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This app is a fantastic and structured introduction to Chinese, featuring HD audio by native speakers. Users can learn in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Pinyin., and it works offline.
Memrise is a really fast, fun, and free language learning app/website that is sure to get you hooked. There is a visual flashcard component that also incorporates audio from a community of native speakers. Memrise uses spaced repetition and is really effective at drilling vocabulary and phrases into your memory.
This free app helps users create smart flashcards to study Chinese vocabulary and practice handwriting, and it works offline.
This free app uses lessons, games, and pictures to teach foreign languages to beginners. Although Internet Polyglot is far from a standalone language learning tool, it is a useful supplement to help you to learn and retain vocabulary.
This fast and free Chinese translation app works offline, is accurate and trusted by millions of people.
Hanzii is the full, featured Chinese English dictionary that utilizes camera, voice, and handwriting recognition. This popular dictionary app makes looking up Chinese vocabulary, characters, and grammar easy and helps users to practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The free version contains ads and can’t be used offline.
This dictionary and thesaurus app provides millions of precise definitions, drawn from the most trusted industry publications and sources, including idioms, slang, and etymology of words. The Free Dictionary works offline and offers additional functionality like voice search, sharing, games, word of the day, and more.
EverydayChinese’s YouTube Channel teaches authentic Mandarin Chinese to a large subscriber base. The experienced, native Chinese, speaking teachers aim to teach you to speak Chinese like a native. The channel covers material that is beneficial to all Chinese language learners, from covering the basics for absolute beginners to delving into advanced material for more seasoned speakers.
The Chinese For Us YouTube Channel boasts a huge subscribership and a ton of video instruction. It covers beginner to intermediate, level material with neatly organized playlists. Check out their, and .
The Chinese For Us YouTube Channel boasts a huge subscribership and a ton of video instruction. It covers beginner to intermediate, level material with neatly organized playlists. Check out their, and .
The Chinese For Us YouTube Channel boasts a huge subscribership and a ton of video instruction. It covers beginner to intermediate, level material with neatly organized playlists. Check out their, and .
The Chinese For Us YouTube Channel boasts a huge subscribership and a ton of video instruction. It covers beginner to intermediate, level material with neatly organized playlists. Check out their, and .
The Chinese For Us YouTube Channel boasts a huge subscribership and a ton of video instruction. It covers beginner to intermediate, level material with neatly organized playlists. Check out their, and .
This is a fun and helpful set of videos to add to your regular Mandarin Chinese language learning regimen.
This is a fun and helpful set of videos to add to your regular Cantonese Chinese language learning regimen.
The University of Texas at Austin compiled this collection of free video lessons to teach beginner Mandarin Chinese grammar.
The Edupedia World YouTube channel offers a very comprehensive set of free Chinese language video lessons. They currently offer courses in both and .
The Edupedia World YouTube channel offers a very comprehensive set of free Chinese language video lessons. They currently offer courses in both and .
The Edupedia World YouTube channel offers a very comprehensive set of free Chinese language video lessons. They currently offer courses in both and .
These lessons are available for 3 levels, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. The lessons, available either on iTunes as a video podcast or on the A to Z Chinese website, focus on practical conversations and each video features a 1, 2 minute conversation between Chinese people.
The underlying theme of these video lessons is to “Learn Chinese from the Wisdom of the Ancients”. Brought to you by Learn Chinese with Kitty, this video series provides instruction on both the Chinese language and culture.
These Chinese video lessons are a must, watch. ChinesePod boasts of having the largest library of Chinese language learning content online and they do a really great job of consistently adding new, high, quality videos.
Learn beginner Chinese with Emma by watching these cheerful videos.
Learn Chinese from your enthusiastic and experienced teacher, Yangyang Cheng. She teaches Mandarin Chinese from an English speaker’s point of view by referencing English tones to speed up the learning process.
