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📣 gtirloni

Any good resources for learning Chinese?


Any good resources for learning Chinese?


  👤 tony Accepted Answer ✓
I have some CJK tools, but honestly think Pleco (https://www.pleco.com/, as a sibling commenter pointed out) is the best tool available by far. You can add-on as many dictionaries as you like.

I re-launched a website today Chinese Flashcards: https://www.hskflashcards.com/ - navigate cards with swipes on mobile, hjkl and arrow keys. It's in a very early state at the moment, though

- CLI tool for looking on hanzi characters here: https://cihai-cli.git-pull.com/

I split it into library components so you can use the stuff under the hood piecemeal if you do Python:

- https://cihai.git-pull.com/: python library for accessing cjk data

- https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com/ extract data from the Unicode’s Han Unification (UNIHAN) database (https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com/unihan.html)


👤 idoescompooters
HelloTalk app gives you immersion by constantly texting or voice calling Chinese users to practice language. I highly recommend. It's very easy to use it on a daily basis to keep seeing Chinese characters and also practice speaking.

👤 zhangxinxu
I'm a Chinese and I'd recommend you to browse those Chinese specific websites/use Chinese apps. Following are some of them.

zhihu.com alternative to quara.com

weibo.com => twitter.com

baidu.com => google.com

douban.com => imdb.com (Why not watching some funny Chinese TV shows :))

douyin => tiktok

You may not retrieve correct information/opinion there, but it's a good way to learn Chinese language.


👤 ximeng
https://www.skritter.com for writing

Pleco for dictionary

HelloTalk for connecting with natives


👤 zzo38computer
Do you intend to learn writing Chinese or speaking Chinese? They are different.