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Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese
Social Media
Discord
30 Days of Chinese is for sharing your Chinese studies.
Reddit r/ChineseLanguage
Facebook
Business Chinese Learning
CCTV中文 Chinese news.
Chinese Class 101
CRI Learn Chinese
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How to catch up with advanced group?
try "http://www.wannalearn.com/" search "chinese"
"http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons" scroll down to "chinese" section
"https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page"
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Which Mandarin learning textbooks have the largest amount of practical exercises?
You can find some bookstores near the Elementary Schools (小學).
If you see some signs like 國小參考書, go to find 參考書 (references) or 評量題 (examinations) for the first or second grade (一、二年級). 參考書 include ...
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Where to look for history and etymology of Chinese characters? For example 工
The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, when it's finally ready, will be a user-friendly reference about the etymology of Chinese characters, together with mnemonics that can help learning them. ...
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Are there any dictionaries that show the relative frequency of 多音字?
As far as I know, there is one dictionary for this: 《现代汉语频率词典》，1986，北京语言学院出版社.
However, this dictionary is a little old and difficult to find. What's more, some of the readings are outdated, because 《...
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Web Developer Vocabulary
access level - 存取權限 (访问级别)
algorithm - 演算法 (算法)
array - 陣列（数组）
array index - 陣列索引 （数组索引）
async - (异步)
binary tree - (二叉树)
build - (构建)
catch (like try/catch) - (捕获)
char - 字元 (字符)
class - 類別 （类）
class ...
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Is there a list / database of Chinese mathematical terms (for complex math)?
It should be called 专业英语 in different area （it's for Chinese to learn English terms, but i think it will also help you） . For example, my bachelor degree is engineer, i used to learn "工程专业英语"...
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Is there a list / database of Chinese mathematical terms (for complex math)?
the national academy for educational research, of taiwan 🇹🇼 maintained files (pdf or excel) of bilingual terms, for mathematics, there’re five:
數學名詞
兩岸對照名詞-數學
數學名詞-兩岸中小學教科書名詞
數學名詞-兩岸數學名詞
高中以下數學名詞
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Are there any datasets or spreadsheets that contain the most popular Chinese characters and their components?
Make me a Hanzi
This database dictionary.txt gives the decompositions of characters into components:
{"character":"侈","definition":"luxurious, extravagant",&...
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Chinese TV shows with northern Chinese accents
Update history:
OCT27 2015: Write down the 1,2,3 parts
OCT28 2015: add the 4th part
OCT28 2015: add explanation to @tofu_bacon
NOV01 2015: Note which is TV.
explanation to @tofu_bacon
Shalom, my ...
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Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese
Lists of Resources
Awesome Chinese NLP lists Chinese natural language processing resources.
Chinese Discord Resource for the 看剧学汉语 Discord: TV shows sources; listening; reading; TV show ...
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Where to look for history and etymology of Chinese characters? For example 工
http://www.chineseetymology.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?characterInput=%E8%BB%8A&submitButton1=Etymology
This website gives origins for many characters, as well as pictures of some earlier forms (...
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Where to look for history and etymology of Chinese characters? For example 工
May I suggest 漢語多功能字庫, maintained by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which has a Chinese/English interface, shows character in various scripts, components and pronunciations; and explains ...
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Where to look for history and etymology of Chinese characters? For example 工
This online dictionary seems the right tool for you
http://www.zdic.net/
It looks up the character's definition in several modern and ancient dictionaries, you can also see how the pronunciation and ...
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Web Developer Vocabulary
"constructor": "构造函数"
"framework": "框架"
"dependency injection": "依赖注入"
"content management system": "内容管理系统"
Instead of looking for a word table, you can refer to textbooks that cover programming ...
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How to find earliest usage of a term?
This question could be split into two types of terms: new expressions & old expressions.
I would rather split it into the following:
Textual usage in the classics & history, and later
Pre-...
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Are there any datasets or spreadsheets that contain the most popular Chinese characters and their components?
I created a Chrome extension that can track how frequent the word/character is used based on the Chinese websites you frequently read or visited
If you need to access the database, press F12 and then ...
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Is there a Chinese WordNet?
For the Simplified Chinese script, there is Chinese Open Wordnet which you can search online.
This is part of Open Multilingual Wordnet, which also links to a smaller project called Chinese WordNet ...
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Is there a comprehensive list of separable verbs (离合动词) anywhere?
I agree with the earlier answer, but I had the same question!
So if it can help, I found an interesting information at Chinese Grammar Wiki's list of separable verbs
and especially at “Separable ...
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Is there a place to find extremely simple stories?
Possibilities here
I sometimes read essays written by Chinese children: RuiWang's 作文. They have all levels for free, starting from 一年级 (grade 1).
You can find many English novels translated into ...
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Database of Chinese translations of given names?
the national academy fro educational research (國家教育研究院) of taiwan, maintained the bilingual data, several of these database are name related, and all of them are free to download 😸
學術名詞下載
entries ...
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Is there an Android app that pressing on words translates them?
I found the Pleco app manages to do this task using the (free) option Screen Reader:
For example, browsing online in a website:
If we press on the button
, the app recognizes the characters and ...
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Information about the Nantong dialect
Here are some documents about Nantong dialect, but it's still difficult for Chinese in other areas.
http://wapwenku.baidu.com/view/09e3c92aaaea998fcc220e42.html?ssid=0&from=1099b&uid=0&...
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Learning resources for Minjiang dialect (岷江话)?
There are some audio resources you can find online.
Four recital audios in 乐山方言 by a native speaker, which maybe useful for audition.
A community of 岷江话：there are some resources
This is my first ...
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How can I convert Chinese characters sketched with my mouse, into computerised characters?
There are many online OCR input websites. For example:
http://www.yibizi.com/html5/ (neat and fast, without ads, but seems only working inside China)
I strongly suggest you install a client software ...
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Resources for learning Cantonese
Hey guys (and gals) learning Cantonese!
I've recently started a resource on learning Cantonese, and am constantly updating it with more content. Here's a preview of what I have currently:
1. The ...
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Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese
Online Tests
How many characters do I know?
Clavas Sinica
Quick Test at Chinesepedia.
汉语识字量测试
HanziShan
hanzi.sjz.io
Hanzi Quest
Hanzi Test by @ericrjiang.
HSK Level (includes HSK 3.0)
Word Swing
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Chinese characters picture dictionary / mnemonics?
Chineasy
(Not a complete dictionary, per-se, though)
Dezeen did a pretty interesting review of it here:
Chineasy illustrated characters designed to make learning Chinese easy
This system of ...
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Is there a list on the web where I can find Cantonese special characters and their meaning?
You can check out wikipedia's page for Written Cantonese which contains a lot of information like borrowed characters, marked phonetic loans and workarounds but the page I'm guessing you're looking, ...
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Where to find questions from the imperial exam?
about the imperial examinaion (科舉制度), i recommend the book 釧影樓回憶錄 by 包天笑 (page 81-103). it talked about his experience (~1890) to attend the 縣試, 府試 and 院試 (the first three entry level exams) with ...
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