It will show you the stroke order of each character you look up.
- Zhongwen: A Chinese-English Popup Dictionary
- Line Dictionary Chinese to English
- Traditional/Simplified Chinese Converter
- Chinese Character to Pinyin Converter
- Mandarin Spot annotation tool: Paste some text into the Mandarin Spot annotation tool, and then press ‘annotate’. It will provide in-line pronunciation, pop-up translations when you hover over the words, as well as an English translation.
- Tong Wen Tang: A browser plugin for Firefox, Chrome andSafari: A browser plugin that converts a whole website into either Traditional or Simplified.
- Convert between Chinese Character, Pinyin, and unicode
- Chinese Sentence Pronunciation: This tool allows you to convert a Chinese text into Mandarin (standard Chinese) speech and download as MP3 file.
- Chinese (simp) Text-to-Speech Service
- IMTranslator plugin for Firefox users: Listen to web pages with Text To Speech (TTS). Just follow the following steps: Step 1: Just highlight some Chinese text; step 2: right click on the page and select ImTranslator Tools > ImTranslator TTS; step 3: then select Chinese from the Language drop down menu; step 4: click on Say It button.
Additional tools for learning Chinese:
- Chinese Characters Practice Sheet generator
- AarchChinese.com Tools:Very useful tools both for the learners and Chinese Language Educators. But to fully take advantage of this websites, some usage of the tools require membership.
- Online Chinese Input System
- Chinese Handwriting Input
- Chinese Flashcards
- Free Online Chinese Seal Generator
- Chinese Editing and Polishing Service
- Pinyin Tools (Including converter to change Chinese pinyin number into tone mark)
- Convert between Chinese Character, Pinyin, and unicode
- Vocabulary List Generator
- Online Chinese Input System
- Chinese Handwriting Input
- Chinese Flashcards
- Free Online Chinese Seal Generator
- Chinese Editing and Polishing Service
- Find out which animal of the zodiac you belong to
Chinese Pronunciation
Videos on Chinese Pronunciation
- Yoyo Chinese Pinyin Chart
- Practice on Chinese Pronunciation by UCSD
- Pinyin Table (Archchinese.com)
Chinese Characters & Writing:
- Learn Chinese Radicals and Characters 学部首和汉字
- Learning Lotus Project: This website contains useful visual-based learning materials for Chinese radicals, vocabulary, idioms, etc.
- Learning Radicals (including three Radical Sets): Here are the downloadable first Radical Set with details info about each radical:
- Radical Set I Color:Download PDF
- Radical Set I B&W:Download PDF
- Learning Radicals (including three Radical Sets): Here are the downloadable first Radical Set with details info about each radical:
- Vivid Chinese : This website also provides visual image and detailed description
- Chinese Practice Sheet Generator_With Stroke Order
- Chinese Characters Practice Sheet generator
- Stroke Animation and Dictionary (ArchChinese.com)
- Radicals (ArchChinese.com)
- Popular Chinese Characters Videos
- Chinese Characters in Pictures
- 天天学中文:Learn a Chinese Character a Day
- Animated Chinese Characters (By Xie, Tianwei) The animation of stroke order for Chinese characters.
- 2500 汉字繁简对照 (Contrasting the Traditional Characters with the Simplified)
- FanJian Traditional-Simplified Chinese Character Tutor 繁簡自通 (By University of California, Berkeley) An online program for learning simplified and traditional characters. Learners can study by themselves by doing online drills. Good for classroom use of self study.
- Chinese Radical Names (By Xie, Tianwei) Several lists of the names of Chinese radicals. Date: 2003
- Chinese Character FAQ (By Harbaugh, Rick) Frequently asked questions and answers about Chinese characters
- Simplified characters corresponds more than two traditional characters 單個簡體字對應至少兩個繁體字的現象 A list of simplified characters that corresponds to more than two traditional characters.
- Sou Wen Jie Zi 搜文解字:古文字的世界 (By Academia Sinica) A web site introducing Chinese ancient script. (in Chinese language)
- Calligraphy of Masters (By Pei, Minglong) A collection of Chinese calligraphy masterpieces and information about calligraphy. A good portal to Chinese calligraphy information.
- Chinese Character Writing Sheets (Use one of the following two templates to generate blank Chinese Character Worksheets) 汉字书写练习方格纸 Chinese Character Writing Sheet (with boxes)
- Chinese Character Practice Sheet Generator
- Chinese Flashcards–Learn How to Write and Read Chinese
- The following provides worksheets for the textbook called “Practical Chinese Readers”, which we do not use for our course, but they have basic vocabularies that appear in “Integrated Chinese.”
