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Always wanted to know the names of all countries in Chinese? Yes, me too!

Here you go! Part 1. Africa

Keep an eye out for Part 2. North America and South America

The Super Chinese team

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What apps are on your phone?

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One way to work on your Chinese characters is by learning about radicals. Here are some of the most common ones, sigh their Chinese name.

Fun fact: this is how Chinese people introduce their surname, or any character for that matter. Say my name is “yu”, I can then say, 言字旁的”语”。try it out for your own Chinese name, you’ll sound super native!

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Eggs, anyone?

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Some antonyms today!

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This article has a kind of misleading title, but it also gives good advice about learning Chinese!

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Chinese Writing Resources

Hi everyone! I finally made a masterpost of Chinese writing resources. I’ll probably add to it eventually but for now I hope people find it useful. ^_^

Basics

Chinese characters

Four main types of Chinese characters

Strokes and Stroke Order

Stroke (CJKV character)

Stroke Order

Chinese Writing Tutorial: The strokes

Chinese Writing Tutorial: The stroke order

How to write Chinese characters

7 Basic Rules to Chinese Stroke Order

Basic Rules for Writing Chinese Characters

YellowBridge: Mandarin-English Dictionary & Thesaurus  (Look up a word and click on the “Strokes” tab to see an animation of the stroke order!)

LINE Chinese-English Dictionary (You can also look up words and see the stroke order using this website.)

Characters and Character Components (Phonetic Components and Semantic Components)

Creating a powerful toolkit: Character components

Creating a powerful toolkit: Individual characters

Phonetic components, part 1: The key to 80% of all Chinese characters

HanziCraft (Use this site to split characters into their components!)

Traditional Chinese Characters (You can also use this site to split character into their components, but it seems harder to use.)

Hanzi Grids (You can use this site to print out grids to practice writing!)

Words

Creating a powerful toolkit: Characters and words

Learning Chinese words really fast

Other Tips

Learn by exaggerating: Slow, then fast; big, then small 

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Yesterday I spent more time looking for Chinese podcasts than I did listening to them. :-/ On the bright side, I found a few free ones that look promising: Growing up with Chinese, Popup Chinese, and Yep!Chinese. Those are good for learning Chinese, and then there are some more advanced podcasts listed here that might be good too.

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This is a pretty cool blog about learning Chinese and living in or visiting China. 

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Chinese Pinyin Resources

Basics

Introduction to Pinyin

Pīnyīn.info (a guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Romanization)

Pinyin

Pronunciation

Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Chart with Audio (click on the pinyin to hear it pronounced)

Pinyin chart (similar to the first pronunciation link, but you can also see the IPA)

Reading

Chinese Annotation Tool (annotates Chinese character with the pinyin and translations)

Chinese Pinyin Phonetic Transcription Converter (converts simplified or traditional characters into IPA or pinyin; does other cool things like highlight HSK levels!)

Writing

Pinyin Editor (allows you to write pinyin directly on your computer)

Pinyin Tone Tool (converts pinyin with numbers into pinyin with tone marks)

Chinese Input Method Editor (converts pinyin to Chinese characters)

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bermudienne said: There are cool apps that will listen to you say a character and let you know if you did the tone and pronuc. right. I think it’s called pinyin something or other. It also makes you guess what tone you just heard

Awesome, I think I found the app. Pin Pin or Pinyin Trainer? They both look pretty cool. :D

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Many of you have a thorough knowledge of written and spoken Chinese, but there has still to be someone wishing to learn the basics of this unusual writing… the secrets of Chinese characters, their history, their romanization and the elements that compose them. The following tutorial is meant to provide beginners all they need to write Chinese characters and find them in a dictionary, but can also amuse advanced students and the curious. Though this is not a language tutorial, learning the fundamental strokes and their correct order helps memorize characters and is an indispensable basis to learn written Chinese. Each lesson provides many examples of single characters and compounds (no Chinese wordprocessor needed to read these pages: all characters will be downloadable images).