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Mandarin resources (free) Beginner.

HSK 1 LIST

Simplified and Traditional (with pinyin), exercises and sentences examples Link

TONES

*Tone explanation (but with words with more than 1 syllable, which is great because the hard part is when a word has 2 o more syllables) Link

More tones! Link

*Youtube vid explaining tones and exceptions (like tone modification and the half 3 and 4 tones) Link Link2  (edit 1)

** Tone pairs youtube vid by Yoyo Chinese (Individual tones 0:00-8:30 // Tone pairs 8:30-27) Link (edit 10)

Tone pairs chart + Exercises from said chart (edit 9)

Tone pairs + audio for all the tone combinations  Link (Edit 11)

*Exercises: (edit 7)

which tones do you hear (tone pairs)

another which tones do you hear (single syllab or tone pairs) 

match pinyin + tone to the sound

match the sound to the pinyin + tone

differenciate between tones

tone speaking practice (listen and repeat recording yourself)

PINYIN

Pinyin introduction (follow the “Pronunciation Index”) Link (edit 10)

Pinyin chart from Yoyo chinese Link (edit 9)

*Pinyin and tones self quiz (i love this one) Link

*Course: Phonetics with Chinese Characteristics (edit 8)

Youtube (in english) Link

Youtube (in spanish) Link 

Exercises: (edit 7) 

Pinyin spelling

READING, TEXT + AUDIO 

Text with characters, pinyin, english translations and audio Link

Characters with pinyin and audio. Traditional and simplified option. If you click on a word the meaning of it pops up, but not the whole sentence Link

Dialogues with characters, pinyin, translations (in Spanish) and audio Link

Spanish web with different topics and sentences. it has games to practice too Link (edit 4)

Youtube reading for kids. Link1 Link2  (edit 2) (If you  cant find any audiobooks with text, there’s probably someone reading a book of it on youtube) 

Du Chinese (App) Link

Beelingua (App)

SENTENCES

Chengyu list (edit 8)

125 lessons with different sentences. It has characters, audio, pinying and different exercises to test them in each lesson.  Link

Diferent dialogues (directions, weather, introductions, shopping) with audio characters, pinyin and english Link (edit 1)

* Podcast: 2/3 sentences, broken down by topic and by words Link (edit 2) [I use this one when im in the street and i repeat what they say trying to memorise it]

WEB COURSE (edit 5)

From ”ChineseClass101″. Those have characters with the option simplified/traditional, pinyin and english translation. It also comes sometimes with a brief cultural insight and grammar lesson, all with audio and class trasncription. Really useful because besides the audio class, you have a vocab list with the audio option played 0.5x slower

Getting Started

Absolute Beginner Season 1

Level 1 Chinese

FLASHCARDS

Anki, HSK 1 vocab Link

Anki, HSK 1 grammar Link

*TOFU learn ( Web / App) this is like a flashcard app but with the option to quiz yourself (with 6 choices to answer instead of the usual 2) and the exciting part: it can quiz you on the writing too! It has many deck choices too. Big fav of mine (edit 12)

DICTIONARY (edit 6)

Character dictionaries:

Line dict = Pinyin, with audio, english definition, sample sentences and animated stroke order. Also a daily “Today’s expresion/quote” addittion which is cool.

Chinesepod = simplified and traditional, english translation, sample sentences 

Sentence dictionaries:

Chinese yabla = breaks the sentence into words, each one with pinyin and english translation.

EXTENSIONS 

*Language Learning with Youtube, Chrome extension. Allows 2 sets of subtitles (example: vid of Idol Producer)  (edit 9)

*Zhongwen: Chinese-English Dictionary by: Christian Schiller, Chorme extension. Allows you to hoover over the hanzi in Chrome and shows the pinyin and meaning (edit 4)

BOOKS (edit 4)

(Not free, sadly) For grammar and some course book i would recomend

HSK 1

New Practical Chinese Reader 1 Textbook/Workbook

OTHER (random interesting stuff that I don’t know where to put them in this list)

Learn Chinese with Poems, free course (edit 9)

Learn Chinese with Songs, free course (edit 9)

**Frecuency list –> Most common characters and words in: books, movies, components and by HSK. Simplified and traditional options. (Sound, definition, animated stroke order, sentence examples w audio, and writting practice. Very interesting and complete.) (edit 9)

Media input (Videos and Audios with transcriptions and timestamps you can get back to. First click on the character shows pinyin, second click shows meaning.) (edit 9)

Youtube Channel: Learn Chinese with Movies, series and animation (edit 12)

What are your favourite songs and shows to inmerse yourself in mandarin? Please tell me!

