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健身常用英語單詞 (Gym vocabulary in English and Chinese)
This resource is meant for Chinese people who want to learn gym vocabulary in English, but it works even better for speakers of English who want to learn Chinese. Each vocabulary is translated from... Read more.
takesport.idv.tw
Olle Linge – about 9 years
ChineseSkill (game-based, task-driven app)
From their website: Features: - a game-based and structured curriculum optimized for English-speaking beginners; - compartmentalized contents designed for studying in fragmented times; - an... Read more.
chinese-skill.com
Olle Linge – about 9 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 – 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
Olle Linge – about 9 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 – about 9 years
Real spoken Chinese: "What are your plans for Chinese New Year?"
Watch and listen to people from different parts of China ask and answer the question "What are your plans for Chinese New Year?" Read more.
mandarinhq.com
BK – 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
Olle Linge – over 9 years
《冰冻星球》 Frozen Planet (纪实台 央视网)
Introduced by Rebecca [here](http://www.hackingchinese.com/extensive-listening-challenge-october-2014-wrapping-up/#comment-644909): I loved to watch this 2 part documentary called “冰冻星球” “Frozen... Read more.
jishi.cntv.cn
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Learn in Your Car: Mandarin Chinese (Henry Raymond Jr. on Spotify)
Recommended and introduced by Oscar Sjöberg [here](http://www.hackingchinese.com/extensive-listening-challenge-october-2014-wrapping-up/#comment-645716): The material is for beginners, like myse... Read more.
open.spotify.com
Olle Linge – over 9 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 – almost 10 years
Unlock Your Brain (app that quizzes you to unlock your phone, supports Chinese)
This app encourages you to learn Chinese each time you unlock your phone's screen. This is how the creator's described it to me: Unlock Your Brain now offers seven different languages in the app... Read more.
unlockyourbrain.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 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
ChineseTutor – almost 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 – almost 10 years
Three ways to improve the way you review Chinese characters
In this article, I discuss three things you can do to improve the way you review characters, mainly focusing on avoiding rote learning, time quality and making sure your study method really prepare... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Select and Speak (Text-to-Speech Chrome Extension)
Select and Speak uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech (TTS) to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk. This is excellent both for productivity and for added listening ... Read more.
chrome.google.com
Olle Linge – 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
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Improve Your Chinese With: Subtitles
Subtitles offer a way to get endless annotated Chinese audio for free. You use linked-up learning! This article on Chinese Boost includes some resources for people who are looking for subtitles in ... Read more.
chineseboost.com
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
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Viral one-minute Chinese sex ed video with English translation
"So there are these minute-long Chinese sex ed videos that’ve gone viral on the Chinese internet. I suspect they’re actually aimed at parents, but they’re funny and well done. Here’s a translation ... Read more.
chinahopelive.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
I really regret not studying Chinese sooner! (Mandarin Segments)
Many people say that they regret not starting learning earlier, but yet shy away from starting to learn now. This short blog post is spot on and describes the mentality of such people and why it's ... Read more.
mandarinsegments.blogspot.tw
Olle Linge – about 10 years
On the Character 革 (The World of Chinese)
The evolution of meanings behind the Chinese character 革, from the ancient meaning related to 'hunting', to it's main meaning of “to change”, and 'transformation', with an oftentimes usage on the t... Read more.
theworldofchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
On the character 性 (The World of Chinese)
When it comes to the Chinese word for sex, or 性(Xìng), avoid it in daily speech like you are a proper “sir” from the Victoria era. Defenders of decency might be disappointed to learn the original m... Read more.
theworldofchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 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 – about 10 years
Pinyin sort order (Pinyin News)
Ever wondered how words are sorted in Pinyin? Well, alphabetically is the first answer, but what about diacritic marks? What about tones? Read more.
pinyin.info
Olle Linge – about 10 years
“China’s tower of babel” and the language/dialect question. Again. (Sinoglot)
What's a dialect? What's a language? Are Mandarin, Cantonese and Wu different languages or are they dialects of the same language. The answer is that there is no answer, it depends. This is a short... Read more.
sinoglot.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
The Year of the Horse Chengyu (Sinosplice)
This post is about 马到成功, one of the idioms used to wish someone success in the year of the horse (it has other uses as well). John Pasden explains what it means and how to use it (and some things a... Read more.
sinosplice.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
15 Chinese Artifacts That Will Change How You Look at China (chinaSMACK)
Historical artifacts unearthed in China such as golf clubs, fashion accessories, toilet seats, toothbrushes, double-ended lesbian dildos and Google's Android? As usual, chinaSMACK provides parallel... Read more.
chinasmack.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Flashcard overflow: About card models and review directions
The question of how to design flashcards is faced by all learners who use them. What should you put on the front? What should you put on the back? Should you add single characters or whole words? O... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
How to Describe Medical Symptoms in Chinese (一步一个脚印)
In this blog post, Carl Gene Fordham goes through a long list of ways of describing different ailments and illnesses in Chinese. This is excellent if you happen to fall ill in China, but it's also ... Read more.
carlgene.com
Olle Linge – about 10 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 – about 10 years
Chinese Grammar Wiki
This is the best grammar resource available online. In essence, it's a collection of a number of resources (some of which are only available in Chinese) presented online and in English, neatly stru... Read more.
resources.allsetlearning.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!
For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a... Read more.
ted.com
Zoe – about 10 years
Visual Chinese Search
A search tool for finding visually similar Chinese characters. Input a Chinese character and see a list of other characters that look roughly the same. The tool also offers character decomposition ... Read more.
visualchinesesearch.com
Kevin Bullaughey – almost 7 years