《实用节奏汉语》 Practical Rhythmic Chinese
《实用汉语课本》(第一册)Practical Chinese Readers Book I
《实用汉语课本》(第二册)Practical Chinese Readers Book II
Dictionaries
- Chinese-English Dictionaries中英英中字典
- Zhongwen: A Chinese-English Popup Dictionary
- Perapera Chinese Pop-Up Dictionary: Find the right one suitable for your browser and device. After installing: Put your mouse over any Chinese words on a webpage and it gives you the pronunciation and definition.
- Line Dictionary Chinese to English: you can use a on-line pen to write the word you don’t know know how to pronounce.
- Chinese English Dictionary–Arch Chinese: It will show you the stroke order of each character you look up and also give you the pronunciation.
- Chinese Etymology
- Chinese-English Dictionary
- Chinese-English-Pinyin Dictionary (Search with English, Pinyin, or Chinese characters. This one shows you the stroke orders )
- Chinese-English Word Dicitionary/
- WordReference (for bilingual dictionary): WordReference.com provides free online dictionaries for Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, German and more. It also includes audio pronunciations and forums for your questions.
- Chengyu Dictionary:An English Dictionary of Chinese Idioms
- Chinese-English Chinese Idioms Dictionary at Standard Mandarin
- 成语词典(Dictionary for Idioms)
- 汉典
- Get a Chinese Name
Chinese and Foreign Movies and TV shows
- Watch Free Chinese Movies 看中国电影
- Watch Chinese TV Drama Series 看中国电视剧
- www.tudou.com
- www.pptv.com
- www.pps.tv/
- www.youtube.com (type “Chinese movies” )
- Freemoviesub: Free Download – Korean Drama, Taiwan, China, Japan, Running Man, Anime, TV Show, Tv Series and Movie with English subtitle and Indonesia. Update Every day
- Zhongwen Movies 中文电影
- Sockshare.net: Free on-line movies
The best Chinese Radio to Listen to: Radio Taiwan International (RTI)
广播剧 (Novels) (Listen to Novels performed over the radio)
Don’t miss out on these wonderfully performed novels over the radio! What a nice way to do your chores while strengthening your Chinese listening ability and enjoying a Chinese novel! Chinese novels is a great way to gain insights into Chinese culture as well.
Top Ten websites to watch TV drama for free on line :
More websites to watch Chinese drama:
- HDfree
- yodrama (Watch Chinese drama with English subtitles)
- dramafever (Watch Chinese dramas–Full Episodes, with English subtitles)
Chinese News
News on China (in English)
- New York Times on China 纽约时报中文网 (Click on the article you are interested, and then click on “中英对照” for the both English and Chinese)
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The Financial Times (Chinese edition) (Contains articles in both English and Chinese)
- BBC News on China
- The Diplomat: Read the Diplomat, Know the Asia Pacific
- Reuters on China 路透中文網
- The China Times (Daily, the Global Edition)
- China News on SINA English
- Xinhua 新华网
- China.org.cn
- China Daily 中国日报网
- Global Times
- The Epoch Times (on China)
- Epoch Times 大纪元
- People’s Daily
- Shanghai Star 上海英文星报
- Shanghai Daily 上海日报
- China Military Online 中国军报
- China News Service Website 中新网
Chinese news in Chinese:
- New York Times on China 纽约时报中文网 (Click on the article, then on “中英对照” for the both English and Chinese)
- The Financial Times (Chinese edition) (Contains articles in both English and Chinese)
- BBC 中文网
- World Journal 世界日报
- China Times 中国时报电子报
- E Business Review 商业评论网
- China News 中国新闻网
- 新唐人全球新闻
- Google 新闻
- Nddaily 南都报
- Sing Tao 星岛日报
- Sina 新浪博客
- Epoch Times 大纪元
- FT中文网-全球财经精粹
- Ming Bao 明报网站
- Ming Bao Weekly 明报周刊
- Hinet 新闻网 (In Traditional Chinese)
- BBS.Huanqiu.com 环球论坛
Watch TV in Chinese (including news)
Watch Chinese News in Videos in English
- CNTV中央网: CCTV News (中国中央电视台 英語新聞頻道)
- CCTV News (中国中央电视台 英語新聞頻道) is an English-language news channel owned and operated by China Central Television (CCTV / 中国中央电视台).
