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<section id="All">
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<div class="navbar__drop-menu" onclick="">Sections</div>
<div class="navbar__container">
<a href="#All" class="navbar__main-btn">All</a>
<a href="#Cantonese">Cantonese</a>
<a href="#Mandarin">Mandarin</a>
<a href="#English">English</a>
<a href="#Hakka">Hakka</a>
<a href="#Hokkien">Hokkien</a>
<a href="#Hunanese">Hunanese</a>
<a href="#Phone">Phone</a>
<a href="#Singlish">Manglish/Singlish</a>
<a href="#Taishanese">Taishanese</a>
<a href="#Wu">Wu</a>
<a href="#Browser">Browser</a>
<a href="#Online">Online</a>
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<a href="#Classical">Classical Chinese</a>
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<a href="#English">English</a>
<a href="#Hakka">Hakka</a>
<a href="#Hokkien">Hokkien</a>
<a href="#Hunanese">Hunanese</a>
<a href="#Phone">Phone</a>
<a href="#Singlish">Manglish/Singlish</a>
<a href="#Taishanese">Taishanese</a>
<a href="#Wu">Wu</a>
<a href="#Browser">Browser</a>
<a href="#Online">Online</a>
<a href="#Offline">Offline</a>
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<a href="#Old">Old Chinese</a>
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<article>
<h1>Input Methods (輸入方式)</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>Type</td>
<td>OS</td>
<td>Language</td>
<td>Description</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>System Default</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12578/add-keyboard-languages-to-xp-vista-and-windows-7/">Win</a>, <a href="http://www.languagegeek.com/keyboard_general/mac_installation1.html">Mac</a></td>
<td>Pinyin、倉頡、<a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Array_input#What_you_need_to_get_started">行列</a></td>
<td>"Chinese Simplified (PRC) - Microsoft Pinyin New Experience Input St." for Win7 and Win8. Ctrl + Shift + F to toggle simplified–traditional.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.pinyinjoe.com/linux/ubuntu-10-chinese-input-pinyin-chewing.htm">System Default</a></td>
<td>Phonetic</td>
<td>Linux</td>
<td>All</td>
<td>Fcitx over ibus because newer. You can use <em>RIME</em> or the <em>pinyin</em> package</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://rime.im/">Rime</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td>Win/Mac/Linux/Android</td>
<td>All</td>
<td>Framework for custom IMEs. You can pretty much get any input method imaginable and it is cross platform. See <a href="https://github.com/espaspw/Resource-Guide/blob/master/doc/IMEs.md">this guide</a> for setup help. You can get Trime from F-droid for phones.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ime/pinyin/">Google Input</a></td>
<td>Phonetic</td>
<td>Win</td>
<td>Pinyin</td>
<td>Google input method</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://taigi.fhl.net/TaigiIME/">FHL Taigi-Hakka IME</a></td>
<td>Phonetic</td>
<td>Win/Mac</td>
<td>POJ(白話字/教羅)、TL(臺羅)</td>
<td>I have never personally used this.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://wubi.sogou.com/">Sogou</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td>Win</td>
<td>拼音、五笔</td>
<td>Easy to switch between Pinyin, Wubi, or both together. Shows the necessary Wubi key strokes even if you enter Pinyin in the combined mode, so good for learning Wubi.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Guides/Textbooks</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://chiahpa.be/t/getting-started-resource-guide/262">Getting started with Taiwanese</a> by <em>aióng</em>. A high-quality resources guide.</li>
<li>There are three ways that Cantonese is romanized. You’ll likely have to get use to all three. Older resources use Yale, newer use Jyutping, natives just fudge it as no romanisation system is taught. Also take a look at Mandarin section for some start character tips should it be relevant (since this primarily spoken language).</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1no0hXmaqkSOn1PUNly2aXpHR1Rs3CU92_i1WNr8HHfk/edit">Google doc resource lits for Shanghainese</a> (上海話)</li>
<li><a href="https://shanghaivernacular.com">Shanghai Vernacular Society</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/espaspw/Resource-Guide/blob/master/doc/Guide%20to%20Learning%20Chinese.md">Guide to Learning Chinese</a></li>
<li>《现代汉语八百词（增订本）》by 吕叔湘</li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Practical-Chinese-Reader-Textbook/dp/7561910401">New Practical Chinese Reader</a> - Progressively teaches reading, writing and listening.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.huayuworld.org/material-download.php">學華語向前走 Let’s Learn Chinese</a> free downloads from 華文網, a website organized by the Overseas Community Affairs Council of Taiwan (僑委會), contains textbooks and resources for learning Mandarin with Traditional Chinese characters.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hwjyw.com/textbooks/downloads/zhongwen/">《中文》</a> free downloads, published by 中国暨南大学 (Jinan University) with the cooperation of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (侨务办公室) of (mainland) China, contains textbooks for learning Mandarin with Simplified Chinese Characters.</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCpiRPZbPei0PfaoZUTuesxoJ0TbTWryHM9GbtSM2ig/edit">Quick Starter Guide to Cantonese</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzQw-iJMJ8ygc1AzWWVZWmFPRVk?usp=sharing">Sietse’s Learning Pack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.jyutping.org/en/docs/">Jyutping Guide</a> (with audio examples)</li>
<li><a href="http://cantonese.ca/">Learn Cantonese!</a> Non-standard romanization</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~canto/Public%20Access/Beginning/Beginning%20reader%20for%20Students%20L1%20to%20L6.pdf">Berkeley Beginning Cantonese</a> [Yale]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/">http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://podcast.rthk.org.hk/podcast/item_all.php?pid=45&current_year=2007">Podcast: Naked Cantonese</a></li>
<li><a href="https://culturequote.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/cantonese-basic.pdf">Culture Quote</a> [Yale]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/">Adam Sheik’s Articles</a> [Essays]</li>
<li><a href="https://howtostudycantonese.com/">How to study Cantonese</a></li>
<li><a href="http://syndict.com/hakka/tutorial/">Syncdict</a> - Lesson material for Hakka and is close to how people actually talk.</li>
<li><a href="http://chinesenotes.com/classical_chinese.html">Notes on Literary Chinese</a> by Alex Ames</li>
<li>[<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B91IVDKbLk-YdGNHRjlObEVyUU0/view">PDF</a>] A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese by Paul Rouzer</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jonvonkowallis.com/readers/Wenyan-Wen/index.php">Wenyan Wen: Introduction to Classical Chinese Language</a> by Jon von Kowalis</li>
<li><a href="http://www.invisiblebooks.com/CGCC.htm">A Concise Grammar of Classical Chinese</a> by Yakov Rabinovich, 2010.</li>
<li>Kanbun, Hanmun, Chữ Nôm, Cổ văn go! These are alternative non-English names for Classical Chinese and will also teach you the subject.</li>
<li><a href="https://chinesepod.com/">Chinese Pod</a> [Lessons][Podcast] Requires free sign up.</li>
<li><a href="http://kidschinesepodcast.com/lessons/">Kid’s Chinese Podcast</a> [Lessons][Podcast]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hellochinese.cc/">Hello Chinese</a> [Lessons][Vocab] - Gamification or Anki/SRS-like course</li>
<li><a href="https://www.clozemaster.com/languages/">Clozemaster</a> [Lessons] - Gamification</li>
