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01

Free Learning/Studying Apps

5 RESOURCES
LingoDeer lingodeer.com

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 memrise.com

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.

Noodle Chinese noodlechinese.com

This free app helps users create smart flashcards to study Chinese vocabulary and practice handwriting, and it works offline.

Duolingo duolingo.com

Duolingo offers a completely free, gamified introductory Chinese course with bite sized lessons.

HelloChinese hellochinese.cc

HelloChinese is a free app teaching reading, writing, speaking and listening through game based lessons and native speaker videos.

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Free Chinese Dictionary/Translation Apps

4 RESOURCES
Dictionary Linguee linguee.com

This fast and free Chinese translation app works offline, is accurate and trusted by millions of people.

Hanzii hanzii.net

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.

The Free Dictionary By Farlex thefreedictionary.com

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.

Pleco pleco.com

Pleco is a free Chinese dictionary app with stroke order animations, handwriting and camera lookup, with optional paid add on dictionaries.

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Free Chinese Video Lessons

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Everyday Chinese youtube.com

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.

ChineseFor.Us youtube.com

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 .

Beginner Chinese Course youtube.com

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 .

Chinese Characters for Beginners youtube.com

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 .

Lower Intermediate Level Chinese Course youtube.com

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 .

Intermediate Level Chinese Course youtube.com

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 .

Learn Chinese with ChineseClass101.com youtube.com

This is a fun and helpful set of videos to add to your regular Mandarin Chinese language learning regimen.

Learn Cantonese with CantoneseClass101.com youtube.com

This is a fun and helpful set of videos to add to your regular Cantonese Chinese language learning regimen.

Gateway to Chinese Grammar Lessons goo.gl

The University of Texas at Austin compiled this collection of free video lessons to teach beginner Mandarin Chinese grammar.

Edupedia World youtube.com

The Edupedia World YouTube channel offers a very comprehensive set of free Chinese language video lessons. They currently offer courses in both and .

Mandarin Traditional youtube.com

The Edupedia World YouTube channel offers a very comprehensive set of free Chinese language video lessons. They currently offer courses in both and .

Mandarin Simplified youtube.com

The Edupedia World YouTube channel offers a very comprehensive set of free Chinese language video lessons. They currently offer courses in both and .

Learn Chinese with A, Z Chinese Video Podcasts atozchinese.com

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 Ancients Speak youtube.com

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.

ChinesePodTV youtube.com

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 Chinese with Emma youtube.com

Learn beginner Chinese with Emma by watching these cheerful videos.

Yoyo Chinese youtube.com

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.

Survival Mandarin youtube.com

Learn how to get by on your next trip to China by learning the basics of Mandarin from your teacher XiaoQian.

Seven days for Mandarin Pronunciation youtube.com

Learn all about Chinese pronunciation, tone, and Pinyin over the course of this 7, day course from your teacher XiaoQian.

Understanding Chinese Characters youtube.com

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.

DigMandarin digmandarin.com

In addition to a huge assortment of instructional videos, DigMandarin has a for beginners and a lot of articles about learning Mandarin.

basic Mandarin course digmandarin.com

In addition to a huge assortment of instructional videos, DigMandarin has a for beginners and a lot of articles about learning Mandarin.

Easy Languages Chinese youtube.com

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.

Easy Mandarin youtube.com

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.

Easy Cantonese youtube.com

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.

Learn Chinese Now youtube.com

Ben offers a huge selection of Chinese lessons on his YouTube channel. He suggests starting with if you are an absolute beginner.

The Basics of Mandarin youtube.com

Ben offers a huge selection of Chinese lessons on his YouTube channel. He suggests starting with if you are an absolute beginner.

Learn Mandarin Chinese for Beginners by Mawuood Academy youtube.com

This YouTube channel offers 113 concise Chinese lessons for beginners.

Mandarin Corner mandarincorner.org

Mandarin Corner offers free Chinese videos with downloadable PDF transcripts and pinyin for HSK vocabulary, conversation and slow Chinese practice.

Comprehensible Chinese with Tingting youtube.com

This free YouTube channel teaches Mandarin through slow, visually supported storytelling rather than grammar drills.

PeggyTeachesChinese youtube.com

This free YouTube channel has offered Mandarin and Taiwanese Chinese lessons, from basics to HSK prep, since 2009.

Grace Mandarin Chinese youtube.com

This free YouTube channel covers Mandarin pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary with both traditional and simplified characters shown.

Mandarin Blueprint youtube.com

This free YouTube channel teaches Mandarin character memorization and everyday conversation skills.

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Free Chinese Audio Lessons

33 RESOURCES
Beginners’ Chinese by The Open University open.edu

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.