Learn how to get by on your next trip to China by learning the basics of Mandarin from your teacher XiaoQian.
Learn all about Chinese pronunciation, tone, and Pinyin over the course of this 7, day course from your teacher XiaoQian.
This 100 episode video Chinese learning program was produced by Chinese broadcasting company, CCTV and is aimed at beginners. Hosted by Charlotte MacInnis (a.k.a Ai Hua), each 15, minute episode teaches three common phrases that are introduced in short dramatized skits in addition to featuring content about Chinese culture and history. Growing up Chinese is geared towards teenagers, but is certainly valuable for Chinese learners of all ages.
This 24, part beginner Mandarin Chinese language lessons series was broadcast on CCTV during the Beijing Olympic Games. Host Aurora Carlson focuses on teaching short Chinese phrases that are simple to learn and practical for everyday use.
This 100, episode video Chinese learning program was produced by Chinese broadcasting company, CCTV and is aimed at intermediate, level learners. This Chinese language learning program hosted by Mark Rowswell (a.k.a Da Shan) touches on travel, food, and culture in addition to the Chinese language. Each 15, minute episode teaches key words and phrases to build your conversation skills while also providing in, depth information about the travel destination.
This 38, episode video Chinese learning program was produced by Chinese broadcasting company, CCTV and is aimed at intermediate, level learners. This Chinese language lessons program hosted by Mark Rowswell (a.k.a Da Shan) depicts real, life situations and teaches very useful phrases while providing thorough explanations for sentence structure and such.
This 41, episode video Chinese learning program was produced by Chinese broadcasting company, CCTV and is aimed at intermediate, level learners. This Chinese language lessons program hosted by Mark Rowswell (a.k.a Da Shan) uses short dramatized skits to introduce sports, related dialogue, vocabulary, and phrases which is accompanied by analysis and explanation from the host.
Happy Chinese, This video learning program was produced by Chinese broadcasting company, CCTV and is aimed at advanced, level learners. It spans 2 seasons and a couple of hundred episodes. Season 1, and Season 2, both feature English and Chinese subtitles although the content is all spoken in Chinese.
Happy Chinese, This video learning program was produced by Chinese broadcasting company, CCTV and is aimed at advanced, level learners. It spans 2 seasons and a couple of hundred episodes. Season 1, and Season 2, both feature English and Chinese subtitles although the content is all spoken in Chinese.
This YouTube channel is dedicated to sharing information about the history, beauty, and complexity of Chinese Characters, created by a polyglot named Vladimir who researches Chinese character history and etymology in his free time.
In addition to a huge assortment of instructional videos, DigMandarin has a for beginners and a lot of articles about learning Mandarin.
In addition to a huge assortment of instructional videos, DigMandarin has a for beginners and a lot of articles about learning Mandarin.
These YouTube videos are the work of a non, profit project which uses lighthearted street interviews as a method to teach languages. Each video has a topic and the host asks questions to native Chinese speakers on the street based on the theme. Each video contains subtitles in both Chinese and English. They offer and videos.
These YouTube videos are the work of a non, profit project which uses lighthearted street interviews as a method to teach languages. Each video has a topic and the host asks questions to native Chinese speakers on the street based on the theme. Each video contains subtitles in both Chinese and English. They offer and videos.
These YouTube videos are the work of a non, profit project which uses lighthearted street interviews as a method to teach languages. Each video has a topic and the host asks questions to native Chinese speakers on the street based on the theme. Each video contains subtitles in both Chinese and English. They offer and videos.
Ben offers a huge selection of Chinese lessons on his YouTube channel. He suggests starting with if you are an absolute beginner.
Ben offers a huge selection of Chinese lessons on his YouTube channel. He suggests starting with if you are an absolute beginner.
This YouTube channel offers 113 concise Chinese lessons for beginners.
This thorough beginner Chinese course by the Open University will provide an introduction to Chinese language and culture and give you a great feel for Mandarin Chinese. You will learn vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and transcripts can be downloaded for all episodes.