<li><a href="http://www.clc.scicube.info/book_link/book_link.html">Cantonese Learning Centre E-book List</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/">Cantonese Lessons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqDaS_9aDl_N7ipFlSQ6LTw/playlists?shelf_id=0&view=1&sort=dd">High School Class Youtube Recordings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170604202810/http://www.freehongkong.net/learn-cantonese-grammar-conjunction-and-sentence-connector/">Free Hong Kong Cantonese Grammar</a> - Romanization system is non-standard</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Pronunciation (發音)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://youglish.com/chinese">Mandarin</a> or <a href="https://youglish.com/">English</a> Youglish — Community- and company-provided subtitles to YouTube videos. You can also search for videos with specific words you are looking to hear.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Hxq1YIsjE">Mandarin IPA I</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcRuwV2hrg">Mandarin IPA II</a></li>
<li><a href="http://challenges.hackingchinese.com/resources">Hacking Chinese’s articles</a> on <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/focusing-on-tone-pairs-to-improve-your-mandarin-pronunciation/">tone practice</a> and <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-learn-chinese-characters-as-a-beginner/">beginning Hanzi</a>. <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/media/100-radicals-markus.pdf">100 most common radicals</a>. [Essays]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/a-guide-to-pinyin-traps-and-pitfalls/">Hacking Chinese’s Guide to Pinyin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php">Yabla Audio Chart</a> [Pinyin][Reference] Southern accent, tones are enunciated so better for learners.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yoyochinese.com/chinese-learning-tools/Mandarin-Chinese-pronunciation-lesson/pinyin-chart-table">Pinyin Audio Chart</a> [Pinyin][Reference] Northern (more standard) accent. Third tone is said quickly as one would naturally say it, so not as ideal for learners.</li>
<li><a href="https://cantolounge.com/jyutping-chart/">Canto Lounge’s Audio Chart</a> [Jyutping][Sounds][Tones]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cantoneseclass101.com/cantonese-alphabet/">Cantonese Class 101’s Audio Chart</a> [Jyutping][Sounds]</li>
<li>http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/shanghainese-soundboard</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Grammar (語法)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Grammar_points_by_level">Chinese Grammar Wiki</a> [Grammar] A bit terse.</li>
<li>Mandarin Chinese Grammar [Grammar] by Claudia Ross</li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Comprehensive-Grammar-Routledge-Grammars/dp/0415150329">Chinese Comprehensive Grammar</a> [Grammar] Extremely heavy, better for intermediate and advanced learners to for comprehensive approach.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/">Chinese Boost</a> [Grammar]</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>HSK (漢語水平考試)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.hsk.academy/">HSK Academy</a> - Very helpful for those learning Chinese characters. Aimed mainly for those seeking the HSK (similar to TOEFL) tests, but still good to learn new words, phrases. There is a short introduction to Chinese grammar also.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wumaocorp.com/hskcheck/">HSK Check</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinesetest.cn/godownload.do">Sample Test Papers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinaeducenter.com/en/hsk/hsktestscore.php">Conversion</a> - Old HSK to New HSK</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Character/Word Lists</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.memrise.com/">Memrise</a> [SRS] - Teaches through exercise. Pay option.</li>
<li><a href="http://skritter.com/">Skritter</a> A pay-for service that combines responsive feedback with SRS learning. Writing and vocabulary. Review of skritter.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fastchinese.org/flashcards">Chinese Tutor Flashcards</a> - A site that works like flashcards to help memorize the Pinyin for Chinese words/phrases.</li>
<li><a href="https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/867291675">Spoonfed Anki Deck</a> [Vocab][Anki]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html">Three Thousand Hanzi</a> by frequency by Patrick Hassel Zein </li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ArxEFo46PTrDyDDhWyu3wB0epxqTyd8WBaprnwTEPm4/edit#gid=1428902047">Frequency List</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Aglvq1BeuKweRnKrY3wRMIuKu4FRDAhwdM98cqjqJSQ/htmlview">Slang Google Doc</a> - A bit outdated</li>
<li>Slang - <a href="http://hkdic.my-helper.com/">湘語詞典</a> for slang</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji_and_Remembering_the_Hanzi">Heisig’s Remembering the Hanzi Series</a> - Controversial book series that espouses a mnemonics method for learning characters. <a href="http://www.saporedicina.com/english/chinese-characters-remember-the-hanzi/">Your mileage may vary</a>.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Word Dictionaries (詞典)</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pleco</strong> - A dictionary aggregator, you get a [ZH↔EN] dictionary (CEDICT) for free, but then you can purchase 现代汉语词典, 现代汉语规范词典 etc. Some dictionaries may be downloaded for free, for example, MOEDict, Cross-Straits, CCCanto, and Words.hk. You may wish to look at the following <a href="https://github.com/alexhk90/Pleco-User-Dictionaries">user-land dictionaries</a> assembled by alexhk09</li>
<li><a href="http://dict.youdao.com/w/">Youdao (有道)</a> by Netease (网易) very solid Mandarin to English translations.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.linedict.com/">Line</a> (formerly Nciku) [EN→ZH][EN←ZH][EN↔Thai][Online] Most examples, flexible handwriting detection, and has the features. A tad bulky/slow. Examples are online</li>
<li>[<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen-chinese-english/">Firefox</a>][<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde/">Chrome</a>] <b>Zhong Wen</b> - Mandarin pop-up dictionaries available for both browsers. Still recommend CPD or Liuchan pop-up dictionary over this as it has support for both Cantonese and Mandarin.</li>
<li><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cantonese-popup-dictionar/pjnbhojkojmibobcpfgihhnohboldhip">CPD (Chrome)</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Browser] Pop-up dictionary.</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/liuchan/">Liuchan (Firefox)</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Browser] Pop-up dictionary.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zdic.net/">Zdic (漢典)</a> [C↔C,EN][Online] Primarily a Mandarin-Mandarin dictionary. Compiles the pretty much everything of readers of Modern Chinese Language need in a single search bar: definitions, translations (probably lifted from MoeDict, sometimes also provides translations along individual senses probably lifted from Xiandai Hanyu Cidian 5th Edition), etymology, 說文解字、康熙詞典), shaped-based input combination lookup (五筆、倉頡、鄭碼), variant characters, readings in related Chinese languages (音韵方言), etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php">MDCG</a> [EN↔ZH][Online] Curators of the CC-CEDICT dictionary that serves as the standard C many reference. Does not show examples unfortunately.</li>
<li><a href="http://words.hk/">Words.HK (Jyutdin)</a> [CA↔CA][Online]. Requires Facebook login, but available free of charge on Pleco.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/">CantoDict</a> [EN↔CA][Online] Jyutping, audio bytes, examples. The most comprehensive English-Cantonese dictionary out there. You have to make sure you select the right category for searching.</li>
<li><strong>Pleco's Cantonese-English dictionary</strong> <a href="http://cantonese.org/">CC-Canto</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Android][iOS] based on CC-EDictA2 with a human check for differences for Cantonese. Available in Pleco directly.