Chinese Dialogues Podcast podcasts.coerll.utexas.edu

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.

Spotify open.spotify.com

Learn Mandarin Chinese by Complete Language Lessons, 12 free Mandarin lessons on Spotify.

Spotify open.spotify.com

Learn Cantonese by Complete Language Lessons, 10 free Cantonese lessons on Spotify.

Spotify open.spotify.com

Learn Chinese Step by Step, English Chinese Course, This free beginner Chinese course on Spotify features 25 lessons covering the basics.

Rhythmic Mandarin Chinese Volume 1 on Spotify open.spotify.com

230 Core Words and Phrases.

Rhythmic Mandarin Chinese Volume 2 (Album 1) open.spotify.com

and, 370 Core Words and Phrases.

(Album 2) on Spotify open.spotify.com

and, 370 Core Words and Phrases.

Rhythmic Mandarin Chinese Volume 3 (Album 1) open.spotify.com

and, 350 Core Words and Phrases.

(Album 2) on Spotify open.spotify.com

and, 350 Core Words and Phrases.

Rhythmic Cantonese Volume 1 on Spotify open.spotify.com

230 Core Words and Phrases.

Rhythmic Cantonese Volume 2 (Album 1) open.spotify.com

and, 350 Core Words and Phrases.

(Album 2) on Spotify open.spotify.com

and, 350 Core Words and Phrases.

Rhythmic Cantonese Chinese Volume 3 (Album 1) open.spotify.com

and, 350 Core Words and Phrases.

(Album 2) on Spotify open.spotify.com

and, 350 Core Words and Phrases.

Spotify open.spotify.com

Learn Chinese For Business Fast & Easy by Language Superstar, This podcast on Spotify has many hours of Chinese language instruction spread over 10 lessons.

ChinesePod.com chinesepod.com

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.

Popup Chinese popupchinese.com

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.

Popup Cantonese popupcantonese.com

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 slow-chinese.com

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.

I Love Learning Chinese ilovelearningchinese.com

This free podcast aims to teach Mandarin Chinese though very short and easy to digest “bite, sized” lessons.

Learn Chinese by VisualMandarin visualmandarin.com

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.

Learn Chinese by Clear Chinese clearchinese.com

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.

Learn Chinese Characters by Clear Chinese clearchinese.com

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.

Zhongwen Red zhongwenred.com

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.

Colloquial Chinese, The Complete Course for Beginners Book 1 and 2 routledgetextbooks.com

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.

Mandarin Bean mandarinbean.com

Mandarin Bean provides free graded reading and listening lessons with audio, pinyin and instant translations across HSK levels.

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Free Online Chinese Courses

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware ocw.mit.edu

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.

Chinese I ocw.mit.edu

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.

Chinese II ocw.mit.edu

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.

Chinese V ocw.mit.edu

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.

Chinese Vi ocw.mit.edu

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.

OpenLearn Beginners’ Chinese open.edu

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.

Chinese Courses by the University of Camb ridge Language Centre langcen.cam.ac.uk

These free Chinese courses are web, applications developed by the University of Cambridge.

Basic Chinese Course langcen.cam.ac.uk

This basic level course covers listening and reading skills while incorporating lots of activities to improve speaking and writing.

Intermediate Chinese Course langcen.cam.ac.uk

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.

Real Chinese Course by the BBC bbc.co.uk

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.

user guide bbc.co.uk

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.

pronunciation guide bbc.co.uk

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.

language notes bbc.co.uk

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.

games bbc.co.uk

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 Chinese, Start Talking with 1.3 Billion People edx.org

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.

Foreign Service Institute (FSI) Standard Chinese, A Modular Approach Resource Module livelingua.com

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.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 1 livelingua.com

Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 151 pages and 17 audio files with a running time of 5 hours and 24 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 2 livelingua.com

Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 339 pages and 43 audio files with a running time of 14 hours and 38 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 3 livelingua.com

Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 207 pages and 33 audio files with a running time of 10 hours and 59 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 4 livelingua.com

Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 214 pages and 28 audio files with a running time of 8 hours and 53 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 5 livelingua.com

Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 305 pages and 43 audio files with a running time of 13 hours and 47 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 6 livelingua.com

Includes 2 e, textbooks in PDF format with 292 pages and 43 audio files with a running time of 14 hours and 37 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 7 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 291 pages and 20 audio files with a running time of 6 hours and 42 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 8 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 280 pages and 20 audio files with a running time of 7 hours 5m.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Core Volume 9 livelingua.com

Includes 22 audio files with a running time of 7 hours and 25 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Optional Module 1 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 37 pages and 2 audio files with a running time of 48 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Optional Module 2 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 36 pages and 2 audio files with a running time of 39 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Optional Module 3 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 161 pages and 2 audio files with a running time of 46 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Optional Module 4 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 31 pages and 6 audio files with a running time of 2 hours and 41 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Optional Module 5 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 75 pages and 4 audio files with a running time of 1 hour and 44 minutes.

