Apps

A fully comprehensive electronic dictionary. Pleco is probably the first app you should get when studying Chinese. It enables you to load in flashcards, and you can look up words by drawing characters, typing characters, typing pinyin, or typing english.

Free online dictionary with LINE messenger! 

• 3,000,000 headwords,

• 150,000 usage examples

• includes sources from Collins

More comprehensive than Pleco, and includes an abundance of usage examples.

Chinese immersion with graded news.

The Chairman’s Bao® (TCB) boasts a library of over 9,000 lessons, with over 200,000 global users, TCB also features in more than 400 teaching institutions around the world through popular Classroom packages.

Lessons are suitable from beginner to post-advanced levels of study and everything is created with students and teachers in mind.

Du Chinese is a powerful tool that makes learning Chinese simple and effective. Built-in features let you practice your Chinese naturally, with assistance provided as you need it.

ChinesePod offers fun, practical Mandarin lessons using real spoken language—not boring textbooks. With over 4,000 short audio and video lessons, you can learn anytime, anywhere, on any device. Just 5–10 minutes a day makes learning easy and effective.

As the name suggests, this is a way of learning Chinese through podcast episodes. A majority of the lessons need a subscription to access, but there are still a good number of free lessons.