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<li><a href="https://wugniu.com">吳語學堂</a>, dictionary for Wu languages.</li>
<li><a href="http://wu-chinese.com/minidict/">吴音小字典</a>, another dictionary for Wu languages made by the 吴语协会 Wu Chinese Society.</li>
<li>现代汉语词典7th Ed. [ZH↔ZH][Book] Standard dictionary that Mainland uses.</li>
<li><a href="http://dictionary.pinpinchinese.com/">Pin Pin</a> [EN↔ZH] Both CC-CEDICT definitions, definitions from Tatoeba, as well as user-submitted definitions.</li>
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<li>[Pe̍h-ōe-jī] <a href="https://niawdeleon.com/hokkien-dictionary/">Taiwanese-English dictionary</a> by Maryknoll Taiwan</li>
<li><a href="https://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/">MoeDict 臺灣閩南話常用詞辭典</a> - A Taiwanese (Hokkien/臺語/閩南話）dictionary maintained by the Ministry of Education for the Taiwanese government. This is provided under the Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0 license whose source can be found on <a href="https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-twblg">this GitHub page</a>. See the Pleco entry for a way to build the dictionary into an existing Pleco installation.</li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.hakka.gov.tw/ver2018">Hakka Dictionary</a> - maintained by the Hakka Affairs Council (客家委員會) for the Taiwanese Government. You can hear voice recordings of example sentences, dictionary definitions are also fairly detailed. I believe the source can be found on <a href="https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-hakka">this GitHub page</a>, released under an Attribution, No Derivatives, Non-Commercial license. See the Pleco entry for a way to build the dictionary into an existing Pleco installation.</li>
<li><a href="http://syndict.com/">Syndict (薪典)</a> - Primarily a Hakka dictionary. If you follow it on WeChat, you can do Speech-To-Text recognition, i.e. Hakka to Hanzi.</li>
<li><a href="http://kaifangcidian.com/">Kaifang Cidian</a> - Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Wu Dictionary</li>
<li><a href="http://minhakka.ling.sinica.edu.tw/bkg/choan-bun-kiam-sek.php">Sinicia</a> - Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Wu Dictionary</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stephen-li.com/TaishaneseVocabulary/Taishanese.html">Stephen Li Taishanese Dictionary</a></li>
<li><a href="http://minhakka.ling.sinica.edu.tw/bkg/choan-bun-kiam-sek.php">Choân-Bûn Kiám-Sek</a> - Dictionary for Hakka and Taiwanese by Academia Sinica. (閩南語、客家話)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.singlishdictionary.com/">Singlish Dictionary</a></li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Character Dictionaries (字典)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/">小學堂</a> - This provides topolect-specific (i.e Classical, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, etc.) lookup for characters. Provided by Information Sciences department of Academia Sinica (中央硏究院) university.</li>
<li><a href="http://ccamc.co/">The Complete Collection of Ancient and Modern Characters (古今文字集成)</a> [C↔C,EN][Online], a very comprehensive dictionary covering historical character evolution and etymology, historical pronunciation and usage, and contemporary regional topolect pronunciations. Also includes pronunciations in Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese, along with a reference section for historical languages/scripts such as Tangut (西夏文), ʼPhags-pa (八思巴文), Jurchen (女真文), and Khitan script (契丹文). Allows lookup by radical, character, Unicode, or phonetic lookup. Dictionaries referenced include 漢語大字典, 說文解字, and 康熙字典.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zdic.net/">Zdic (漢典)</a> [C↔C,EN][Online] Primarily a Mandarin-Mandarin dictionary. Compiles the pretty much everything of readers of Modern Chinese Language need in a single search bar: definitions, translations (probably lifted from MoeDict, sometimes also provides translations along individual senses probably lifted from Xiandai Hanyu Cidian 5th Edition), etymology, 說文解字、康熙詞典), shaped-based input combination lookup (五筆、倉頡、鄭碼), variant characters, readings in related Chinese languages (音韵方言), etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://zi.tools/zi/%E4%BD%A0">Zi Tools</a> that breaks down components and presents their oracle bone, seal script, or just a pictograph</li>
<li><a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/">Multi-function Chinese Character Database CC-English-C</a> (Uses homophones in addition to romanisation for pronunciation, for those that are more comfortable with that than romanisation) (Also has audio clips, but those can be a little stretched out to emphasise the tones)</li>
<li><a href="http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en">Ctext Dictionary</a> - Classical Chinese character dictionary and document archive.</li>
<li><a href="https://ytenx.org/">韻典網</a> [C↔C][Online], a Rime dictionary (韻書) website which allows searching historical Rime dictionaries and rhyme systems: 《廣韻》、《中原音韻》、《洪武正韻牋》、《分韻撮要》、《上古音系》. The website also provides reconstructed historical pronunciations.</li>
<li>新华字典, the dictionary given free of charge to every Mainland Chinese student</li>
<li>[<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordinterpret.dictionary">Android</a>] <strong>Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)</strong> - Analyses character etymology in Classical Chinese, or more specifically, traces the make-up of seal script (小篆) characters and attempts to explain how the creates their meaning. First published in AD. 121 by Xu Shen (許慎), the version annotated by Qing scholar Duan Yuancai (段玉裁) is frequently referenced by Chinese students even today. The Android app additionally contains a dictionary with definitions in Modern Mandarin (though I am not sure where it pulls its definitions from at the moment).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zhongwen.com/">Zhongwen</a> [EN↔ZH][Online] (Unrelated to pop-up dictionary). Lightweight and responsive. Alternative to Wenlin for radical-based breakdown of characters and shared-radical map. However, character search does not work (might be encoding issue) and unable to copy paste.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.outlier-linguistics.com/">Outlier Dictionary</a> that offers much more up-to-date. Still in development.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Specialist Dictionaries</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pleco</strong> - A dictionary aggregator, you get a [ZH↔EN] dictionary (CEDICT) for free, but then you can purchase 现代汉语词典, 现代汉语规范词典 etc. Some dictionaries may be downloaded for free, for example, MOEDict, Cross-Straits, CCCanto, and Words.hk. You may wish to look at the following <a href="https://github.com/alexhk90/Pleco-User-Dictionaries">user-land dictionaries</a> assembled by alexhk09</li>
<li><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/">Baidu Baike</a> [ZH→ZH,EN] An encyclopaedia, but it does list definitions.</li>
<li>Wikipedia - Great for translating technical jargon or just generally specific words. Find the article, then click on the Chinese version of that article. Unfortunately filters in and out of being on the blacklist for the Great Firewall of China.</li>
<li><a href="http://hanzicraft.com/">HanziCraft</a>, Breaks down character into radicals and assorted strokes. Also features a table list of homonyms.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Reading Material (閱讀材料)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://storyfree.com/">Storyfree</a> - Children stories</li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chinesebookclub/">Chinese Book Club on Reddit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.tsoidug.org/">Tsoi Dug’s bilingual site</a> - Essays, poetry, articles on culture, etc. in both English and Chinese. </li>
<li><a href="http://cendalirit.blogspot.hk/">每天為你讀一首詩</a> - A blog featuring daily posts on modern Chinese poetry</li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinese-stories.com/">Chinese Stories</a> - Graded Reading. </li>
<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130709010055/http://www.chinesestoriesplatform.com/">Chinese Stories Platform</a> - Graded reading</li>
<li><a href="http://justlearnchinese.com/mini-novels/">Just Learn Chinese</a> - Graded reading</li>
<li><a href="https://www.duchinese.net/">Du Chinese</a> - Phone app. Graded reading with mouse over translations and transliterations</li>
<li><a href="http://www.decipherchinese.com/">Decipher</a> - Phone app with paid service. Daily graded articles.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Newspaper (報紙)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.thechairmansbao.com/">Chariman's Bao</a> - Newspaper tailored to learners [Graded Reader] (if I recall correctly)</li>
<li><a href="http://mandarinweekly.com/">Mandarin Weekly</a> - A weekly newsletter containing Mandarin study stuff!</li>
<li><a href="http://cn.nytimes.com/">New York Times in Chinese</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mingpao.com/">Ming Pao Newspaper</a> (Trad. Chinese) </li>