FSI Chinese Standard Basic Course, Optional Module 6 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 107 pages and 6 audio files with a running time of 1 hour and 58 minutes.

FSI Cantonese Basic Course Volume 1 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 410 pages and 30 audio files with a running time of 10 hours and 21 minutes.

FSI Cantonese Basic Course Volume 1 livelingua.com

Includes an e, textbook in PDF format with 412 pages and 15 audio files with a running time of 12 hours and 38 minutes.

Defense Language Institute (DLI) Chinese Language Basic Course livelingua.com

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.

Defense Language Institute (DLI) Chinese Language Intermediate Course livelingua.com

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.

Defense Language Institute (DLI) Chinese Language Advanced Course livelingua.com

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.

Defense Language Institute (DLI) Cantonese Language Basic Course livelingua.com

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.

Defense Language Institute (DLI) Cantonese Language Refresher Course livelingua.com

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.

Peace Corps Chinese Language Lessons livelingua.com

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.

United States Peace Corps peacecorps.gov

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.

Chinese In 9 Weeks, Introduction Course on Udemy udemy.com

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.

Speaking Chinese like a Native Speaker Fast Course on Udemy udemy.com

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.

Learn Mandarin Chinese Basics with Litao Chinese Course on Udemy udemy.com

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.

WTF Mandarin, Survival Conversational Chinese Course on Udemy udemy.com

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.

Marco Polo Mandarin Challenge Course on Udemy udemy.com

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.

NCM, Learn Chinese Common Mistakes and Useful Tips on Udemy udemy.com

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.

Chinese for HSK 1 coursera.org

Peking University offers this free to audit beginner HSK Level 1 course on Coursera with videos, vocabulary and quizzes.

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Other Free Chinese Resources and Services

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BBC Languages, Chinese bbc.co.uk

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.

Chinese Flashcards laits.utexas.edu

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.

Pitch Perfect Pinyin laits.utexas.edu

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.

Chinese Take, In laits.utexas.edu

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.

Chinese Word Order Exercises coerll.utexas.edu

The University of Texas at Austin created this interactive game for Chinese language students to practice word placement and sentence structure.

Cultural Interviews with Chinese, Speaking Professionals by UT Austin sites.utexas.edu

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.

Chinese Grammar Wiki resources.allsetlearning.com

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).

Zhongwen zhongwen.com

Learn about Chinese characters.

ChineseTools chinese-tools.com

This site has a lot of information about China and Chinese language learning resources.

Omniglot omniglot.com

This site specializes in providing information about languages and their alphabets and writing systems.

Pinyin Info pinyin.info

A guide to Pinyin, the official romanization system for Standard Chinese that is used in China.

Hacking Chinese hackingchinese.com

This website provides hundreds of free articles on the topic of “hacking” Chinese for free, as well as other Chinese language resources.

LanguageGuide.org languageguide.org

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.

Learn101 learn101.org

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.

Babadum babadum.com

A free language learning website that features fun flashcard games to help you brush up on your vocabulary.

Ielanguages.com ilanguages.org

This website offers free basic language learning text and audio instruction.

Polly Lingual pollylingu.al

This website offers some fun games, exercises and beginner level instruction with lessons that include text and audio.

Goethe Verlag goethe-verlag.com

This website offers 100 Chinese lessons for beginners, each with words, phrases and corresponding audio files.

Chinese Stories by BookBox youtube.com

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.

First Chinese Words by Oxford University Press fdslive.oup.com

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.

Digital Dialects digitaldialects.com

This website makes learning vocabulary fun with interactive games.

Hello World hello-world.com

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.

Loecsen loecsen.com

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.

Ilanguages ilanguages.org

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.

LangHub langhub.com

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.

Wu Chinese Language Survival Kit Module fieldsupport.dliflc.edu
Mandarin language quiz-tree.com

Quiz Tree, This website offers educational games and simple quizzes to test your skills and knowledge of .

Chinese characters quiz-tree.com

Quiz Tree, This website offers educational games and simple quizzes to test your skills and knowledge of .

I Love Languages Chinese Lessons ilovelanguages.org

This site provides 17 beginner Chinese lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include, and .

vocabulary ilovelanguages.org

This site provides 17 beginner Chinese lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include, and .

grammar tips ilovelanguages.org

This site provides 17 beginner Chinese lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include, and .

phrases ilovelanguages.org

This site provides 17 beginner Chinese lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include, and .

Yellowbridge Chinese Flashcards yellowbridge.com

This Chinese flashcards site makes a great study aid.

