Chinese Learning Resources for Every Skill
Whether you’re starting from scratch, building your vocabulary, trying to understand spoken Mandarin, or preparing for the HSK, here are the courses, practice materials, dictionaries, and study tools worth knowing about.
Start and study systematically
When you don’t yet know what to study next, a structured course hands you a sequence to follow.
Follow a guided beginner Mandarin course with speaking and listening drills.
Study Chinese through a structured, multi-skill lesson path.
Take structured Chinese lessons that explain grammar as you go.
Learn pronunciation and grammar through sequenced video lessons.
Keep a light, familiar daily Chinese habit going.
Work through a game-like Chinese course from beginner levels up.
Vocabulary and grammar
Find new words, review them so they stick, and understand the patterns that hold sentences together.
Trace each HSK word back to the real episodes where it appears, with pinyin and audio.
See each HSK pattern inside real episode transcripts, then open its plain-English explanation.
Look up grammar explanations and example sentences by pattern.
Read levelled vocabulary lists and explanations of easily confused words.
Build or study spaced-repetition Chinese flashcard decks.
Review Chinese vocabulary with a managed spaced-repetition workflow.
Follow structured Chinese and HSK video lessons.
Listen and understand
Train your ear with audio built for learners, so spoken Chinese stops racing past you.
Listen to fresh Mandarin stories based on real news, rewritten to your level, with transcript help when you get stuck.
Listen to conversational Mandarin explained for learners.
Practise listening with graded Chinese stories and dialogues.
Learn through topic-based Mandarin audio lessons across levels.
Watch and hear real Chinese conversations with subtitles.
Read Chinese
Read material written or graded for your level, so characters build up instead of blocking you.
Read one current story across four HSK bands, then switch to its matching audio.
Read graded Chinese stories with tap-to-look-up and audio.
Read Chinese news lessons sorted by HSK difficulty.
Read full Chinese books written within a small character set.
Read Chinese texts with pinyin, audio, and built-in support.
Find free Chinese reading material sorted by level.
Look up pronunciation and characters
Check a word, a tone, or how a character is built the moment you need to.
Look up words, example sentences, and characters on your phone.
Search by Chinese, pinyin, or English meaning in the browser.
Use an English-supported Chinese dictionary with character breakdowns.
Check pinyin initials, finals, and tones with audio.
Inspect a character’s components, history, and related forms.
Check stroke order and generate character writing worksheets.
Practise writing Chinese characters from memory with feedback.
HSK, writing, and speaking
Prepare for the exam, get your writing corrected, and put your spoken Chinese to work.
Compare word counts and exam formats, then test your level with HSK-calibrated audio.
Find official HSK exam information, dates, and registration.
Add pinyin and glosses to any Chinese text you paste in.
Post short Chinese writing and get corrections from native speakers.
Record Chinese sentences and compare them against a native model.
Book one-to-one lessons and speaking feedback with Chinese teachers.
Compare apps in depth
This page points you at the right kind of resource. When you want to weigh specific apps — what they cost, what they’re good at, and where they fall short — that comparison lives on one page.