Reading
- The Chairman’s Bao: news articles in simplified and traditional characters sorted by HSK level. Spoken dialogue, wordlists, and grammatical explanations also provided.
- https://www.duchinese.net/: new app that is similar to Chairman’s Bao but on iphone. All texts are read by native speakers, so good for listening as well.
- http://chinesereadingpractice.com/
- http://app.decipherchinese.com/: similar to Chairman’s Bao and Du Chinese.
- http://readchinese.nflc.org/?page=home
- http://blah.me/
- http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/34090-best-source-for-chinese-ebooks/page-5
Listening
- Chinesepod: the one that started the language podcast explosion over 10 years ago. Thousands of lesson, transcripts, etc. but behind a paywall.
- Easy Mandarin. Simple questions to native speakers on the streets of Taiwan.
- https://www.zerotohero.ca/#/en/zh/youtube/browse – youtube videos in Chinese with transcripts and English translations. Like fluentu, but free.
- subs2srs Chinese pre-made anki decks
- subs2srs tutorial: An excellent tutorial made by Britt vs Japan.
- https://downsub.com: download subtitles from a variety of platforms (youtube, viki, etc.). These subs can then be used to make flashcards in subs2srs!
- tubeoffline.com: download videos and subs for many different sites.
- Graded Watching: You’ve heard of graded readers. What about gradedTV shows? A very promising site that I need to investigate further.
- Mandarin Corner: Youtube channel and website. Intermediate dialogues at a native pace with native speakers. Too bad it doesn’t have downloadable soft subtitles or making anki cards with SUBS2SRS would be easier.
- https://hanyufanting.com – collects videos on youtube, posts transcripts, etc.
Watching
Grammar
- Chinese Grammar Wiki
- https://mandarinfriend.wordpress.com: Chengyu and grammar explanations.
- https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/index.html
Textbook Resources
- DeFrancis series
Characters and Writing
- Wiktionary: character decompositions, spotty etymologies, defintions and usage in multiple dialects and languages.
- http://www.hanzicraft.com: characer decompositions
- Hanzi Grids: Great for practicing writing.
Wordlists and Analysis
- Anything by wibr. For example: https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/44336-graded-readers-by-the-numbers-characterswords-page-count/page/4/?tab=comments#comment-438883
- https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-most-common-chinese-words-characters-and-components-for-language-learners-and-teachers/
Blogs
- https://www.keepingupwiththewangs.com/
- Good Explanation for how he uses Chinesepod.
- https://www.chinesethehardway.com/
- Blog from the creator of Chinese Text Analyser and HanziGrids
- https://chinese-simplified.com/
- This article introduced me to language with netflix
- Sinosplice: John Pasden of Chinesepod, Mandarin Companion, and All Set Learning.
- Hacking Chinese
- http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/
- http://www.zhtoolkit.com/posts/
- http://mandarinsegments.blogspot.ca
- https://mandarinfriend.wordpress.com/
- https://www.chineseboost.com/
- https://eastasiastudent.net/
- http://justlearnchinese.com
- http://chinesehacks.com/
- http://pinyin.info/news/
- http://eurolinguiste.com/mandarin/
Forums
- Chinese
- http://chinese-forums.com: the best forum for Chinese learners and one of the best language learning forums by far.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage
- http://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/1120/resources-for-learning-mandarin-chinese/1325#1325
- General
Tools
- Pleco
- Frequency Lists
- Chinese Text Analyzer by Imron
Just for Me
- https://www.guavarama.com/books/: how to purchase books, which ones are good, etc. from the perspective of teaching a child Chinese. Very useful.
- https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010794095?sloc=reprod_t_4 – A collection of Roald Dahl books in traditional Chinese. I wish I could find these as ebooks…
- https://www.pubu.com.tw/ebook/196703 – good site for Taiwan ebooks in Traditional Chinese.
- After DeFrancis:
- http://www.amazon.com/review/RUWQEWPOG8AOJ/ref=cm_cr_rev_detmd_pl?ie=UTF8&asin=0300010834&cdForum=Fx130SH0K3259FE&cdMsgID=MxT7JOAI98OUR1&cdMsgNo=4&cdPage=1&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=TxWL1F9E05BPL1&store=books#MxT7JOAI98OUR1
- http://nba.hupu.com/
- To try out
- Tutors/Speaking
- To try out
- http://www.books.com.tw/products/0010523053
- Ordering books
- http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/36203-chinesese-comicsmanhua-taiwan-and-hong-kong/
Graveyard
- Slow Chinese: a podcast that includes long transcripts of its dialogues. Most are extended monologues or stories.