<li><a href="https://www.singtao.ca/toronto/">Sing Tao Newspaper</a> (Trad. Chinese) </li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Novels and Visual Novels</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.qidian.com/">Qidian</a> - Probably the largest. You can also find fan translations of some of their stories if you do a bit of searching. They have an energy system that you can make use of to read for free. You can also find several mirror sites.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.xxsy.net/">xxsy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://xs.cn/">xs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jjwxc.net/">jjwxc</a></li>
<li>Cantonese webnovels</li>
<li><a href="https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&fil=olang-zh&rfil=">Chinese Visual Novels originals</a> - In case you don’t know these are basically books with pretty pictures and music in -the background. You can find some of these on Steam. For all translated to Chinese, <a href="https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&fil=lang-zh&rfil=">here</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://forum8.hkgolden.com/topics.aspx?type=SY">HKGolden</a></li>
<li><a href="http://shikoto.com/">Shikoto</a></li>
<li><a href="http://haodoo.net/">Fan-transcribed E-books</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/?sf=1&org=495&sort=abc&order=asc">Novelupdates</a> - In case you want the ~~totally legal~~ fan translations to reference. Fantasy genres <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/36q51h/as_a_chinese_id_like_to_talk_about_those_chinese/">explanations</a> Xianxia has become kinda catch all in English.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Dramas</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.viki.com/">Viki</a> - A legal stream service (thus their catalogue will depend on your country, though you can use a VPN to get around this region lock) that focuses on East Asian media. Their catalogue is a majority Korean drama, though they have Chinese and Taiwanese dramas. They have a useful feature</li>
<li><a href="http://mydramalist.com/">MyDramalist</a> - Drama information and watchlist site </li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPIRD4yr1hlAEovBCSNlAKg">Croton's</a> Official Youtube [ZH]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.tvbanywhere.com/">TVB</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dnvod.tv/">Dnvod</a> - Loads of films with Chinese subs/dubs.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Youtube</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://youglish.com/chinese">Mandarin</a> or <a href="https://youglish.com/">English</a> Youglish — Community- and company-provided subtitles to YouTube videos. You can also search for videos with specific words you are looking to hear.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrzIOt7m6WJ_h4zPY0wDaJw">巴黎温州教会主日讲道</a> channel that regularly uploads dual-lingual streams in Wenzhounese 溫州話 and Standard Mandarin (普通話)</li>
<li><a href="https://mandarinmadeez.com/">Mandarin Madeez</a> - YouTube videos by Fiona Tian, these are awesome!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpuAQiIlxFe0FlR2gXXLUKA/videos?flow=list&view=0&sort=da">Xue Bai’s Youtube Series</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsl59JxjRtBSc3zdt6-Xymw">Mandarin is Awesome</a> - Youtube Mandarin course</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpN2N1K4pWzlW5qDd0HjhDQ">Shawn's Mando Chinese</a> - Youtube Mandarin course</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRLvrbf9kpcOKZxFUpPXHgoAKIr_wHXvP&">Growing Up With Chinese</a> - Youtube Mandarin course</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Other Media</h1>
<ul>
<li>http://live.sk-knower.com/hk - filters twitch Hong Kong streamers</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Manhua</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.kuaikuaimanhua.com/">Kuai Kuai Manhua</a> - Mandarin</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lianzai.me/">Lianzai</a> - Mandarin</li>
<li><a href="http://www.u17.com/">U17</a> - Mandarin</li>
<li><a href="http://ac.qq.com/">QQ</a> - Mandarin</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Donghua</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://v.qq.com/">QQ Donghua</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bangumi.bilibili.com/">Bilibili (哔哩哔哩)</a> - also known as B站 the haven of 二次元.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Z7nO8GGZt_FZeG8UMC4Sw">Dai Yi Fansubs</a> - Donghua with English subs</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Audio and Podcasts</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://singchinesesongs.com/">Sing Chinese Songs</a> - Learn Chinese through song. You sing karaoke with Pinyin/characters and then turn off the Pinyin.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.1ting.com/rank/pop.html">Chinese Songs Classics: Yi Ting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://radio.bbtv.cn/">BBTV</a> Radio</li>
<li><a href="http://chinesepod.com/">Chinese Pod</a></li>
<li>Mandarin Audio Books: <a href="http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_epi.php?pid=448">RTHK’s podcast</a> and <a href="http://tingbook.com/">Tingbook</a></li>
<li>Cantonese Audio Books: <a href="http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_epi.php?pid=447">RTHK’s podcasts</a> (Mandarin-original) </li>
<li><a href="http://popupcantonese.com/">Popup cantonese</a></li>
<li><a href="http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_all.php?pid=702&lang=zh-CN">RHTK’s Cantonese Podcast</a> about 古文觀止</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Miscellaneous</h1>
<ul>
<li>http://csulb.learningchineseonline.net/ a whole lot of resources</li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinasimplified.com/">China Simplified</a> - Useful articles about studying Mandarin and the language itself.</li>
<li><a href="https://glossika.com/courses/">Glossika’s Courses</a> - A course based on listening to and speaking sentences. Has Cantonese (paid), Hakka (free), Mainland or Taiwan Mandarin (paid), and Taiwanese Hokkien (free) flavours.</li>
<li><a href="http://fluentu.com/">FluentU</a> - A site that provides short Chinese videos with subtitles with characters, Pinyin and English.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lang-8.com/">Lang-8</a> - an exchange based around writing in a foreign language providing corrections. Good for getting grammar corrected. They recommend writing no more than a couple of paragraphs and recommend writing a translation of what you wanted to say.</li>
<li><a href="http://confusedlaowai.com/2013/07/comprehensive-onomatopoeia-list/">Onomatopoeia list</a> - Sound words in Mandarin</li>
<li>http://www.hackingchinese.com/chinese-character-variants-and-fonts-for-language-learners/</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Calligraphy（書法）</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/nexaitch/152039f1e20c49e93a5505f5fa194e26">Getting started with learning Chinese (or Japanese) Calligraphy</a> by <em>it's yuuu!</em>
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<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/%E5%8F%A4%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%8C%9C%E7%8C%9C%E6%A8%82/id1193864419?mt=8">App for Learning Oracle Bone Script</a> [iOS]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.shufazidian.com/">Calligraphy Dictionary</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvPiCUjsIEaCdYiHtP4pbPg">Youtube channel on handwriting</a> - Goes over several examples and general advice for handwriting in Mandarin. A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s6pxhNql70">fifteen-part series</a> on handwriting characters but in Japanese.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Fonts（字體）</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://hayataki-masaharu.jp/web-typography-in-japanese/">Typesetting characters</a> in Japanese but also applicable to Chinese</li>
<li><a href="http://unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html">Unicode FAQ on CJK Characters</a> - On the technicalities of representing fonts</li>
<li><a href="https://babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html">BableStone Han</a> font designed specifically for obscure characters and the new additions to Unicode.</li>
<li><a href="http://fonts.jp/hanazono/">花園明朝(HanaMin)</a> another font that contains rare characters (through CJK extension F), though technically designed for Japanese, will allow you to view even more obscure characters.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/08fea/c02.html#Fonts">Fonts for Older Scripts</a></li>
<li>Academic writing is typically done with 楷書 for the author, 宋體 for everything else, 四號 for regular text, 三號 for titles for Mainland China. For English, the standard is typically double-spaced Times New Roman or Arial font, 12pt for regular text 16pt for titles.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Texts</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en">Ctext Dictionary</a> - Classical Chinese character dictionary and document archive.</li>
<li>Database of texts: <a href="http://ctext.org/">Ctext</a> and http://tls.uni-hd.de/home_en.lasso</li>
<li><a href="http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=intro">Wengu</a> - One of the best resources for classical Chinese works.</li>
<li><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E5%A4%A7%E5%85%B8:%E5%8D%B7%E9%A6%96">Wikipedia in Classical</a></li>
<li><a href="http://chinese-poems.com/">ChinesePoetry</a> - Ancient Chinese Poetry.</li>
