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Thank you Furio for this amazing list. I especially like Yep!Chinese as a free alternative for Chinesepod. Now I’ll share with you what’s been helping me improving my Mandarin at an incredible speed.

For the record, I’ve only tried this with an IPhone6, so I can’t make any promises that it works with other systems as well. While traveling through China three months ago, I gave myself the task to read a Chinese book. I ordered a hard copy book.

But translating all these words I didn’t know was too tiring. Then I tried downloading an e-reader app. I took a Chinese one called 网易云阅读. The app is all Chinese, but simple and logical enoug for beginners to understand. Then I found I could download e-books for free (also outside of China). And here’s the best part. When selecting a word or even an idiom, it will automatically translate it and give you the pinyin including the tones (in the small popup box, select 词典 the first time).

Learn Chinese, free online audio courses. Introduction to the Pinyin, the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, the four tones. First conversation. Audio files All text and dialog in mp3 format. Test yourself lesson by lesson! Memorizing chinese characters. Online chinese exercises. Learn how to speak the Chinese language with Chinese classes, courses and audio and video in Chinese, including phrases, Chinese characters, pinyin, pronunciation, grammar, resources, lessons.

It can even translate whole sentences (without pinyin), which is convenient for new grammar structures or when one sentence contains too many unknown words. So like that, I can easily read a book that is way above my Mandarin proficiency without any problems. In addition, because in books you often run into the same words multiple times, it won’t take long before you remember new words. As I said above, I really like Yep!Chinese and I think these two methods really complement each other.

I just wanted to share this with you guys and I hope some of you will try and enjoy this as well. Please let me know if this works with other phones as well.

• Furio Fu says. Hello, I would like to recommend one popular language portal bab.la to you.

We currently offer over 37 dictionaries, including 24 English bilingual dictionaries. For Chinese version, we now have Chinese-English and Chinese-German. Besides translations we provide additional information such as synonyms, sample & context sentences, pronunciation, etc. Our language portal is completely free. As a Chinese, I think this online dictionary is very good, not only for translation, but also for learning Chinese since it has a forum. I truly hope that you can add this dictionary to your website, so foreigners can learn Chinese more easily. The English website is.

• Mary Cheng says. Hi Furio, thanks so much for sharing all these helpful resources. I have the Mission for 2015 to be able to read a Chinese Newspaper. I studied Chinese 20 years ago in university and also lived for three years in the late 80s mainly in Hong Kong. My focus then was on speaking.

Now I would like to learn to read. So far I have learned the most important 950 characters approximately in 2 months and less than 32 hours on memrise and I started to read my first book in Chinese. I have blogged about my experience here: Currently I do a research on what would be the easiest chinese newspaper to read and which topics? Do you have a suggestion? According to chinese government basic literacy starts with knowing 2000 characters. I was looking for chinese newspapers that would cater for these levels.

Also I looked for chinese tabloids as well as newspapers that would target chinese language learners. But so far I haven’t really find the most easiest to read newspaper. Best regards, Peter About my mission: • Furio Fu says. Hi Peter, I have no idea on the easiest Chinese newspaper to read! General wisdom says you need to know around 3,000 characters in order to be able to understand a newspaper; however this is only half of the truth.

Characters are quite useless alone; most of modern Chinese words are composed of 2, 3 or even 4 characters. Thus, beside the characters, you must learn how to combine them.

Also, often newspaper use very particular words or slangs, especially on headlines. And without them you wouldn’t be able to understand much. These “keyword” are particular in the sense that they aren’t certainly within the most common characters (this is true for any languages, not only Chinese). This is what makes newspapers particularly difficult to handle Cheers F • John Carpenter says.

Thank you Furio for this amazing list. I especially like Yep!Chinese as a free alternative for Chinesepod. Now I’ll share with you what’s been helping me improving my Mandarin at an incredible speed.

For the record, I’ve only tried this with an IPhone6, so I can’t make any promises that it works with other systems as well. While traveling through China three months ago, I gave myself the task to read a Chinese book. I ordered a hard copy book.

But translating all these words I didn’t know was too tiring. Then I tried downloading an e-reader app. I took a Chinese one called 网易云阅读. The app is all Chinese, but simple and logical enoug for beginners to understand. Then I found I could download e-books for free (also outside of China). And here’s the best part. When selecting a word or even an idiom, it will automatically translate it and give you the pinyin including the tones (in the small popup box, select 词典 the first time).

Learn Chinese, free online audio courses. Introduction to the Pinyin, the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, the four tones. First conversation. Audio files All text and dialog in mp3 format. Test yourself lesson by lesson! Memorizing chinese characters. Online chinese exercises. Learn how to speak the Chinese language with Chinese classes, courses and audio and video in Chinese, including phrases, Chinese characters, pinyin, pronunciation, grammar, resources, lessons.

It can even translate whole sentences (without pinyin), which is convenient for new grammar structures or when one sentence contains too many unknown words. So like that, I can easily read a book that is way above my Mandarin proficiency without any problems. In addition, because in books you often run into the same words multiple times, it won’t take long before you remember new words. As I said above, I really like Yep!Chinese and I think these two methods really complement each other.

I just wanted to share this with you guys and I hope some of you will try and enjoy this as well. Please let me know if this works with other phones as well.

• Furio Fu says. Hello, I would like to recommend one popular language portal bab.la to you.

We currently offer over 37 dictionaries, including 24 English bilingual dictionaries. For Chinese version, we now have Chinese-English and Chinese-German. Besides translations we provide additional information such as synonyms, sample & context sentences, pronunciation, etc. Our language portal is completely free. As a Chinese, I think this online dictionary is very good, not only for translation, but also for learning Chinese since it has a forum. I truly hope that you can add this dictionary to your website, so foreigners can learn Chinese more easily. The English website is.

• Mary Cheng says. Hi Furio, thanks so much for sharing all these helpful resources. I have the Mission for 2015 to be able to read a Chinese Newspaper. I studied Chinese 20 years ago in university and also lived for three years in the late 80s mainly in Hong Kong. My focus then was on speaking.

Now I would like to learn to read. So far I have learned the most important 950 characters approximately in 2 months and less than 32 hours on memrise and I started to read my first book in Chinese. I have blogged about my experience here: Currently I do a research on what would be the easiest chinese newspaper to read and which topics? Do you have a suggestion? According to chinese government basic literacy starts with knowing 2000 characters. I was looking for chinese newspapers that would cater for these levels.

Also I looked for chinese tabloids as well as newspapers that would target chinese language learners. But so far I haven’t really find the most easiest to read newspaper. Best regards, Peter About my mission: • Furio Fu says. Hi Peter, I have no idea on the easiest Chinese newspaper to read! General wisdom says you need to know around 3,000 characters in order to be able to understand a newspaper; however this is only half of the truth.

Characters are quite useless alone; most of modern Chinese words are composed of 2, 3 or even 4 characters. Thus, beside the characters, you must learn how to combine them.

Also, often newspaper use very particular words or slangs, especially on headlines. And without them you wouldn’t be able to understand much. These “keyword” are particular in the sense that they aren’t certainly within the most common characters (this is true for any languages, not only Chinese). This is what makes newspapers particularly difficult to handle Cheers F • John Carpenter says.