This podcast was created by The University of Texas at Austin to help beginner Chinese language learners improve listening comprehension skills. The 72 dialogues presented in this free podcast are interesting but practical, in that they relate to everyday situations you are likely to experience in a Chinese speaking environment. You can download full transcripts for all dialogues with English translations, and with both traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
Learn Chinese with Spotify, This course covers a lot of ground and provides good Chinese instruction with lots of great vocabulary and useful expressions.
Learn Mandarin Chinese by Complete Language Lessons, 12 free Mandarin lessons on Spotify.
Learn Cantonese by Complete Language Lessons, 10 free Cantonese lessons on Spotify.
Learn Chinese Step by Step, English Chinese Course, This free beginner Chinese course on Spotify features 25 lessons covering the basics.
Learn Chinese For Business Fast & Easy by Language Superstar, This podcast on Spotify has many hours of Chinese language instruction spread over 10 lessons.
This ChinesePod podcast is for “newbies” but they offer access to a collection of free audio and video Chinese lessons from various learning levels on their website. ChinesePod lessons are well organized, taught by enthusiastic teachers and can be studied in any order because they are self, contained. Another free podcast is also available on which uses discussions of current events and politics in China and Taiwan during 2014 as a way to teach vocabulary and phrases.
and, Popup offers a ton of lessons divided into five levels, Basic, Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced. With your free membership, you can access all lessons online.
and, Popup offers a ton of lessons divided into five levels, Basic, Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced. With your free membership, you can access all lessons online.
Slow Chinese is a podcast consisting of personal narratives by native Chinese people, who are not professional teachers, but rather people who want to share authentic Chinese culture with the world. It is read at a slow speed and is a good listening comprehension exercise for language learners who have already acquired Mandarin Chinese language skills.
This free podcast aims to teach Mandarin Chinese though very short and easy to digest “bite, sized” lessons.
This free podcast teaches Chinese in a straightforward way. Visit their website to find more learning materials for beginner through advanced levels. A number of videos, exercises, and quizzes are available for free.
This is a simple introductory course that includes 15 units, each with a group of lessons containing simple Mandarin words and phrases. All sentences are written in Chinese characters, English and Pinyin, and have corresponding audio in MP3 format.
This useful Chinese tutorial is geared towards beginners and teaches how to write Chinese characters and find them in a dictionary. Many examples of single characters and compounds will be found throughout this introductory course.
This free website creates bite, sized Chinese lessons through podcasts. Yep!Chinese divides their content into three categories, Learn (core lessons), Discover (extra learning resources) and Explore (latest Chinese news) and organizes all lessons by learning level so it’s easy to jump to content that matches your ability.
This teaching website helps you learn Mandarin with over a hundred free Chinese lessons, which all feature audio by native Chinese speakers and PDF transcripts that can be downloaded.
This collection of audio files, each a few minutes in length, provides concise and clear Chinese language instruction for beginners. These free audio lessons were made to accompany the Colloquial Chinese, The Complete Course for Beginners textbooks (Book 1 and Book 2), which are aimed at teaching Chinese to beginners in a practical way to prepare them to effectively communicate with confidence in everyday situations.
MIT offers a ton of free classes, several of which are in Chinese. Chinese I, VI courses teach modern standard Chinese (Mandarin) and are a great place to start for beginners. If you already have a strong foundation in Chinese, you can move on to a number other free MIT Chinese courses.
This undergraduate university level course was taught in 2014 at MIT. It covers the basics of the modern standard Chinese (Mandarin) and does not require any prior experience with the language.
This undergraduate university level course was taught in 2015 at MIT. It builds on the progress made in the Chinese I course and works on developing simple, practical conversations and improve reading and writing skills.
This undergraduate university level course was taught in 2005 at MIT. It builds on the progress made in the Chinese II course and works on improving conversation, reading and writing skills.
