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Websites
Websites
1. Chinese-tools.com
This website consists of 31 Lessons, divided into 4 sections. Learn how to write, read & speak Chinese with minimal effort with the help of this website. All the lessons are in audio, which will teach you Chinese words & grammar. The conversational model of explaining words & phrases have been used, which turns out to be very productive.
There are lessons dedicated to Chinese characters & phonetics, and almost all situations have been covered if a conversation were to strike up.
2. Chinese-ilab.com
Chinese-ilab.com provides language lessons in Chinese for beginner and elementary level learners. Both courses have video slides and audio support. The module gives you lessons on Chinese tones and basic conversations. You can take quizzes and play games to test your Chinese and enhance your knowledge. There is a vocabulary section available where you can learn new words.
3. Elanguageschool.net
Elanguageschool.net is a resource to learn how to read, write and speak Chinese. The Chinese language course is divided into 5 modules, which educates you about Chinese Words/Phrases, Characters, tutorial videos, Chinese History, and Culture. There are 50 lessons under Words & Phrases, which introduces you to Chinese translations of Words & Phrases. 10 video tutorials are available as well for a detailed study of the Chinese language. The History & Culture section takes you on a journey to China, its language and origin.
4. BBC Chinese
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/
BBC Chinese offers you some mini-guides for Chinese pinyin, tones and characters, you can watch videos of real conversations, you can take tests, and you can also play funny character games.
5. Livemocha
http://www.rosettastone.com/lp/sbsr/livemocha/?prid=livemocha_com
Livemocha focuses on learning a foreign language by courses and communications. You can pick up a Chinese course, submit your answers, and chat with the members whose native language is Chinese.
6. Ting (listening)
http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/
Ting (听) means to listen, and this site allows you to learn Chinese by listening to lots of materials, such as conversations, stories, poetry, and so on. You can listen to Chinese words, phrases and sentences on different topics, such as animals, time, weather, and so on.
7. Lang-8 (writing)
http://lang-8.com/
Lang-8 focuses on writing in a foreign language. You can write something in Chinese that you are learning, and then native speakers will correct your writing.
8. English-Chinese Vocabulary Quizzes
The Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) is China’s national standardized test to assess the Chinese language proficiency of non-native speakers, and English-Chinese Vocabulary Quizzes offers you many quizzes for every level test of HSK.
9. Courses Internet Polyglot
http://www.internetpolyglot.com/
The website Courses Internet Polyglot is to learn vocabulary in multiple languages. You can select the Chinese-English language course, and choose the lesson you want to learn, then you can learn the Chinese words with meaning, pronunciation and images.
10. Learn Chinese Everyday
http://www.learnchineseeveryday.com/
Learn Chinese Everyday mainly teaches you Chinese words. You can learn the word by its meaning, pronunciation, common words/phrases, and sentences. You can listen to all the words, phrases and sentences.
11. Rocket Languages
https://www.rocketlanguages.com/chinese/learn/
Rocket Languages is a comprehensive language learning tool, but its real strength lies in its audio lessons and pronunciation practice. These features will get you ready to have real-life conversations with native Chinese speakers. The pronunciation tool allows you to focus on getting your pronunciations to sound native, another one of Rocket Chinese’s major advantages.
12. Arch Chinese (writing)
http://www.archchinese.com/
Arch Chinese is a great web-based tool for learning to write Chinese characters, as well as for learning radicals and mastering stroke order. There’s an animated tool that shows you how to write individual characters, while worksheets provide guidance on effective learning methods and help you build good writing habits. One big advantage to Arch Chinese is that you can use the pre-made vocabulary lists, so you don’t have to spend a lot of time figuring out what to learn. Arch Chinese’s radical list lays the groundwork for learning and understanding Chinese characters in a way that’s more than just rote memorization. It also has a tone drill app that lets you practice tones both individually and as part of multi-character words.
http://www.freechineselessons.com/
Starting with the very basic things, Free Chinese Lessons is open to anyone with no basic Chinese. Each course has instruction on phrase pronunciation, character recognition, and writing.
14. Chinese Class 101
https://www.chineseclass101.com
This is language learning program that teaches Mandarin Chinese Language through dynamic video and audio instruction. There is Over 1490 Audio and Video Lessons. The free Chinese lessons released every week to provide beginner and intermediate students with all the tools they will need to effectively learn both spoken and written Chinese.
Online Dictionary
Online Dictionary
1. Nciku
http://ce.linedict.com/dict.html#/cnen/home
Nciku is an online dictionary for learning Chinese characters, words or phrases, writing, pronunciation and sentences. You can also learn conversations, and join the community and communicate with other people.
2. MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
On MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary website, you can learn Chinese characters and their meaning, writing and pronunciation, take some Chinese character quizzes, create character flashcards, and use the dictionary on your mobile phone.
3. YellowBridge
https://www.yellowbridge.com/
The YellowBridge dictionary is the best dictionary due to the sheer number of features it offers. For each character you look up, you’ll get a stroke order animation, a list of different possible pronunciations and meanings, character frequency ranking and a whole host of other information. There’s also a thesaurus, and you can look up the etymology of characters and words. There are also example words for all of the characters. You’ll find flashcard functionality, lessons about stroke order and HSK study guides.
4. Tatoeba
https://tatoeba.org/eng/
Tatoeba is another great source of Chinese example sentences. It’s already got a huge database of sentences, and more are being added every hour. The thing that makes Tatoeba stand out though is that it’s more than a 1 - 1 list of translations; it’s a web of translations. It’s also a free, community-based project. This means that if there’s something you don’t know how to express in Mandarin, you can just add it in English and wait for someone to come along and translate it.
5. Jukuu
Jukuu is a website offering Chinese-English example sentence in abundance.
Apps
Apps
1. Chinese Skill: For learning with games (Free)
Chinese Skill is free app that’s great for beginners. The design and interface is really cute, featuring a panda, of course. Also, the content is designed according to categories like food, numbers and colors—so you get the learning in a rather systematic way while having some fun.
2. Standard Mandarin: For the Pinyin and the tones (Free)
This app specializes in getting your pronunciation right. Chinese is a tonal language, so mispronunciations may put you in a more embarrassing situation than using the wrong grammar. This is free to download and is a good in-depth guide to speaking Mandarin Chinese correctly.
3. FluentU: For real-world immersion ($10/month for the basic plan)
FluentU is one of the most unique apps among the others featured because it takes a huge collection of real-world Chinese videos—like music videos, commercials, news and inspiring talks—and turns it into personalized and engaging language learning experiences.
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