<li><a href="http://open-lit.com/list.php">List of Novels</a></li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Tools</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://fanyi.baidu.com/#zh/yue/">Baidu translate</a> [MLT] Machine translator. Has Mandarin, Cantonese, and Classical.</li>
<li><a href="http://translate.google.com/">Google Translate</a> [MLT] Great for handwriting recognition. Click on the 拼 -> handwriting</li>
<li>Simplified↔Traditional Conversion [<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njstar-chinese-website-co/oljejbejachaajllbbjiamdkhipbbppk?hl=en">Chrome</a>] [<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new_tongwentang/">Firefox</a>]</li>
<li><a href="https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2512410601">Real Time Anki Import</a> - To automate anki entry</li>
<li><a href="http://ankisrs.net/">Anki</a> [Memorization][<a href="http://www.omniglot.com/language/srs.php">SRS</a>] - Flashcard memorization program. Recommend using Anki as a revision tool and <a href="https://eastasiastudent.net/study/anki-structure/">build your own decks</a>, but if you really want to can find <a href="https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/">pre-built decks</a> to learn vocabulary. Also see <a href="http://www.isimplylovelanguages.com/serial-how-to-use-anki-effectively/">this</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zhtoolkit.com/apps/chinese_word_extractor/">Zhtoolkit</a> [Text Analysis] - Breakdowns a text into its constituent words with definitions with CC-EDICT. Can custom set dictionary and also filter out learnt words.</li>
<li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jnovelformatter/">JNovelFormter</a> - Quickly converts .txt files to be easily viewed as an HTML document. Useful in conjunction with pop-up dictionaries and the popup-dictionary-to-Anki function</li>
<li><a href="https://www.chineseconverter.com/cantonesetools/en/cantonese-to-jyutping">Jyutping Converter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://horizontalhanzi.com/">Horizontal Hanzi</a> - For disambiguating similar-looking characters</li>
<li><a href="http://pin1yin1.com/">Pin1yin1</a> - Converts characters to Pinyin with diacritics (tone markers) or Zhuyin to a text</li>
<li><a href="https://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/">Text analyser</a> - Pay for program</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Communities</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://discord.gg/ADdR45y">Chinese-English Exchange Discord Server</a> - Why us of course. Targeted towards learners of Chinese languages as well as English.</li>
<li><a href="http://syndict.com/hot/index.htm">Very nice list of Hakka communities and resources curated by Syndict, company based in Shenzhen</a></li>
<li><a href="https://discord.gg/BdSb4AJ">A discord focused on classical texts (not just Chinese)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalchinese/">r/ClassicalChinese</a> - Subreddit</li>
<li><a href="https://discordapp.com/invite/te89K64">United Nations of Ancient and Endangered Languages Discord</a></li>
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<h1>Input Methods (輸入方式)</h1>
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<td>Name</td>
<td>Type</td>
<td>OS</td>
<td>Language</td>
<td>Description</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>System Default</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12578/add-keyboard-languages-to-xp-vista-and-windows-7/">Win</a>, <a href="http://www.languagegeek.com/keyboard_general/mac_installation1.html">Mac</a></td>
<td>Pinyin、倉頡、<a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Array_input#What_you_need_to_get_started">行列</a></td>
<td>"Chinese Simplified (PRC) - Microsoft Pinyin New Experience Input St." for Win7 and Win8. Ctrl + Shift + F to toggle simplified–traditional.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.pinyinjoe.com/linux/ubuntu-10-chinese-input-pinyin-chewing.htm">System Default</a></td>
<td>Phonetic</td>
<td>Linux</td>
<td>All</td>
<td>Fcitx over ibus because newer. You can use <em>RIME</em> or the <em>pinyin</em> package</td>
</tr>
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<td><a href="http://rime.im/">Rime</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td>Win/Mac/Linux/Android</td>
<td>All</td>
<td>Framework for custom IMEs. You can pretty much get any input method imaginable and it is cross platform. See <a href="https://github.com/espaspw/Resource-Guide/blob/master/doc/IMEs.md">this guide</a> for setup help. You can get Trime from F-droid for phones.</td>
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<td><a href="http://wubi.sogou.com/">Sogou</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td>Win</td>
<td>拼音、五笔</td>
<td>Easy to switch between Pinyin, Wubi, or both together. Shows the necessary Wubi key strokes even if you enter Pinyin in the combined mode, so good for learning Wubi.</td>
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</article>
<article>
<h1>Guides/Textbooks</h1>
<ul>
<li>There are three ways that Cantonese is romanized. You’ll likely have to get use to all three. Older resources use Yale, newer use Jyutping, natives just fudge it as no romanisation system is taught. Also take a look at Mandarin section for some start character tips should it be relevant (since this primarily spoken language).</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCpiRPZbPei0PfaoZUTuesxoJ0TbTWryHM9GbtSM2ig/edit">Quick Starter Guide to Cantonese</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzQw-iJMJ8ygc1AzWWVZWmFPRVk?usp=sharing">Sietse’s Learning Pack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.jyutping.org/en/docs/">Jyutping Guide</a> (with audio examples)</li>
<li><a href="http://cantonese.ca/">Learn Cantonese!</a> Non-standard romanization</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~canto/Public%20Access/Beginning/Beginning%20reader%20for%20Students%20L1%20to%20L6.pdf">Berkeley Beginning Cantonese</a> [Yale]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/">http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://podcast.rthk.org.hk/podcast/item_all.php?pid=45&current_year=2007">Podcast: Naked Cantonese</a></li>
<li><a href="https://culturequote.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/cantonese-basic.pdf">Culture Quote</a> [Yale]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/">Adam Sheik’s Articles</a> [Essays]</li>
<li><a href="https://howtostudycantonese.com/">How to study Cantonese</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.clc.scicube.info/book_link/book_link.html">Cantonese Learning Centre E-book List</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/">Cantonese Lessons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqDaS_9aDl_N7ipFlSQ6LTw/playlists?shelf_id=0&view=1&sort=dd">High School Class Youtube Recordings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170604202810/http://www.freehongkong.net/learn-cantonese-grammar-conjunction-and-sentence-connector/">Free Hong Kong Cantonese Grammar</a> - Romanization system is non-standard</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Pronunciation (發音)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://cantolounge.com/jyutping-chart/">Canto Lounge’s Audio Chart</a> [Jyutping][Sounds][Tones]</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cantoneseclass101.com/cantonese-alphabet/">Cantonese Class 101’s Audio Chart</a> [Jyutping][Sounds]</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Character/Word Lists</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ArxEFo46PTrDyDDhWyu3wB0epxqTyd8WBaprnwTEPm4/edit#gid=1428902047">Frequency List</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Aglvq1BeuKweRnKrY3wRMIuKu4FRDAhwdM98cqjqJSQ/htmlview">Slang Google Doc</a> - A bit outdated</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Word Dictionaries (詞典)</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pleco</strong> - A dictionary aggregator, you get a [ZH↔EN] dictionary (CEDICT) for free, but then you can purchase 现代汉语词典, 现代汉语规范词典 etc. Some dictionaries may be downloaded for free, for example, MOEDict, Cross-Straits, CCCanto, and Words.hk. You may wish to look at the following <a href="https://github.com/alexhk90/Pleco-User-Dictionaries">user-land dictionaries</a> assembled by alexhk09</li>
<li><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cantonese-popup-dictionar/pjnbhojkojmibobcpfgihhnohboldhip">CPD (Chrome)</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Browser] Pop-up dictionary.</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/liuchan/">Liuchan (Firefox)</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Browser] Pop-up dictionary.</li>
<li><a href="http://words.hk/">Words.HK (Jyutdin)</a> [CA↔CA][Online]. Requires Facebook login, but available free of charge on Pleco.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/">CantoDict</a> [EN↔CA][Online] Jyutping, audio bytes, examples. The most comprehensive English-Cantonese dictionary out there. You have to make sure you select the right category for searching.</li>
<li><strong>Pleco's Cantonese-English dictionary</strong> <a href="http://cantonese.org/">CC-Canto</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Android][iOS] based on CC-EDictA2 with a human check for differences for Cantonese. Available in Pleco directly.
</li>
<li><a href="http://syndict.com/">Syndict (薪典)</a> - Primarily a Hakka dictionary. If you follow it on WeChat, you can do Speech-To-Text recognition, i.e. Hakka to Hanzi.</li>
<li><a href="http://kaifangcidian.com/">Kaifang Cidian</a> - Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Wu Dictionary</li>
<li><a href="http://minhakka.ling.sinica.edu.tw/bkg/choan-bun-kiam-sek.php">Sinicia</a> - Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Wu Dictionary</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Character Dictionaries (字典)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/">小學堂</a> - This provides topolect-specific (i.e Classical, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, etc.) lookup for characters. Provided by Information Sciences department of Academia Sinica (中央硏究院) university.</li>
<li><a href="http://ccamc.co/">The Complete Collection of Ancient and Modern Characters (古今文字集成)</a> [C↔C,EN][Online], a very comprehensive dictionary covering historical character evolution and etymology, historical pronunciation and usage, and contemporary regional topolect pronunciations. Also includes pronunciations in Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese, along with a reference section for historical languages/scripts such as Tangut (西夏文), ʼPhags-pa (八思巴文), Jurchen (女真文), and Khitan script (契丹文). Allows lookup by radical, character, Unicode, or phonetic lookup. Dictionaries referenced include 漢語大字典, 說文解字, and 康熙字典.</li>
<li><a href="http://zi.tools/zi/%E4%BD%A0">Zi Tools</a> that breaks down components and presents their oracle bone, seal script, or just a pictograph</li>
<li><a href="https://www.outlier-linguistics.com/">Outlier Dictionary</a> that offers much more up-to-date. Still in development.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Specialist Dictionaries</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pleco</strong> - A dictionary aggregator, you get a [ZH↔EN] dictionary (CEDICT) for free, but then you can purchase 现代汉语词典, 现代汉语规范词典 etc. Some dictionaries may be downloaded for free, for example, MOEDict, Cross-Straits, CCCanto, and Words.hk. You may wish to look at the following <a href="https://github.com/alexhk90/Pleco-User-Dictionaries">user-land dictionaries</a> assembled by alexhk09</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Novels and Visual Novels</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://forum8.hkgolden.com/topics.aspx?type=SY">HKGolden</a></li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Dramas</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.tvbanywhere.com/">TVB</a></li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Miscellaneous</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://glossika.com/courses/">Glossika’s Courses</a> - A course based on listening to and speaking sentences. Has Cantonese (paid), Hakka (free), Mainland or Taiwan Mandarin (paid), and Taiwanese Hokkien (free) flavours.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Calligraphy（書法）</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/nexaitch/152039f1e20c49e93a5505f5fa194e26">Getting started with learning Chinese (or Japanese) Calligraphy</a> by <em>it's yuuu!</em>
</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/%E5%8F%A4%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%8C%9C%E7%8C%9C%E6%A8%82/id1193864419?mt=8">App for Learning Oracle Bone Script</a> [iOS]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.shufazidian.com/">Calligraphy Dictionary</a></li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Fonts（字體）</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://hayataki-masaharu.jp/web-typography-in-japanese/">Typesetting characters</a> in Japanese but also applicable to Chinese</li>
<li><a href="http://unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html">Unicode FAQ on CJK Characters</a> - On the technicalities of representing fonts</li>
<li><a href="https://babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html">BableStone Han</a> font designed specifically for obscure characters and the new additions to Unicode.</li>
<li><a href="http://fonts.jp/hanazono/">花園明朝(HanaMin)</a> another font that contains rare characters (through CJK extension F), though technically designed for Japanese, will allow you to view even more obscure characters.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/08fea/c02.html#Fonts">Fonts for Older Scripts</a></li>
<li>Academic writing is typically done with 楷書 for the author, 宋體 for everything else, 四號 for regular text, 三號 for titles for Mainland China. For English, the standard is typically double-spaced Times New Roman or Arial font, 12pt for regular text 16pt for titles.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Tools</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jnovelformatter/">JNovelFormter</a> - Quickly converts .txt files to be easily viewed as an HTML document. Useful in conjunction with pop-up dictionaries and the popup-dictionary-to-Anki function</li>
<li><a href="https://www.chineseconverter.com/cantonesetools/en/cantonese-to-jyutping">Jyutping Converter</a></li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Communities</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://discord.gg/ADdR45y">Chinese-English Exchange Discord Server</a> - Why us of course. Targeted towards learners of Chinese languages as well as English.</li>
</ul>
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<h1>Input Methods (輸入方式)</h1>
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<td>Name</td>
<td>Type</td>
<td>OS</td>
<td>Language</td>
<td>Description</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>System Default</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12578/add-keyboard-languages-to-xp-vista-and-windows-7/">Win</a>, <a href="http://www.languagegeek.com/keyboard_general/mac_installation1.html">Mac</a></td>
<td>Pinyin、倉頡、<a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Array_input#What_you_need_to_get_started">行列</a></td>
<td>"Chinese Simplified (PRC) - Microsoft Pinyin New Experience Input St." for Win7 and Win8. Ctrl + Shift + F to toggle simplified–traditional.</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.pinyinjoe.com/linux/ubuntu-10-chinese-input-pinyin-chewing.htm">System Default</a></td>
<td>Phonetic</td>
<td>Linux</td>
<td>All</td>
<td>Fcitx over ibus because newer. You can use <em>RIME</em> or the <em>pinyin</em> package</td>
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<td><a href="http://rime.im/">Rime</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td>Win/Mac/Linux/Android</td>
<td>All</td>
<td>Framework for custom IMEs. You can pretty much get any input method imaginable and it is cross platform. See <a href="https://github.com/espaspw/Resource-Guide/blob/master/doc/IMEs.md">this guide</a> for setup help. You can get Trime from F-droid for phones.</td>
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<td><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ime/pinyin/">Google Input</a></td>
<td>Phonetic</td>
<td>Win</td>
<td>Pinyin</td>
<td>Google input method</td>
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<td><a href="http://wubi.sogou.com/">Sogou</a></td>
<td>Phonetic/Shape</td>
<td>Win</td>
<td>拼音、五笔</td>
<td>Easy to switch between Pinyin, Wubi, or both together. Shows the necessary Wubi key strokes even if you enter Pinyin in the combined mode, so good for learning Wubi.</td>
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<article>
<h1>Guides/Textbooks</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/espaspw/Resource-Guide/blob/master/doc/Guide%20to%20Learning%20Chinese.md">Guide to Learning Chinese</a></li>
<li>《现代汉语八百词（增订本）》by 吕叔湘</li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Practical-Chinese-Reader-Textbook/dp/7561910401">New Practical Chinese Reader</a> - Progressively teaches reading, writing and listening.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.huayuworld.org/material-download.php">學華語向前走 Let’s Learn Chinese</a> free downloads from 華文網, a website organized by the Overseas Community Affairs Council of Taiwan (僑委會), contains textbooks and resources for learning Mandarin with Traditional Chinese characters.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hwjyw.com/textbooks/downloads/zhongwen/">《中文》</a> free downloads, published by 中国暨南大学 (Jinan University) with the cooperation of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (侨务办公室) of (mainland) China, contains textbooks for learning Mandarin with Simplified Chinese Characters.</li>
<li><a href="https://chinesepod.com/">Chinese Pod</a> [Lessons][Podcast] Requires free sign up.</li>
<li><a href="http://kidschinesepodcast.com/lessons/">Kid’s Chinese Podcast</a> [Lessons][Podcast]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hellochinese.cc/">Hello Chinese</a> [Lessons][Vocab] - Gamification or Anki/SRS-like course</li>
<li><a href="https://www.clozemaster.com/languages/">Clozemaster</a> [Lessons] - Gamification</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Pronunciation (發音)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://youglish.com/chinese">Mandarin</a> or <a href="https://youglish.com/">English</a> Youglish — Community- and company-provided subtitles to YouTube videos. You can also search for videos with specific words you are looking to hear.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Hxq1YIsjE">Mandarin IPA I</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcRuwV2hrg">Mandarin IPA II</a></li>
<li><a href="http://challenges.hackingchinese.com/resources">Hacking Chinese’s articles</a> on <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/focusing-on-tone-pairs-to-improve-your-mandarin-pronunciation/">tone practice</a> and <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-learn-chinese-characters-as-a-beginner/">beginning Hanzi</a>. <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/media/100-radicals-markus.pdf">100 most common radicals</a>. [Essays]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/a-guide-to-pinyin-traps-and-pitfalls/">Hacking Chinese’s Guide to Pinyin</a></li>
