I have decided not to do general reviews on Hacking Chinese, but instead only write about resources I thoroughly recommend. Whenever I stumble upon something which is really good or exceptionally useful for other learners, I will write about it. Thus, these are recommendations rather than reviews.
If you want a more comprehensive archive of resources, head over to Hacking Chinese Resources instead.
If you have a particular resource you’d like to recommend, please let me know. I can’t guarantee that I will check it out or that I will write a recommendation even if I do, but I’m always interested in expanding my horizons.
These are all the articles in this category:
- Welcome to The Fluent Listener, a new course from Hacking Chinese!
- Student Q&A, November 2024: Pros and cons of digital tools for Chinese reading, and the struggle to find comprehensible and interesting texts
- How to learn Zhuyin (Bopomofo) in two hours
- YouGlish: A free service to hear and see Chinese words in context
- Three things I wish I had known as a beginner student of Chinese: The time machine, part 1
- The 10 best free Chinese listening resources for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners
- 24 great resources for improving your Mandarin pronunciation
- Interview: Insights from Skritter’s Complete Guide to Learning Chinese
- The best podcasts for learning Chinese in 2024
- Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass review: Understand more, learn faster, remember longer
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2023
- Black Friday discounts for Hacking Chinese courses
- The 10 best free Chinese reading resources for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners
- Shapeshifting Chinese characters
- Student Q&A, October 2023: Expanding vocabulary quickly, learning by watching videos and nailing dictation tests
- Skritter review: Boosting your Chinese character learning
- How learning some basic theory can improve your Mandarin pronunciation
- Beginner Chinese listening practice: What to listen to and how
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2022
- Kickstart your learning with the Skritter Character Course
- Chinese language question triage: When to ask whom about what
- Why you should use more than one Chinese textbook
- How to learn Chinese pronunciation as a beginner
- 500 resources for learning and teaching Chinese, tagged by level, topic and type
- Learning Classical Chinese is for everyone (no, seriously!)
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2021
- The best Chinese reading practice for beginners
- The building blocks of Chinese, part 2: Basic characters, components and radicals
- The building blocks of Chinese, part 1: Chinese characters and words in a nutshell
- Chinese language logging, part 3: Tools and resources for keeping track of your learning
- Chinese language learning in the twenty-first century: Towards a digital ecosystem? Interview with Julien Leyre
- Learning science in Chinese with 李永乐老师
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2020
- Review: Learning Chinese by video immersion with FluentU
- New course: Unlocking Chinese – The Ultimate Guide for Beginners
- Review: Mandarin Companion: Easy to read novels in Chinese
- 101 questions and answers about how to learn Chinese
- The most common Chinese words, characters and components for language learners and teachers
- Free and easy audio flashcards for Chinese dictation practice with Anki
- Focusing on Chinese tones without being distracted by Pinyin
- How and why to learn and teach Chinese through games
- 866 digital textbooks for expanding your Chinese
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2017
- Introducing Chinese quiz tournaments on WordSwing
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2016
- Expanding your Chinese with 一步一个脚印
- Escape: A text adventure game for Chinese learners
- I have published a book!
- ChinesePod review: Your companion to Mandarin fluency
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2015
- Zooming out: The resources you need to put Chinese in context
- Zooming in: The tools you need to break down and understand Chinese
- Which Chinese learning tools and resources are worth paying for?
- Chinese listening practice with 锵锵三人行
- Review: Mandarin Companion graded readers (Level 1)
- Launching Hacking Chinese Resources
- 5 websites to help answer your questions about Chinese
- Using Audacity to learn Chinese (speaking and listening)
- 21 essential dictionaries and corpora for learning Chinese
- 31 Twitter feeds to help you learn Chinese
- Using Lang-8 to improve your Chinese
- Review: The Phonology of Standard Chinese
- Learning simplified and traditional Chinese
- About opening doors and the paths beyond
- The Chinese-Chinese dictionary survival guide
- Chinese vocabulary in your pocket
- Review: Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary
- Using search engines to study Chinese
- Anki, the best of spaced repetition software
- Spaced repetition software and why you should use it