This undergraduate university level course was taught in 2006 at MIT, and following Chinese III, it rounds out the four, semester foundational level of the MIT undergraduate Chinese program. Chinese IV will improve upon conversation abilities, reading, listening, writing and grammar skills as well as increase cultural knowledge.
This undergraduate university level course was taught in 2003 at MIT. This course should be taken following the completion of Chinese IV and focuses on Chinese culture and society, in addition to furthering Chinese language skills, and is taught in Mandarin.
This undergraduate university level course was taught in 2003 at MIT. This course builds on the content of the Chinese V course and is also taught in Mandarin. It continues the study of Chinese culture and society while focusing on reading, discussion, and conversational practice.
The Open University is a UK based, online university providing free educational resources. This free Beginners’ Mandarin Chinese course teaches language basics and also touches on Chinese society and culture.
These free Chinese courses are web, applications developed by the University of Cambridge.
This basic level course covers listening and reading skills while incorporating lots of activities to improve speaking and writing.
This intermediate level course focuses on listening comprehension, grammar and vocabulary expansion. Transcripts for the audio recordings are available in Chinese characters with the option to use Pinyin, and are accompanied by the translation, language notes and comprehension activities.
This free Chinese language course features 10 short units that will provide a great introduction to Chinese. Each unit contains a slideshow that introduces key language, provides tips on pronunciation and grammar, includes cultural notes, a challenge and video clips from the Real Chinese series. A, and are also available. Play the interactive Chinese language to learn Chinese tones and characters.
This free Chinese language course features 10 short units that will provide a great introduction to Chinese. Each unit contains a slideshow that introduces key language, provides tips on pronunciation and grammar, includes cultural notes, a challenge and video clips from the Real Chinese series. A, and are also available. Play the interactive Chinese language to learn Chinese tones and characters.
This free Chinese language course features 10 short units that will provide a great introduction to Chinese. Each unit contains a slideshow that introduces key language, provides tips on pronunciation and grammar, includes cultural notes, a challenge and video clips from the Real Chinese series. A, and are also available. Play the interactive Chinese language to learn Chinese tones and characters.
This free Chinese language course features 10 short units that will provide a great introduction to Chinese. Each unit contains a slideshow that introduces key language, provides tips on pronunciation and grammar, includes cultural notes, a challenge and video clips from the Real Chinese series. A, and are also available. Play the interactive Chinese language to learn Chinese tones and characters.
This free Chinese language course features 10 short units that will provide a great introduction to Chinese. Each unit contains a slideshow that introduces key language, provides tips on pronunciation and grammar, includes cultural notes, a challenge and video clips from the Real Chinese series. A, and are also available. Play the interactive Chinese language to learn Chinese tones and characters.
Tsinghua University, a prominent Chinese university, offers this free Chinese language course on edX. The beginner course will teach basic language skills to navigate everyday situations in Mandarin and uses Pinyin (the standard system of romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese) to facilitate learning. This is a self, paced course with a 6, week duration.
This module must be studied as a prerequisite to the FSI Chinese Standard Basic Language Course below. It covers pronunciation and romanization, numbers, classroom expression and time and dates. Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 100 pages and 18 audio files with a running time of 6 hours and 33 minutes.
Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 151 pages and 17 audio files with a running time of 5 hours and 24 minutes.
Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 339 pages and 43 audio files with a running time of 14 hours and 38 minutes.
Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 207 pages and 33 audio files with a running time of 10 hours and 59 minutes.
Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 214 pages and 28 audio files with a running time of 8 hours and 53 minutes.
Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 305 pages and 43 audio files with a running time of 13 hours and 47 minutes.
Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 292 pages and 43 audio files with a running time of 14 hours and 37 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 291 pages and 20 audio files with a running time of 6 hours and 42 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 280 pages and 20 audio files with a running time of 7 hours 5m.