<li><a href="https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php">Yabla Audio Chart</a> [Pinyin][Reference] Southern accent, tones are enunciated so better for learners.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yoyochinese.com/chinese-learning-tools/Mandarin-Chinese-pronunciation-lesson/pinyin-chart-table">Pinyin Audio Chart</a> [Pinyin][Reference] Northern (more standard) accent. Third tone is said quickly as one would naturally say it, so not as ideal for learners.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Grammar (語法)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Grammar_points_by_level">Chinese Grammar Wiki</a> [Grammar] A bit terse.</li>
<li>Mandarin Chinese Grammar [Grammar] by Claudia Ross</li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Comprehensive-Grammar-Routledge-Grammars/dp/0415150329">Chinese Comprehensive Grammar</a> [Grammar] Extremely heavy, better for intermediate and advanced learners to for comprehensive approach.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/">Chinese Boost</a> [Grammar]</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>HSK (漢語水平考試)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.hsk.academy/">HSK Academy</a> - Very helpful for those learning Chinese characters. Aimed mainly for those seeking the HSK (similar to TOEFL) tests, but still good to learn new words, phrases. There is a short introduction to Chinese grammar also.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wumaocorp.com/hskcheck/">HSK Check</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinesetest.cn/godownload.do">Sample Test Papers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinaeducenter.com/en/hsk/hsktestscore.php">Conversion</a> - Old HSK to New HSK</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Character/Word Lists</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.memrise.com/">Memrise</a> [SRS] - Teaches through exercise. Pay option.</li>
<li><a href="http://skritter.com/">Skritter</a> A pay-for service that combines responsive feedback with SRS learning. Writing and vocabulary. Review of skritter.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fastchinese.org/flashcards">Chinese Tutor Flashcards</a> - A site that works like flashcards to help memorize the Pinyin for Chinese words/phrases.</li>
<li><a href="https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/867291675">Spoonfed Anki Deck</a> [Vocab][Anki]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html">Three Thousand Hanzi</a> by frequency by Patrick Hassel Zein </li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji_and_Remembering_the_Hanzi">Heisig’s Remembering the Hanzi Series</a> - Controversial book series that espouses a mnemonics method for learning characters. <a href="http://www.saporedicina.com/english/chinese-characters-remember-the-hanzi/">Your mileage may vary</a>.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Word Dictionaries (詞典)</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pleco</strong> - A dictionary aggregator, you get a [ZH↔EN] dictionary (CEDICT) for free, but then you can purchase 现代汉语词典, 现代汉语规范词典 etc. Some dictionaries may be downloaded for free, for example, MOEDict, Cross-Straits, CCCanto, and Words.hk. You may wish to look at the following <a href="https://github.com/alexhk90/Pleco-User-Dictionaries">user-land dictionaries</a> assembled by alexhk09</li>
<li><a href="http://dict.youdao.com/w/">Youdao (有道)</a> by Netease (网易) very solid Mandarin to English translations.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.linedict.com/">Line</a> (formerly Nciku) [EN→ZH][EN←ZH][EN↔Thai][Online] Most examples, flexible handwriting detection, and has the features. A tad bulky/slow. Examples are online</li>
<li>[<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen-chinese-english/">Firefox</a>][<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde/">Chrome</a>] <b>Zhong Wen</b> - Mandarin pop-up dictionaries available for both browsers. Still recommend CPD or Liuchan pop-up dictionary over this as it has support for both Cantonese and Mandarin.</li>
<li><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cantonese-popup-dictionar/pjnbhojkojmibobcpfgihhnohboldhip">CPD (Chrome)</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Browser] Pop-up dictionary.</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/liuchan/">Liuchan (Firefox)</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Browser] Pop-up dictionary.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zdic.net/">Zdic (漢典)</a> [C↔C,EN][Online] Primarily a Mandarin-Mandarin dictionary. Compiles the pretty much everything of readers of Modern Chinese Language need in a single search bar: definitions, translations (probably lifted from MoeDict, sometimes also provides translations along individual senses probably lifted from Xiandai Hanyu Cidian 5th Edition), etymology, 說文解字、康熙詞典), shaped-based input combination lookup (五筆、倉頡、鄭碼), variant characters, readings in related Chinese languages (音韵方言), etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php">MDCG</a> [EN↔ZH][Online] Curators of the CC-CEDICT dictionary that serves as the standard C many reference. Does not show examples unfortunately.</li>
<li><strong>Pleco's Cantonese-English dictionary</strong> <a href="http://cantonese.org/">CC-Canto</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Android][iOS] based on CC-EDictA2 with a human check for differences for Cantonese. Available in Pleco directly.
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<li>现代汉语词典7th Ed. [ZH↔ZH][Book] Standard dictionary that Mainland uses.</li>
<li><a href="http://dictionary.pinpinchinese.com/">Pin Pin</a> [EN↔ZH] Both CC-CEDICT definitions, definitions from Tatoeba, as well as user-submitted definitions.</li>
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<li><a href="http://kaifangcidian.com/">Kaifang Cidian</a> - Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Wu Dictionary</li>
<li><a href="http://minhakka.ling.sinica.edu.tw/bkg/choan-bun-kiam-sek.php">Sinicia</a> - Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Wu Dictionary</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Character Dictionaries (字典)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/">小學堂</a> - This provides topolect-specific (i.e Classical, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, etc.) lookup for characters. Provided by Information Sciences department of Academia Sinica (中央硏究院) university.</li>
<li><a href="http://ccamc.co/">The Complete Collection of Ancient and Modern Characters (古今文字集成)</a> [C↔C,EN][Online], a very comprehensive dictionary covering historical character evolution and etymology, historical pronunciation and usage, and contemporary regional topolect pronunciations. Also includes pronunciations in Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese, along with a reference section for historical languages/scripts such as Tangut (西夏文), ʼPhags-pa (八思巴文), Jurchen (女真文), and Khitan script (契丹文). Allows lookup by radical, character, Unicode, or phonetic lookup. Dictionaries referenced include 漢語大字典, 說文解字, and 康熙字典.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zdic.net/">Zdic (漢典)</a> [C↔C,EN][Online] Primarily a Mandarin-Mandarin dictionary. Compiles the pretty much everything of readers of Modern Chinese Language need in a single search bar: definitions, translations (probably lifted from MoeDict, sometimes also provides translations along individual senses probably lifted from Xiandai Hanyu Cidian 5th Edition), etymology, 說文解字、康熙詞典), shaped-based input combination lookup (五筆、倉頡、鄭碼), variant characters, readings in related Chinese languages (音韵方言), etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://zi.tools/zi/%E4%BD%A0">Zi Tools</a> that breaks down components and presents their oracle bone, seal script, or just a pictograph</li>
<li><a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/">Multi-function Chinese Character Database CC-English-C</a> (Uses homophones in addition to romanisation for pronunciation, for those that are more comfortable with that than romanisation) (Also has audio clips, but those can be a little stretched out to emphasise the tones)</li>
<li>新华字典, the dictionary given free of charge to every Mainland Chinese student</li>
<li>[<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordinterpret.dictionary">Android</a>] <strong>Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)</strong> - Analyses character etymology in Classical Chinese, or more specifically, traces the make-up of seal script (小篆) characters and attempts to explain how the creates their meaning. First published in AD. 121 by Xu Shen (許慎), the version annotated by Qing scholar Duan Yuancai (段玉裁) is frequently referenced by Chinese students even today. The Android app additionally contains a dictionary with definitions in Modern Mandarin (though I am not sure where it pulls its definitions from at the moment).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.zhongwen.com/">Zhongwen</a> [EN↔ZH][Online] (Unrelated to pop-up dictionary). Lightweight and responsive. Alternative to Wenlin for radical-based breakdown of characters and shared-radical map. However, character search does not work (might be encoding issue) and unable to copy paste.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.outlier-linguistics.com/">Outlier Dictionary</a> that offers much more up-to-date. Still in development.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Specialist Dictionaries</h1>
<ul>
<li><strong>Pleco</strong> - A dictionary aggregator, you get a [ZH↔EN] dictionary (CEDICT) for free, but then you can purchase 现代汉语词典, 现代汉语规范词典 etc. Some dictionaries may be downloaded for free, for example, MOEDict, Cross-Straits, CCCanto, and Words.hk. You may wish to look at the following <a href="https://github.com/alexhk90/Pleco-User-Dictionaries">user-land dictionaries</a> assembled by alexhk09</li>
