China Resources

Read Mandarin through News.

The Chairman's Bao is the world's most comprehensive news-based graded reader fro students of Chinese. Used in 150+ of the world's most prestigious schools and universities.

Yoyo Chinese contains 5 structured, comprehensive 6-month courses with 800+ videos with flashcards and quizzes.

OCR
Look up unknown Chinese words ‘live’ using your device’s camera, or tap-lookup words in a still image

Handwriting

Look up words by drawing them on the screen; very accurate and tolerant of stroke order mistakes.

Dictionaries

Huge and growing collection of licensed dictionary databases, including titles from Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, and many other major publishers.

Audio

Recordings from two different native speakers for 34,000 Mandarin words, with speech synthesizer (for sentences) and Cantonese support as well.

Flashcards

Insanely powerful / customizable system, making it extremely easy to add new flashcards from dictionary entries or import pre-made vocabulary lists.

Many say learning Chinese is hard. We disagree. Chineasy makes learning Chinese easy, and it’s a ton of fun! Chineasy, the award-winning methodology, revolutionizes how people learn Chinese, and help everyone recognize characters through quirky, memorable pictures with the mission to bridge the gap between the East and the West. Chineasy's simple visual approach is underscored by a rigorous educational methodology. “My goal is to make the Chinese language more approachable to non-native speakers. A Chinese character can have complicated strokes, but with Chineasy, our visual design allows you to associate the meaning of the word with the image,” says ShaoLan, founder and creator of Chineasy.

Culture Yard is an award-winning language school and culture center based in a cozy hutong courtyard in the heart of Beijing. Established in 2009 as a community for serious language learners, Culture Yard offers Chinese classes from the beginner level to HSK 6.

We use a fresh approach to teaching that spreads a love of and excitement for the language and culture. In addition to language courses, Culture Yard hosts cultural events and workshops, including excursions, movie nights, mahjong, Chinese calligraphy, and more.

www.cultureyard.net

There are five tones in Mandarin Chinese. When it comes to coverage of China, Sixth Tone believes there is room for other voices that go beyond buzzwords and headlines to tell the uncommon stories of common people.Through fresh takes on trending topics, in-depth features, and illuminating contributions, Sixth Tone covers issues from the perspectives of those most intimately involved to highlight the nuances and complexities of today’s China.

ChinesePod sets out to revolutionize the way you learn Chinese by letting you immerse in the native-speaking environment at will. We provide a “cloud library of language resources” and self-contained lessons for subscription with live back-up from our global teaching team.

Skritter is a tool for learning to read and write characters on your mobile phone or computer. It combines handwriting with powerful spaced repetition algorithms. The program determines what characters and words you ought to review and then allows you to write them directly on the screen, correcting you if you make mistakes. Learning characters has never been this addictive!

Auto-highlights what you don’t know, mouse-over definitions, HSK / frequency data!

A web based English to Chinese dictionary with Mandarin pinyin, from the maintainers of CEDICT — learn Chinese faster with MDBG!

Hacking Chinese is your guide to learning Mandarin, covering how to learn listening, speaking, reading and writing, plus words and characters.

Olle Linge is a Swedish polyglot with a rich amount of resources about approaches to studying Chinese

Anki is a free and open-source spaced repetition flashcard program. "Anki" is the Japanese word for "memorization". The SM2 algorithm, created for SuperMemo in the late 1980s, forms the basis of the spaced repetition methods employed in the program

“Why China?” is a question we have all been asked and struggled to answer at some point. Is it the intriguing history? The lifestyle? The food? The nightlife? Or a mix of it all?

One day, we found ourselves commiserating to each other about the difficulty of explaining our life in China when we had the idea - why not take the chance and tell our story, the way it is, to the rest of the world?

And just like that, Ychina was born.

We don’t proclaim to be experts - how could we be? This is simply our experiences, our adventures in China. And we hope that by bringing you into the conversation, we can begin to craft an answer to the enigma: “Why China?”

For a realistic perspective on China and world travel from an American father and a Chinese mother with two half-Chinese daughters go to Laowhy86 every Wednesday 11am PST/1pm EST https://www.youtube.com/laowhy86