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I wanted to share some resources to help you learn Chinese online
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I wanted to share some resources to help you learn Chinese online
I’m always looking for ways to learn Chinese… Here are some of my favorite websites to learn Chinese with!
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Read the full grammar guide on this website: http://www.chinese-grammar.com/
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Use AllSetLearning’s chinese grammar guide for specific grammar I notice later when studying chinese, that I still don’t grasp: https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/
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For sounds, pronunciation and tones. I greatly recommend dong-chinese’s full free course on pinyin then tones, especially using their tone trainer. Its my favorite beginner pronunciation guide. It also considers tone sandhi (when tones change pronunciation in certain positions). I would recommend going to youtube afterward to look up tones more in depth, tone sandhi, and any pronunciation sounds you still aren’t clear on after this course. Dong-chinese pinyin guide: https://www.dong-chinese.com/learn/sounds/pinyin . Dong-chinese tone trainer: https://www.dong-chinese.com/learn/sounds/pinyin/toneTrainer . Dong-chinese sentence sounds: https://www.dong-chinese.com/learn/sounds/pinyin/speaking
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Use anki (ankiweb.net is free, memrise website/app are free), and find a common words deck. Even better if you use a common words in sentences deck (like anki Spoonfed Chinese). To add decks to anki, you need to install the computer program and add them on the computer, then you can study the decks on your phone on the app or ankiweb.net website. For memrise, go to the website in a web browser to add any user-made decks, then the decks will be on the website or app for you to study. I just used these: https://app.memrise.com/course/374/chinese-words-by-spoken-frequency-0-1000/ https://app.memrise.com/course/376/chinese-words-by-spoken-frequency-1001-2000/ Later I used Spoonfed Chinese for a while.
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Use something to start learning hanzi. Lots of options. I loved some books (which weren’t free – one was Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters, book covers 800 basic hanzi with great mnemonics for meaning and tone/sound, after that I jumped into reading). I would also recommend just looking up articles about radicals – changed my life simply learning hanzi often have one radical implying sound, which helps me guess new word’s spelling when looking them up. Free anki deck with mnemonics, only for meaning: simplified: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1219175376 traditional: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1881616382 Websites also have hanzi information, like hanzicraft: https://hanzicraft.com/
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Pleco dictionary app. The base version is free. Use it for dictionary and reading. You can look up a ton of words, or go to clipboard reader and paste in any chinese text and it will: dictate the passage aloud, read any specific word you click, give you the definition of any word within. Its a fantastic app. I recommend buying the 20ish dollar one time fee upgrade – it includes an even Bigger expanded dictionary, and the Reader feature. The Reader can open up websites, most documents, and allow you to read them in Pleco. I use the click-dictionary and dictate passage feature in Pleco Reader constantly, its how I’ve been reading novels. The Reader part itself was I think $10 as a one time purchase, and well worth it for me. I don’t remember if the base version has flashcards, but mine does and so i could also theoretically sentence mine, save anything in this app as a flashcard, import other people’s decks they’ve shared online, etc.
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Other misc dictionaries as desired. I have Baidu Translate app, works great for sentences, bigger phrases, paragraphs, and when I only have audio/am speaking out a phrase I heard. I also have Google Translate, because when I’m watching shows it can recognize the hanzi I draw into it the easiest of all my apps. Then if google gives me a weird word translation, I can paste the text it recognized I drew into a different app for a better translation. Likewise: install the chinese keyboard on phone/computer so you can look things up easier.
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Now you have the internet. Immerse. Look up Chinese dramas and donghua on youtube, viki, iqiyi, etc. Look up novels – if you type a novel you know of’s chinese name, plus ‘小说在线’ (novel online), or plus ‘txt,’ you will easily find a ton of webnovels. If you have no idea What you want to read/watch? Go to mydramalist.com, or novelupdates.com, and browse genres you’re interested in to find things you might like. Also you may find some things you like have a chinese version – How To Get Away with Murder is chinese dub/subbed on netflix, Pride and Prejudice has a english/chinese novel parallel text online, Sherlock Holmes is online in english/chinese, etc. I started getting into chinese to read untranslated novels, so mostly I look up novels and read them with Pleco Reader tool. Or watch shows in chinese with chinese subs, now that I’ve gotten interested in so many.
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When you’re ready, there’s a ton of audiobooks online too. Ximalaya app and website (https://www.ximalaya.com/) have immense amounts of audiobooks for free. Youtube has a lot. Once you know the chinese name of a book, simply googling ‘name’ plus ‘有声读物’ (audiobook) will usually find you an audiobook if one exists.
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There are also a ton of structured courses if you would prefer a structured study plan already made. There are ones on Coursera for free, a lot of the “Basic Mandarin” and “Intermediate Mandarin” ones are good, as are HSK 1-6 ones. If you belong to a college, university, or local library, check their e-library. There are usually a Ton of free language textbooks you can read through the library, so you could pick one you like and work through it.
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