<li><a href="https://baike.baidu.com/">Baidu Baike</a> [ZH→ZH,EN] An encyclopaedia, but it does list definitions.</li>
<li>Wikipedia - Great for translating technical jargon or just generally specific words. Find the article, then click on the Chinese version of that article. Unfortunately filters in and out of being on the blacklist for the Great Firewall of China.</li>
<li><a href="http://hanzicraft.com/">HanziCraft</a>, Breaks down character into radicals and assorted strokes. Also features a table list of homonyms.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Reading Material (閱讀材料)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://storyfree.com/">Storyfree</a> - Children stories</li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chinesebookclub/">Chinese Book Club on Reddit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.tsoidug.org/">Tsoi Dug’s bilingual site</a> - Essays, poetry, articles on culture, etc. in both English and Chinese. </li>
<li><a href="http://cendalirit.blogspot.hk/">每天為你讀一首詩</a> - A blog featuring daily posts on modern Chinese poetry</li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinese-stories.com/">Chinese Stories</a> - Graded Reading. </li>
<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130709010055/http://www.chinesestoriesplatform.com/">Chinese Stories Platform</a> - Graded reading</li>
<li><a href="http://justlearnchinese.com/mini-novels/">Just Learn Chinese</a> - Graded reading</li>
<li><a href="https://www.duchinese.net/">Du Chinese</a> - Phone app. Graded reading with mouse over translations and transliterations</li>
<li><a href="http://www.decipherchinese.com/">Decipher</a> - Phone app with paid service. Daily graded articles.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Newspaper (報紙)</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.thechairmansbao.com/">Chariman's Bao</a> - Newspaper tailored to learners [Graded Reader] (if I recall correctly)</li>
<li><a href="http://mandarinweekly.com/">Mandarin Weekly</a> - A weekly newsletter containing Mandarin study stuff!</li>
<li><a href="http://cn.nytimes.com/">New York Times in Chinese</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mingpao.com/">Ming Pao Newspaper</a> (Trad. Chinese) </li>
<li><a href="https://www.singtao.ca/toronto/">Sing Tao Newspaper</a> (Trad. Chinese) </li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Novels and Visual Novels</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.qidian.com/">Qidian</a> - Probably the largest. You can also find fan translations of some of their stories if you do a bit of searching. They have an energy system that you can make use of to read for free. You can also find several mirror sites.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.xxsy.net/">xxsy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://xs.cn/">xs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jjwxc.net/">jjwxc</a></li>
<li>Cantonese webnovels</li>
<li><a href="https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&fil=olang-zh&rfil=">Chinese Visual Novels originals</a> - In case you don’t know these are basically books with pretty pictures and music in -the background. You can find some of these on Steam. For all translated to Chinese, <a href="https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&fil=lang-zh&rfil=">here</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://forum8.hkgolden.com/topics.aspx?type=SY">HKGolden</a></li>
<li><a href="http://shikoto.com/">Shikoto</a></li>
<li><a href="http://haodoo.net/">Fan-transcribed E-books</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/?sf=1&org=495&sort=abc&order=asc">Novelupdates</a> - In case you want the ~~totally legal~~ fan translations to reference. Fantasy genres <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/36q51h/as_a_chinese_id_like_to_talk_about_those_chinese/">explanations</a> Xianxia has become kinda catch all in English.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Dramas</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.viki.com/">Viki</a> - A legal stream service (thus their catalogue will depend on your country, though you can use a VPN to get around this region lock) that focuses on East Asian media. Their catalogue is a majority Korean drama, though they have Chinese and Taiwanese dramas. They have a useful feature</li>
<li><a href="http://mydramalist.com/">MyDramalist</a> - Drama information and watchlist site </li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPIRD4yr1hlAEovBCSNlAKg">Croton's</a> Official Youtube [ZH]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dnvod.tv/">Dnvod</a> - Loads of films with Chinese subs/dubs.</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Youtube</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://youglish.com/chinese">Mandarin</a> or <a href="https://youglish.com/">English</a> Youglish — Community- and company-provided subtitles to YouTube videos. You can also search for videos with specific words you are looking to hear.</li>
<li><a href="https://mandarinmadeez.com/">Mandarin Madeez</a> - YouTube videos by Fiona Tian, these are awesome!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpuAQiIlxFe0FlR2gXXLUKA/videos?flow=list&view=0&sort=da">Xue Bai’s Youtube Series</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsl59JxjRtBSc3zdt6-Xymw">Mandarin is Awesome</a> - Youtube Mandarin course</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpN2N1K4pWzlW5qDd0HjhDQ">Shawn's Mando Chinese</a> - Youtube Mandarin course</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRLvrbf9kpcOKZxFUpPXHgoAKIr_wHXvP&">Growing Up With Chinese</a> - Youtube Mandarin course</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Other Media</h1>
<ul>
<li>http://live.sk-knower.com/hk - filters twitch Hong Kong streamers</li>
</ul>
</article>
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<h1>Manhua</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.kuaikuaimanhua.com/">Kuai Kuai Manhua</a> - Mandarin</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lianzai.me/">Lianzai</a> - Mandarin</li>
<li><a href="http://www.u17.com/">U17</a> - Mandarin</li>
<li><a href="http://ac.qq.com/">QQ</a> - Mandarin</li>
</ul>
</article>
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<h1>Donghua</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://v.qq.com/">QQ Donghua</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bangumi.bilibili.com/">Bilibili (哔哩哔哩)</a> - also known as B站 the haven of 二次元.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Z7nO8GGZt_FZeG8UMC4Sw">Dai Yi Fansubs</a> - Donghua with English subs</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Audio and Podcasts</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://singchinesesongs.com/">Sing Chinese Songs</a> - Learn Chinese through song. You sing karaoke with Pinyin/characters and then turn off the Pinyin.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.1ting.com/rank/pop.html">Chinese Songs Classics: Yi Ting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://radio.bbtv.cn/">BBTV</a> Radio</li>
<li><a href="http://chinesepod.com/">Chinese Pod</a></li>
<li>Mandarin Audio Books: <a href="http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_epi.php?pid=448">RTHK’s podcast</a> and <a href="http://tingbook.com/">Tingbook</a></li>
<li>Cantonese Audio Books: <a href="http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_epi.php?pid=447">RTHK’s podcasts</a> (Mandarin-original) </li>
<li><a href="http://popupcantonese.com/">Popup cantonese</a></li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Miscellaneous</h1>
<ul>
<li>http://csulb.learningchineseonline.net/ a whole lot of resources</li>
<li><a href="http://www.chinasimplified.com/">China Simplified</a> - Useful articles about studying Mandarin and the language itself.</li>
<li><a href="https://glossika.com/courses/">Glossika’s Courses</a> - A course based on listening to and speaking sentences. Has Cantonese (paid), Hakka (free), Mainland or Taiwan Mandarin (paid), and Taiwanese Hokkien (free) flavours.</li>
<li><a href="http://fluentu.com/">FluentU</a> - A site that provides short Chinese videos with subtitles with characters, Pinyin and English.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lang-8.com/">Lang-8</a> - an exchange based around writing in a foreign language providing corrections. Good for getting grammar corrected. They recommend writing no more than a couple of paragraphs and recommend writing a translation of what you wanted to say.</li>
<li><a href="http://confusedlaowai.com/2013/07/comprehensive-onomatopoeia-list/">Onomatopoeia list</a> - Sound words in Mandarin</li>
<li>http://www.hackingchinese.com/chinese-character-variants-and-fonts-for-language-learners/</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article>
<h1>Calligraphy（書法）</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/nexaitch/152039f1e20c49e93a5505f5fa194e26">Getting started with learning Chinese (or Japanese) Calligraphy</a> by <em>it's yuuu!</em>
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<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/%E5%8F%A4%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%8C%9C%E7%8C%9C%E6%A8%82/id1193864419?mt=8">App for Learning Oracle Bone Script</a> [iOS]</li>
<li><a href="http://www.shufazidian.com/">Calligraphy Dictionary</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvPiCUjsIEaCdYiHtP4pbPg">Youtube channel on handwriting</a> - Goes over several examples and general advice for handwriting in Mandarin. A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s6pxhNql70">fifteen-part series</a> on handwriting characters but in Japanese.</li>
</ul>
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