Collection of resources for your learning journey.

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Downloads

• Vocabulary Lists for HSK1, HSK2, and HSK3
• Pleco flashcards. Massive amount of free flashcards updated regularly

Links

• Mandarinspot - What we use for text annotation.
• Super Chinese is a great learning app.
• Hello Chinese is another great learning app.
• LingoDeer is ok as well and it has a lifetime purchase/unlock.
• Pimsluer is great for learning fast via spoken conversation only (But I find it a bit boring)
• iTalki is great for finding a teacher
• HelloTalk is great for finding language partners and making friends with folks in China
• ChatGPT of Deepseek is great for all kinds of use cases (Generating content, downgrading content to your vocab level, doing translations that are better than google translate)
• Rednote is the Chinese Instagram and open to Foreigners.
• Pleco is available on iOS and Android and is a great dictonary and spaced repitition flashcard tool
• Du Chinese, Read Bean, Chairman Bao are all good reading applications. With Du Chinese being the most popular

We do not recommend duolingo for Chinese Mandarin learning due to it's low quality lessons and directions.