- More Resources on Chinese News: On-line Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers
Chinese Magazines
- Learn Chinese through Magazine Articles 读杂志学中文
- All the Chinese Megazines 所有中文雜誌列表
- Yes 杂志:横跨台湾、大陆最大的免费杂志在线阅读平台
- 乐读网: 青年文摘在线阅读/读者在线阅读/意林在线阅读
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- 5 Popular Chinese Magazines You Should Read
- Top 10 Most Popular Magazines in China读者 (dúzhě)
- 瑞丽服饰美容 (ruìlì fúshì měiróng) (Rayli Fashion and Beauty)
- 菁kids (jīng kids)
- 中国国家地理 (zhōngguó guójiā dìlǐ) (China National Geography)
- 三联生活周刊 (sānlián shēnghuó zhōukān)(Life Week)
- 知音 Zhiyin
- 半月球 Banyutan
- 青年文摘 Qingnian Wenzhai: Recommended articles in this megazine
- 新周刊 New Weekly
- 南风窗 Nanfeng Chuang
- 财经 Caijing
- 家庭 Jiating (Chinese: 家庭)
- 意林 Yi Lin意林:一则故事改变一生!——《意林》杂志合订本在线阅读
- Taiwan Panorama 光华杂志
- 天下杂志
Chinese Culture
- Cultural China
- China-Window.com: Best Way to China
- Chineseculture.about.com
- China Culture 中国文化网
- 中国国学网--华人的精神家园 (in Chinese)
Classical & Modern Literature
- Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center_Ohio State University
- A Chinese Text Sampler (An Annotated Collection of Digitized Chinese Texts for Students of Chinese Language and Culture)
Popular Chinese Websites
Sites Popular within China
Sites Popular for Chinese Living Abroad
Installing Chinese Language into Android
Electronic Resources on China/East Asia
- Academia Sinica
Traditional and electronic collections on China studies, information on current research - National Central Library
Access to library catalogs and databases - The China WWW Virtual Library
Descriptions of and links to a wide range of resources dealing with China - Chinese Electronic Resources (for Chinese Studies Researchers: Most of these databases are continuing subscriptions and can only be accessed from the Asian Reading Room in Library of Congress).
Foreign Language Scholarship Programs
On-Line Courses
Here are three major websites that provide MOOC (Massic Open Online Courses:
Chinese MOOCs(Massive Open On-line Courses)
Below provides free on-line courses related to China and Chinese Language courses:
- Fsi-Language-Courses.org (including information on free on-line school courses)
- Provost Academy Ohio
- Edx.org: Free on-line courses provided by top universities such as HarvardX, MITX, Beijing University,etc.
- Learn Mandarin Chinese: Start Talking with 1.3 Billion People
- Chinese Characters for beginner 汉字from Peking University. Welcome to “Chinese Characters for beginner”! This is an elementary course on learning Chinese characters. Together, we will start from the basic element of Chinese characters
- Basic Mandarin Chinese – Level 1
- Basic Mandarin Chinese – Level 2
- 中级汉语语法 | Intermediate Chinese Grammar
- 中级商务汉语 – 入职与营销篇 Intermediate Business Chinese – Recruitment and Marketing
- Learn Chinese: HSK Test Preparation from Peking University. This specialization consists of three elementary language courses, aims to improve your Chinese language skills effectively and systematically.
- ChinaX: China’s past, present and future Through history, geography, philosophies, literature, politics, economy, art, and ecology.
- China and the Modern World
- Relics in Chinese History – Part 1: Agriculture and Manufacturing
- Relics of Chinese History – Part 2: Astronomy and Medicine
- Relics of Chinese History – Part 3: Writing System, Rites and Music
- Humanity and Nature in Chinese Thought
- Chinese Thought: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science – Part 1
- Chinese Thought: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science – Part 2
- China (Part 1): Political and Intellectual Foundations: From the Sage Kings to Confucius and the Legalists (There are 10 parts for the series)
- Coursera: Free on-line courses from around the world.
- A Free Coursera course on Chinese for Beginners by Peking University. You can sign up by clicking Chinese for Beginners by Beijing University
- Chinese.remembr.it (Free Mandarin Chinese Courses developed by FSI)
- Other free on-line courses (various subjects)are provided by the following
- ALISON (company)Introduction to the Chinese Language – First Contact
- LearnStreet
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, India
- OpenCourseWare
- Tufts OpenCourseWare
- TechChange
- Udacity
- Udemy
- Flooved
- Eliademy
- Khan Academy
- iversity
- MOOC
- Blended learning
- China Open Resources for Education
- Connexions
- Crash Course (YouTube)
- Curriki
- Flip teaching
- Free High School Science Texts, South Africa
- Marginal Revolution University
- National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, India
- Open access
- Open educational resources
- Open textbook
- OpenCourseWare
- Open.Michigan
- Wikiversity
- Merlot
Interface Language Learning (Find a virtual language partner and exchange languages)
Here you can find a language partner, a pen pal, and in some of these websites you can post your writing and receive free editing!
Websites for Language Exchange:
- Language Exchange Websites and Apps: Find a Virtual Language Partner
- The Mixxer–Language Exchange for Everyone
- My Language Exchange
- Italki
- Conversation Exchange
- Lang-8.com: A new language learning platform where native speakers correct what you write.
- Study More Chinese
- HelloLingo
Apps for Language Exchange: