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Mandarin resources

Postby Querneus » Sat Jun 11, 2016 6:17 pm

Courses

FSI/DLI courses

https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/languages/chinese.html
https://www.livelingua.com/project/fsi/Chinese/
http://fsi-dli.yojik.eu/

http://www.chineseclass101.com/
http://www.popupchinese.com/

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-101-chinese-i-regular-fall-2014/

Coursebooks
DeFrancis and Huang/Stimson
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... aa4b99c2ed

Subscription sites for learning Chinese
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... ed#p129596

Grammar

https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/

Pronunciation

http://forvo.com/languages/zh/
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/pronunciation/Main_Page

Reading

Understanding Chinese Characters (Vladimir Skultety)
https://www.youtube.com/user/theforeverastudent/
http://www.zhongwen.com/
http://marcopoloproject.org/
Simplified News http://www.thechairmansbao.com/
http://justlearnchinese.com/mini-novels/
http://pinyin.info/rules/index.html
Simplified literature http://mandarincompanion.com/
Sentence mining
http://www.jukuu.com/
http://ce.linedict.com/#/cnen/home
Drama vocabulary
https://languagequiz.viki.com

Multimedia

http://www.slow-chinese.com/
http://english.cntv.cn/learnchinese/
Radio Garden (Brun Ugle)
http://radio.garden/live/

Streaming TV
Kylin TV (not free) http://www.kylintv.com/kylintv/us/eng/home

https://www.dramafever.com/
http://www.tudou.com/
http://www.youku.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/sloppycheng

Tools

http://www.mandarintools.com/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/

Dictionaries
http://dict.cn/
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
Chengyu Dictionary
An english dictionary of chinese idioms
http://www.chinese-tools.com/chinese/chengyu/dictionary

SUBTLEX-CH http://crr.ugent.be/programs-data/subtitle-frequencies/subtlex-ch
These are the Chinese word frequencies discussed in the Plos ONE article of Cai & Brysbaert, which you find here (http://www.ugent.be/pp/experimentele-psychologie/en/research/documents/subtlexch/cai.pdf)

Popup dictionaries
Perapera Chinese popup dictionary http://www.perapera.org/
Zhongwen popup (Chrome)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde?hl=en
Zhongwen Chrome user guide: http://zhongwen-chrome.blogspot.com/
Zhong Wen popup Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhong-wen/

Other tools
Hanping (Android) http://hanpingchinese.com/
Pleco https://www.pleco.com/ (crush)
Skritter Chinese & Japanese characters, made fun (and not free)
https://html5.skritter.com/home
Tatoeba is a collection of sentences and translations. It's collaborative, open, free
http://tatoeba.org/eng
http://talkify.net/
Lang-8 http://lang-8.com/

Classical Chinese

Searchable and Archived Classical Chinese Texts https://chinalinks.osu.edu/c-links1/texts
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world: http://ctext.org/
Classical Chinese Literature Resources https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/resource_lit.chinese.html
Yasue A collection of calligraphy, paintings, and classical Chinese texts in traditional characters.
http://www.yasue.cc/hon-lo.html
The Online Index of Chinese Buddhism http://www.buddhiststudies.net/oicb.html#dictionaries
a primer in chinese buddhist writings http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/a-primer-in-chinese-buddhist-writings/
How and Why to Learn Classical Chinese http://tommazanec.com/blog/2017/06/14/how-and-why-to-learn-classical-chinese/

Collections of links

Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks contains annotated links to over six hundred China and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites.
https://chinalinks.osu.edu/
http://learningchineseonline.net/
http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/www/chinese.html
http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/chinese/resources/
http://www.hackingchinese.com/
http://digchinese.com/

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Credit: Rdearman

YangYang Cheng on YouTube
Online Chinese Character to Pinyin (Vocabulary List Builder)
Calibre
Learning Chinese is Fun (Episode 1)
Introduction to Chinese Characters
Chinese Frequency Lists
Online Flashcards Texas.edu
Chinese character stroke order rules
Chinese Dictionary Lookup
Coursera Online Chinese Course
Defense Language Institute Mandarin
Growing Up With Chinese
University Page which has LOTS of links to Chinese resources available on the Internet.

Credit: "ロータス"

Beginner:
Clozemaster
Chinese Grammar Wiki
汉语教程
CSLpod
HSK Standard Course
Chineseclass101

Intermediate:
Slow Chinese
UIowa Chinese Reading World

Reading sites:
http://www.61w.cn/ (stories)
https://www.kuaikanmanhua.com/ (comics)
http://www.haodoo.net/?M=hd&P=welcome (stories)
https://ac.qq.com/ (comics)
http://www.tom61.com/ (stories)
http://www.jjwxc.net/ (stories)
http://www.xigushi.com/index.html (stories)
http://tcfl.tingroom.com/read/sstory/ (stories)
https://mandarincorner.org/listen-to-au ... ranscript/ (stories/dialogues)
http://www.imandarinpod.com/hoola/index.php/podcasts (podcasts)
http://www.learningchinesethroughstories.com/ (stories)
http://readchinese.nflc.org/contents/menu-welcome.html (stories)
http://chinesereadingpractice.com/ (stories)
http://justlearnchinese.com/mini-novels/ (stories)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dporter/ ... er.html#ml (stories)

Television Shows in Mandarin
( Say It ) 好好说!慢慢讲! Episode 1
Say It Season II Ep 1
http://www.viki.com/tv Has a lot of Mandainr, Korean and other shows which have subtitles in just about every language.

Food shows:
李囯煌 -- 香港
Food Source 3 - Episode 01 (食在好源头 3 - 第01集)

Kids Shows
childrens stories with sub-titles
大耳朵图图

Collections of Materials
http://web.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/pdf/online2.htm
http://data.hskhsk.com/lists/ - HSK Vocabulary

How many words do you know?

"Test your receptive and productive vocabulary in different languages.

The vocabulary tests aim to assess participants' vocabulary knowledge on levels of 1000 words each. These levels are based on high-frequency vocabulary lists. The 5000 most frequent words of German, English, Spanish, Russian, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, and American English can be tested. The results indicate the corresponding reading levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR).

What percentage of the 5000 most frequent words have you mastered?"

http://www.itt-leipzig.de/static/startseiteeng.html
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby alexkelbo » Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:46 pm

The Skritter URL has changed to https://www.skritter.com.
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby reineke » Wed Mar 07, 2018 5:56 pm

First lessons in Chinese (1871) by Yates
http://www.archive.org/details/firstles ... 00yaterich
Chinese without a teacher (1872) by Giles
http://www.archive.org/details/chinesew ... 00gilerich
Chinese made easy by Brouner
http://www.archive.org/details/chinesem ... 00brourich
Easy Lessons in Chinese, Or, Progressive Exercises to Facilitate the Study of that Language ... (1842) by Samuel Wells Williams
http://www.archive.org/details/easyless ... 00willgoog
A Mandarin primer (1911) by Baller
http://www.archive.org/details/mandarinprimer00balluoft
Chinese without a teacher, being a collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect, with a vocabulary (1901) by Giles
http://www.archive.org/details/chinesew ... 00gileuoft
Introduction to literary Chinese by Brandt
http://www.archive.org/details/introduc ... 00branuoft
A handbook of the Chinese language (1863) by James Summers
http://www.archive.org/details/handbook ... 00summiala
Chinese phonetic system and language : (English translation) (1922)
http://www.archive.org/details/chinesep ... 00lichrich
Colloquial Chinese by Whymant
http://www.archive.org/details/colloqui ... 00whymiala
Two years' course of study in the Chinese language (1913) by Robert Bryan
http://www.archive.org/details/twoyears ... 00bryarich
Brief introduction to the study of the Chinese language (1915) by Pettus
http://www.archive.org/details/briefint ... 00pettrich
Cantonese for beginners : learning Cantonese through self-taught word-for-word method, with characters, pronunciation, tones and combinations ([19--]) by Jiang
http://www.archive.org/details/cantones ... 01jianuoft
A Cantonese phonetic reader by Jones
http://www.archive.org/details/cantones ... 00joneuoft
How to speak Cantonese: fifty conversations in Cantonese colloquial; with Chinese character, free and literal English translations, and romanised spelling with tonic and diacritical marks, &c (1902) by Ball http://www.archive.org/details/howtospe ... 00ballrich

https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21482
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby reineke » Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:03 am

Confucius Launches Chinese Online Test and Programs

Language Magazine
January 2, 2018

The Confucius Institute and XuetangX have launched a platform for students around the world who want to learn Chinese and pass the HSK proficiency tests. The courses are available at http://www.chinesetest.cn. Beginners can register and access the course HSK Tsinghua Chinese: Start Talking with 1.3 Billion People.

The most attractive part of this course is the fact that it is closely connected with the HSK tests. There are exercises for the tests at the end of each unit. After completing the program, students who get more than 60% will receive an HSK (Level I and II) score report issued by Chinese Testing International (CTI).

HSK is China’s only standardized test of Chinese language proficiency for nonnative speakers. The new six-level HSK test was launched by Hanban in an effort to better serve Chinese language learners. It is the result of coordinated efforts by domestic and foreign experts from different disciplines including Chinese language teaching, linguistics, psychology, and educational measurement.

According to the president of XuetangX, Li Chao, “For months, our company and the Confucius Institute have been working together with the University of Tsinghua to enable the study of Mandarin in a simple and modern format. Research shows that students listen to lectures more attentively if they have been given a problem or task to solve before the lecture. In this regard, the structure that most MOOCs have—short video lectures alternating with assignments and quizzes—is perfect.”

XuetangX is a leading platform for lifelong learning, with more than nine million registered users.

https://www.languagemagazine.com/2018/0 ... -programs/
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby BellyKather » Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:44 am

Good Mandarin resources
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby Migla » Sat Aug 01, 2020 12:39 pm

How about MOOC courses such as the ones available for free on http://www.edx.com? Or the China equivalent, https://mooc.chinesecio.com/mooc_list.html?classify=5&m_lan=1, also free.

The second one has standalone courses and also courses that go with specific textbooks, such as "Contemporary Chinese" by Wu Zhongwei and "HSK Standard Course 1" by Jiang Liping. HSK Standard course is also the book on which https://chinesezerotohero.com/courses/ course is based on, plus this tends to be the book of choice in many Confucius Institutes. Youtube has another free course based on these series, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvs-5fETl5K2FJbhaX4ch3oMmVA6bDpCG. He has done the course for books 1-4.

I am myself quite fond of "Integrated Chinese", a textbook of choice in many US schools. The best part of this material is the workbook, which gives the student an ample amount of practice (answers are available as well for those doing self study). It is great to use together with this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f2aDYY7Tf0&list=PL5i5h8a93hWbn_I7yRjZYBszEHTgIFGi2

Hope this helps.
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby samothin » Sat Jan 09, 2021 12:42 am

Hi, I'd like to tell you guys about Mediacorpdrama. They uploaded part of their collection in YouTube. Most of their dramas have soft Closed Captions in both English and Chinese (Simplified). However, this is more useful if you're interested in Mandarin with Singapore / Malaysian accent.
https://youtube.com/c/mediacorpdrama
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby jaapgrolleman » Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:42 am

I'd like to contribute the videos of GoEast Mandarin, an online Chinese school. They have a YouTube series in which they show spoken Chinese. Each episode shows a word; sample phrases and then an explanation.

Playlist with +200 episodes
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby IntrepidLearner » Sun Dec 26, 2021 6:15 pm

Many courses, grammars, and readers can be found in the following post.
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Re: Mandarin resources

Postby fenchel » Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:11 pm

Regarding the reference in the first post to this course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-languages/21g-101-chinese-i-regular-fall-2014/
To me it just looks like bibliographic information, I can't find a way to actually access it. Did something change in the meantime? Maybe I am just blind.
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