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Questions concerning search and sharing of supplementary resources used in the process of language study: books, articles, links to Web sites, audio and video recordings, corpora, etc. Click on "Learn more..." to have more information on how to use this tag.
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Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese
This is a community-maintained list of resources for learning Mandarin Chinese.
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Where to look for history and etymology of Chinese characters? For example 工
Is there a website where I can look for history and etymology of Chinese characters? For example 工.
It can be a Chinese website (I am VERY new to Chinese). But better in English.
Please also drop ...
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Useful sites/services/resources/tools for learning Chinese [closed]
As discussed on Meta, I think it would be great to have a collection of sites and resources for learning Chinese, so that we can all benefit from the sites, services and resources that other members ...
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Are there any dictionaries that show the relative frequency of 多音字?
Some characters have multiple pronunciations (多音字), but often some pronunciations are much more common. For example, 吗 is almost always used as a question particle pronounced ma, but occasionally it ...
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Where can I find "A Course of Lessons in Spoken Mandarin" ( 《华英联珠分类集成》)?
孔夫子旧书网 is selling "A Course of Lessons in Spoken Mandarin" ( 《华英联珠分类集成》) for 13000.00元.
I'm not sure who has that kind of dough to drop on a book, but it's certainly not me.
Some have used it to ...
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What's a good place to look up the etymology of certain Chinese words that aren't immediately obvious?
Many Chinese words make a lot of sense when you consider the meanings of individual characters. However, others aren't quite as obvious at first glance.
For example, Why does 有机 as in 有机食品 mean ...
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Useful resources for learning Taiwanese?
My girlfriend is from Fujian and speaks 闽南语, so I am trying to learn so I can communicate with her family better.
The struggle is finding any useful resources (even in Chinese), so I'm wondering if ...
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Resources for learning Cantonese
I'd like to learn Cantonese. Does anyone know some good resources (books, websites) that provide a thorough introduction into the language? I know that the pronunciation is a lot harder than in ...
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Pinyin tones pronunciation cheat sheet
I've just started taking Chinese lessons, and I've been trying to find a "cheat sheet" for pinyin pronunciation. All the sites I've found is either incomplete (only having some tones), only having the ...
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Is there an authoritative list of most frequent to most infrequent pronunciations for individual Chinese characters?
I'm working on a dictionary tool that provides, as an auto-assist, transcription of Chinese characters into corresponding (Modern Standard Mandarin) pinyin+tones on a naive, character-per-character ...
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Hanban/HSK Official Website Resources Download
Does anybody know where to find the most recent HSK test materials, especially the vocabulary lists to download?
I have checked the official site, but the 资料下载 'button' doesn't work
UPDATE: Found it....
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Resources: Modern Chinese -> Classical Chinese (Dictionary/References/etc.)
There's a similar question here:
what are some dictionaries about vocabulary of classical chinese?
but I think my question is a little different.
For instance if I want to find the classical ...
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Web Developer Vocabulary
I'm looking for a list of vocabulary used for developer / programming terminology, with such terms as "Constructors", " Framework", "DI", "CMS" or other similar ...
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Resources for learning Shanghainese
I'm surprised a question like this hasn't been asked yet. It seems Shanghainese is a dying language and it's rarely spoken. I'd like to know about resources and ways to learn the language by myself.
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Are there online resources for learning the Chongqing dialect?
I'd like to learn the Chongqing dialect or chongqinghua. If anyone can help me to find resources like phrasebooks, differences with putonghua, or any article on this topic, I would be thankful.
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bkrs Chinese dictionary?
I’ve seen that some users like to refer to a dictionary called bkrs (or: 大 БКРС) in their comments.
I’ve been on the website (https://bkrs.info), but since I don’t know Russian, I don’t understand it.
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Other than ChinaSMACK, do any other glossaries of acronyms used in Chinese, like PK, ZF, GCD, TMD, JC, etc exist?
This is the ChinaSMACK glossary. Wondering how outdated it is. Would something more up to date and/or more comprehensive exist, or this is pretty much it?
Edit: Found This from Baidu. Very useful, ...
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Is there a dictionary that includes word collocations (词语搭配)?
Is there a decent dictionary that includes word collocations (词语搭配), or words that the searched word cannot be used with?
I use Pleco, but one of my largest complaints with it is that there's really ...
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Chinese characters picture dictionary / mnemonics?
Are there any commonly used dictionaries of picture (mnemonic) representation of chinese characters?
I mean dictionary to convert SINGLE character to a picture, not a picture to a word (i.e. not just ...
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List of historical Chinese currency terms
Does anyone know where I can find a list of terms used for units of currency throughout the history of China? I am especially interested in finding those terms that can function as 量词, like 文 and 贯. ...
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Are there other similar Mandarin Chinese radio plays? [closed]
I used to listened to this Buddhist stories radio play (空中结缘） some time ago. It's aired weekly by RTHK/香港电台 and apart from the recitations from Buddhist scriptures, I think the dialog parts are pretty ...
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What kind of resources should a beginner look for to help with similarly pronounced words?
Serveral chinese characters sound extremely similarly to me, not only because of their vowel's tone, but, often, also because of their starting consonants.
For example, I find it's very difficult to ...
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Which word processors and websites support vertical writing of Chinese?
I am aware of 好讀, which allows you to read Chinese novels displayed vertically.
Is there a convenient (preferably free of charge) word processor if I wish to type a Chinese document vertically?
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Books/websites for learning Chinese business letters [duplicate]
Does anyone know/recommend books/websites for learning to write business letters in Chinese?
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Decent OCR for Chinese? [duplicate]
I used Pleco on iOS to recognize the characters in the table of contents of a book. The font was a simulation of handwriting, so I was quite surprised at better than ninety percent accuracy. Although, ...
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