Includes 22 audio files with a running time of 7 hours and 25 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 37 pages and 2 audio files with a running time of 48 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 36 pages and 2 audio files with a running time of 39 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 161 pages and 2 audio files with a running time of 46 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 31 pages and 6 audio files with a running time of 2 hours and 41 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 75 pages and 4 audio files with a running time of 1 hour and 44 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 107 pages and 6 audio files with a running time of 1 hour and 58 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 410 pages and 30 audio files with a running time of 10 hours and 21 minutes.
Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 412 pages and 15 audio files with a running time of 12 hours and 38 minutes.
This Chinese language course is part of the language learning program developed by U.S. Department of Defense as a means of training employees for foreign assignments. As a result, a good portion of the material focuses on military, related content, however, on the whole, there is a lot of value for all. Includes 19 e, textbooks in PDF format with 431 pages and 150 audio files with a running time of 45 hours and 19 minutes.
This Chinese language course is part of the language learning program developed by U.S. Department of Defense as a means of training employees for foreign assignments. As a result, a good portion of the material focuses on military, related content, however, on the whole, there is a lot of value for all. Includes 17 e, textbooks in PDF format with 602 pages.
This Chinese language course is part of the language learning program developed by U.S. Department of Defense as a means of training employees for foreign assignments. As a result, a good portion of the material focuses on military, related content, however, on the whole, there is a lot of value for all. Includes 10 e, textbooks in PDF format with 132 pages.
This Cantonese language course is part of the language learning program developed by U.S. Department of Defense as a means of training employees for foreign assignments. It contains 8 volumes and was designed to train native English language speakers to obtain Level 3 proficiency in comprehension and speaking and Level 2 proficiency in reading and writing Cantonese. Includes 22 e, textbooks in PDF format with 4386 pages and 52 audio files with a running time of 29 hours and 48 minutes.
This Cantonese language course is part of the language learning program developed by U.S. Department of Defense as a means of training employees for foreign assignments. This course is intended to be used as a refresher course for those who have completed an intensive Cantonese class and would be considered an intermediate or advanced level course. Includes 9 e, textbooks in PDF format with 1564 pages and 64 audio files with a running time of 37 hours and 27 minutes.
This language learning material was developed by the to train their volunteers prior to sending them around the world on their missions. Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 26 pages and 15 audio files with a running time of 44 minutes.
This language learning material was developed by the to train their volunteers prior to sending them around the world on their missions. Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 26 pages and 15 audio files with a running time of 44 minutes.
This course aims to teach students to start reading and writing, gain a good understanding of the basics of the language and begin to have simple conversations in Mandarin Chinese. This beginner level course features 78 lectures and 3.5 hours of video.
This beginner level Chinese course provides students with the tools to enable them to understand over 58% of daily Chinese conversations and to communicate with a genuine Chinese accent. This course features 27 lectures and 1 hour of video.
This free mini, course includes four lessons that cover about 100 very basic vocabularies and grammar points. Includes 30 Mandarin Chinese lectures and 42 minutes of video.
This brief course teaches survival Mandarin Chinese in 40 minutes to absolute beginners. It uses the “WTK (watch, try, flaunt)” approach, meaning “Watch the videos, Try the audio files, Flaunt your Chinese.” Includes 10 Mandarin Chinese lectures and 40 minutes of video.
This course requires some basic knowledge of Chinese and covers pronunciation, Chinese characters, grammar, Chinese culture and more. Includes 15 Mandarin Chinese lectures and 1 hour of video.
This course requires some basic knowledge of Chinese vocabulary and phrases. Its goal is to help you in your language learning journey by teaching you how to avoid common mistakes and providing useful tips. Includes 28 Mandarin Chinese lectures and 40 minutes of video.