My favourite links have a (*)

I might get back to this post and add more useful links when i find more (each time i edit this post i add a little “edit 1 / 2 / 3…”). [This post looks better on the original post/blog, since the linked webs are highlighted and easier to see, and also is more up to date]

Last edited: 13 / December / 2020 = Edit 12

[handweavers]

hey ive got a soft gingerbread recipe from when I worked at an old timey village and it's pretty damn gingery if you want it :)

omg yes please!!!

[shardbearing]

Soft Gingerbread, in The Good Housekeeper by Sarah Josepha Hale (1839). The whole book is available online for free!

[photo id: soft gingerbread. six teacups of flour, three cups of molasses, three cups of cream, two of butter, one table-spoonful of pearlash and the same of ginger. bake in a quick oven about half an hour. end id]

modern translation:

4.5 cups flour (a teacup is equivalent to three quarters of a cup, or six fluid ounces)

2.25 cups molasses (regular, NOT blackstrap!!!) (the cups are assumed to be teacups. that's just how they wrote things back then I guess! saves having to set the type)

2.25 cups cream (we used cream from a local dairy or from our cows, but something fairly heavy would work)

1.5 cups butter (butter was historically salted, though as is now not all salted butter is created equal. use whatever you want really)

1 tablespoon baking powder (in place of pearlash, which is essentially the same thing)

1 tablespoon ginger

preheat oven to 425°F (a quick oven is somewhere between 400-425°F). measure flour into a large bowl. stir in the ginger. feel free to use a large heaping tablespoon, I used one of those in between tablespoon and serving spoon sized ones. cut in the butter as if you were making a pie crust (either with a pastry blender, two forks, or your hands), gently mixing and crushing until it's the consistency of wet sand and it holds its shape but crumbles easily. dissolve the baking powder into the cream, then stir the cream and molasses into the flour/butter/ginger mixture until smooth. careful not to overwork it. I find it helps to warm up the cream and molasses slightly before pouring. pour into brownie pans and bake for about half an hour or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. check often, as modern ovens are much more reliable than fire is and might go quicker. if you're worried about it burning, bake at 400° instead for a longer time.

fair warning: I was told by many people that this gingerbread is delicious, warming, and gingery without being overly sweet or cloying. that being said I absolutely hate ginger (as a standalone dried spice, not the fresh stuff) and molasses and I never personally tried it but the smell alone leads me to believe its gingery enough :)

I made this quite a few times during our Christmas program last year. Gingerbread was not associated with christmas until the late 1800s at the earliest, with the gingerbread house tradition most likely stemming from Nuremberg, Germany's practice of ornate gingerbread cookies. Soft gingerbread and hard gingerbread were eaten in America in similar quantities before it became associated with christmas, purely to each family's preference. Often the only difference between the two recipes was the amount of flour called for, though many early american recipe books list several types. Ginger was one of the most prevalent spices available to nineteenth century new englanders, only following cinnamon in terms of how easy it was to acquire and cheap it was to purchase. Soft gingerbread fell out of western style after hard gingerbread cookies became the christmas favorite for making gingerbread houses and gingerbread men.

I hope you like the gingerbread!!!

[kathleenarchive]

Greetings, for whom that see this content.

If you saw this i just wanna say hi, because i don't expect for someone to see this post. Basically i just wanna say that this is my personal archive about my journey for learning Chinese to pursue my dream and to socialize in my campus, currently i am majoring in Food Science, in Taiwan but lack of speaking and listening skills just kill me in every aspect.

I just wanna make a good sentence so my friends can understand me :)

I will share my progress everyday since my tactic is to learn by songs and by the every sentence that i still can't understand to say in Chinese.

and hey you, that one saw this post, i am demanding your help if you really good at daily conversational and expressions especially for taiwanese terms :)

;))

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