Written Chinese writtenchinese.com

Written Chinese offers a free dictionary, pinyin tone mark tool and a large library of free blog articles on reading and writing characters.

Sinosplice sinosplice.com

Sinosplice is a long running free blog with practical guides to Mandarin pronunciation, tones and grammar hurdles.

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Practice Chinese with Native Speakers

6 RESOURCES
Italki italki.com

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.

MyLanguageExchange.com mylanguageexchange.com

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.

Lang, 8 lang-8.com

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 hinative.com

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 rhinospike.com

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.

Chinese Forums chinese-forums.com

Chinese Forums is a free community where learners can ask native speakers and experienced learners questions about Mandarin and Cantonese.

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Chinese Language News and Media

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United Nations un.org

Live and On Demand news and media from the United Nations.

BBC bbc.com

The British Broadcasting Company provides news in Chinese.

Australia Plus australiaplus.com

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.

Google News news.google.com

Read the world news in Japanese with Google News.

Deutsche Welle dw.com

German broadcasting company DW provides news in both and .

Simplified Chinese dw.com

German broadcasting company DW provides news in both and .

Traditional Chinese dw.com

German broadcasting company DW provides news in both and .

VOA News voanews.com

Voice of America is an American broadcasting company that creates radio and television news in both and .

Cantonese voacantonese.com

Voice of America is an American broadcasting company that creates radio and television news in both and .

Mandarin Chinese voachinese.com

Voice of America is an American broadcasting company that creates radio and television news in both and .

Radio Free Asia News for China rfa.org

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.

CGTN cgtn.com

CGTN is China's international broadcaster, offering free Chinese and English news coverage.

China Daily Chinese Edition cn.chinadaily.com.cn

This is the Chinese language edition of China Daily and offers free native language news coverage for reading practice.

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Chinese Dictionaries and Pronunciation Guides

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WordReference wordreference.com

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.

Forvo forvo.com

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.

LearnWithOliver learnwitholiver.com

In addition to a dictionary, this site offers games and flashcards to support your Chinese Language learning.

Bab.La en.bab.la

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.

Line Dict ce.linedict.com

This is a trusted dictionary for Chinese / English word and sentence translations.

MDBG mdbg.net

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.

Jukuu context.reverso.net

This website functions as a search engine with a database of sample sentence that yields results in both English and Chinese.

Tatoeba tatoeba.org

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.

Talkify talkify.net

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.

Youdao Dictionary dict.youdao.com

Youdao is a free Chinese dictionary and translation tool widely used by learners and native speakers.

Arch Chinese archchinese.com

Arch Chinese is a free Chinese-English dictionary with stroke order animations, audio and printable character worksheets.

Chinese Pronunciation Wiki resources.allsetlearning.com

This free wiki thoroughly explains Mandarin pinyin, tones and tone change rules by learner level.

Dong Chinese Dictionary dong-chinese.com

This free dictionary shows character etymology, stroke order and example sentences alongside standard definitions.

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Free Chinese Language Textbooks

5 RESOURCES
Chinese Vocabulary archive.org
Chinese Grammar archive.org
New Practical Chinese Reader Vol 2 Textbook archive.org

This free scanned textbook continues the popular New Practical Chinese Reader series for post beginner learners.

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Free Chinese Language Tests

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Transparent transparent.com

Free online language level testing is offered by this language learning software company.

Purdue University iupui.edu
Sprachcaffe sprachcaffe.com

One of Europe’s leading language school organizations, Sprachcaffe offers free online language level testing.

Hanbridge hanbridgemandarin.com
Cactus Language cactuslanguage.com

This UK based language study abroad organization offers free online language level testing. Choose between the or language tests.

Mandarin languagecoursesuk.co.uk

This UK based language study abroad organization offers free online language level testing. Choose between the or language tests.

Cantonese languagecoursesuk.co.uk

This UK based language study abroad organization offers free online language level testing. Choose between the or language tests.

Language Trainers languagetrainers.com

This language training company offers free online language level testing. Choose between a and a .

Mandarin Chinese Character test languagetrainers.com

This language training company offers free online language level testing. Choose between a and a .

Mandarin Chinese Pinyin test languagetrainers.com

This language training company offers free online language level testing. Choose between a and a .

Goethe Verlag goethe-verlag.com

Free tests in 25 languages and 600 language combinations. You will find 200 Chinese vocabulary tests.

HSK Academy hsk.academy

HSK Academy offers free vocabulary lists, flashcards, audio and practice tests for HSK levels 1 through 6.

Chinese Test Service (HSK official) chinesetest.cn

This is the official HSK testing authority site and offers free downloadable sample question sets for every HSK level.