The BBC Chinese Language website is a treasure trove of wonderful resources and information. It is high, quality, comprehensive and provides a lot of intelligently presented and produced materials. All BBC language learning pages were “archived” a few years back due to cost, cutting measures, which means they are no longer adding new information or updating the pages. However, you should have no problem accessing the existing information.
The University of Texas at Austin created this fun flashcard game to make learning and practicing Chinese vocabulary engaging and effective. This fun program has varying difficulty levels and includes English translations, Pinyin and Chinese characters for all words and phrases.
This is another fabulous and free Chinese learning resource created by the University of Texas at Austin. Pitch Perfect Pinyin is a two, part interactive website that aims to help beginner Chinese students learn and improve pronunciation, which is a fundamentally important step for beginners. The website is beautifully designed and includes tons of great information on tones and Pinyin with plenty of audio examples and practice exercises.
This fun and free website was created by The University of Texas at Austin as a tool to help beginner level Chinese students improve listening comprehension skills. It provides a ton of interactive, vocabulary building exercises.
The University of Texas at Austin created this interactive game for Chinese language students to practice word placement and sentence structure.
In addition to touching on various cultural issues and business topics, these interviews with Chinese executives provide a variety of examples of natural spoken Chinese, which is helpful to language learners. This free educational resource is brought to you by the University of Texas at Austin.
The Chinese Grammar Wiki is an extremely thorough and well, organized guide to Chinese grammar which has thousands of articles devoted to comprehensive explanations and examples. This is a very valuable, free resource which is organized by level from beginner (A1, A2), to intermediate (B1, B2) and advanced (C1).
This site has a lot of information about China and Chinese language learning resources.
This site specializes in providing information about languages and their alphabets and writing systems.
A guide to Pinyin, the official romanization system for Standard Chinese that is used in China.
This website provides hundreds of free articles on the topic of “hacking” Chinese for free, as well as other Chinese language resources.
This program helps students who only know one form of Chinese character by giving them a way to learn the other form, whether it be traditional or simplified. This is a self, study program with explanations, exercises, and drills which prepare the student to read both traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
Explore the world of Mandarin Chinese by learning an abundance of vocabulary in a sound integrated, animated guide. After learning the vocabulary you can take part in games to test your comprehension.
This website features free beginner lessons to guide you through learning Chinese, step by step, starting with the Alphabet, moving on to grammar, vocabulary, and phrases, and finally offering simple quizzes to test your progress. These lessons are a basic introduction to the language and have images, text, and audio.
A free language learning website that features fun flashcard games to help you brush up on your vocabulary.
This website offers free basic language learning text and audio instruction.
This website offers some fun games, exercises and beginner level instruction with lessons that include text and audio.
This website offers 100 Chinese lessons for beginners, each with words, phrases and corresponding audio files.
Cartoons have always been a wonderful asset to language learning, particularity for children. These animated children’s stories are great because the viewer can read along with the narration, which is shown on, screen as “Same Language Subtitles (SLS).” Each word is highlighted in time with the audio, which helps with comprehension and retention.
The Oxford First Words book series is a language learning tool for children. This First Words book features over 400 words in Chinese and the interactive online interface allows you to click on the pictures to hear the audio in Chinese along with the English translations. Though this book is intended for children, the fact is that it is a very effective tool for adults to build vocabulary as well.
This website makes learning vocabulary fun with interactive games.
Hello World has created hundreds of free language learning games and activities that cater to the way children learn best. The goal is to teach languages using cognitive immersion and to keep the process fun in order to increase learning potential. Approximately 1, 300 vocabulary words are introduced over 70 different categories.
Loecson offers a free mini, course consisting of fun lessons that provide a basic introduction to Chinese with the help of text, audio, simple illustrations, and quizzes to test your progress. You will learn high, frequency vocabulary words and commonly used phrases relating to 17 themes which are relevant to everyday life.
This site is designed to teach Mandarin Chinese with free vocabulary, phrases, grammar, and flashcards while focusing on highly used words and phrases necessary for everyday living.
This site has several sets of Chinese language lessons with text, audio and video files. LangHub offers beginner, intermediate, advanced, travel, expat and business Indonesian lessons for free.
Quiz Tree, This website offers educational games and simple quizzes to test your skills and knowledge of .
Quiz Tree, This website offers educational games and simple quizzes to test your skills and knowledge of .
This site provides 17 beginner Chinese lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include, and .
This site provides 17 beginner Chinese lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include, and .
This site provides 17 beginner Chinese lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include, and .
This site provides 17 beginner Chinese lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include, and .
This Chinese flashcards site makes a great study aid.
A community of over 2 million language learners that facilitates free language practice with native speakers. You simply exchange time teaching your native language for time learning a foreign language, making it mutually beneficial and free.
This online language learning community connects you with other learners so that you can practice speaking in your second language with a native speaker and vice, versa.
This free network is a nice tool to support your language learning. Native speakers are available to make corrections to your text and provide feedback. In return, you provide help to others.
HiNative is an app brought to you by the creators of Lang, 8 that allows you to ask questions to native speakers from around the world using your smartphone. HiNative was created to be used alongside Lang, 8 and is different from Lang, 8 in that it focuses on a Q&A type of learning while Lang, 8 is a journal writing experience.
RhinoSpike is an interesting website that connects language learners from all over the world allowing them to exchange audio files to help improve pronunciation skills. It allows you to submit text that you would like to hear read aloud by a native speaker, and in turn, you receive the audio file. In exchange, and to speed up the process you can, in turn, provide audio files in your native language for other learners.
Watch Live broadcasts from China’s main television network.
Australia Plus is an International news service brought to you by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) which offers Australian news in Chinese, Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesian, English and Tok Pisin.
Voice of America is an American broadcasting company that creates radio and television news in both and .
Voice of America is an American broadcasting company that creates radio and television news in both and .
Voice of America is an American broadcasting company that creates radio and television news in both and .
RFA is dedicated to providing reliable and responsible news reporting for countries where accurate and complete news reports are not available. They offer news for China, Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma, always in local languages and dialects.
There is no need for a Chinese, English dictionary if you have WordReference. Featuring good translations of words and solid definitions, this site also has helpful forums where Chinese speakers from around the world contribute to explaining subtle nuances or more obscure words.
This crowd, sourced site is a great tool to help with pronunciation as it allows you to listen to words and phrases spoken by native speakers.
In addition to a dictionary, this site offers games and flashcards to support your Chinese Language learning.
This “language portal” boasts 44 dictionaries for 28 languages, as well as a wealth of other language learning resources, such as helpful articles, games and quizzes, verb conjugations and phrase books.
This is a trusted dictionary for Chinese / English word and sentence translations.
In addition to being a go, to dictionary for schools around the world, this website offers a lot of other resources like flashcards, quizzes and more.
This website functions as a search engine with a database of sample sentence that yields results in both English and Chinese.
Tatoeba is a large, crowdsourced database of sentences and translations. This free resource allows you to search for a word and get results showing that word in sentences with translations.
This free, multilingual website is a very interesting and valuable resource that allows you to listen to text in foreign languages. Simply insert a URL into the search field on Talkify and it will automatically detect the language and read the text of that website aloud in a natural sounding voice.
Free online language level testing is offered by this language learning software company.
One of Europe’s leading language school organizations, Sprachcaffe offers free online language level testing.
This UK based language study abroad organization offers free online language level testing. Choose between the or language tests.
This UK based language study abroad organization offers free online language level testing. Choose between the or language tests.
This UK based language study abroad organization offers free online language level testing. Choose between the or language tests.
This language training company offers free online language level testing. Choose between a and a .
This language training company offers free online language level testing. Choose between a and a .
This language training company offers free online language level testing. Choose between a and a .
Free tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations. You will find 200 Chinese vocabulary tests.