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Zhangkai Chinese [GREAT RESOURCE!!!]

  • [ y ] 02-20-2025 Zhangkai Chinese. “Learn Chinese Through Chinese New Year (Comprehensible Input)”.

Brian Wiles

  • [ y ] 03-21-2024 Brian Wiles. “How to Learn Chinese (Mandarin) On Your Own for FREE”.

Canto to Mando.

  • [ y ] 03-07-2026 “How Chinese Readers Understand Characters They Never Learned”.

  • [ y ] 02-24-2026 “The 3,000-Year-Old Hack Natives Use to Decode Chinese”.

  • [ y ] 10-06-2025 “How Mandarin Took Over China”.

  • [ y ] 09-29-2025 “How China’s Using Ancient Politics to Name Your Country”.

  • [ y ] 07-24-2025 “How Modern Technology Is Reviving An Ancient Chinese Problem”.

  • [ y ] 07-14-2025 “Why Your Brain Doesn’t Understand Fast Chinese (Get Better at Listening!)”.

  • [ y ] 09-03-2024 “Why ‘Simplified’ Chinese Isn’t That Simple”.

Julesy

  • [ y ] 02-28-2026 “The Many “Dialects” of China Explained”.

  • [ y ] 02-13-2026 “Why Southern China Has So MANY Dialects (& the North So Few)”.

  • [ y ] 01-30-2026 “Why Chinese had no word for “She” until the 20th century”.

  • [ y ] 11-04-2025 “Why Morse Code Didn’t Work for Chinese — and the Genius Fix”.

  • [ y ] 10-02-2025 “The Strange Reason Chinese Doesn’t Borrow Words”.

  • [ y ] 09-10-2025 “How Chinese Characters Almost Died”.

  • [ y ] 07-22-2025 “Why so much modern Chinese vocabulary was made in Japan”.

  • [ y ] 03-13-2025 “How Does Taiwanese Mandarin Differ From Standard Mandarin?”.

  • [ y ] 11-20-2024 The SECRET to Perfect Mandarin Tone Pronunciation 🇨🇳”.

Langfocus

  • [ y ] 07-30-2024 “Can Japanese Speakers Read Chinese?”.

  • [ y ] 06-07-2024 “Can Chinese Speakers Read Japanese?”.

  • [ y ] 01-27-2018 “How Similar Are Mandarin and Cantonese?”.

  • [ y ] 05-30-2016 “How Similar Are Chinese and Japanese?”.

Learn Chinese Now

  • [ y ] 01-12-2026 “The NEW Chinese Gender-Neutral Pronoun EXPLAINED”.

  • [ y ] 12-22-2025 “Alternative Chinese Writing Systems You NEVER Knew Existed”.

  • [ y ] 03-30-2025 “How China Convinced Everyone to Speak ONE Language”.

  • [ y ] 12-29-2024 “Why Every Chinese Name Tells a Unique Story”.

Mandarin Blueprint

  • [ y ] 02-06-2026 “The Hidden Advantage of Learning Chinese After 30”.

  • [ y ] 01-30-2026 “How I’d Learn Chinese If I Only Had 30 Minutes a Day”.

  • [ y ] 02-21-2025 “Master These Tiny Chinese Words For HUGE Speaking Gains”.

  • [ y ] 12-19-2024 “Chinese Words That Make You Fluent FAST”.

  • [ y ] 10-02-2024 “了 le Chinese Character Masterclass”.

  • [ y ] 09-10-2024 “100 Most Important Chinese Verbs You Need to Know”.

  • [ y ] 06-18-2024 “99 Must-Know Chinese Words & Phrases (For Beginners)”.

  • [ y ] 01-08-2024 “How Chinese Characters Work”.

  • [ y ] 03-03-2023 “How to Learn Chinese: The Ultimate Guide”.

  • [ y ] 12-23-2022 “Mandarin Pronunciation: Everything You Need to Know in Under 1 Hour”.

More

  • [ y ] 12-07-2024 caddberrie. “all the ✨beginner resources✨ you need to start learning Mandarin 🇨🇳”.

  • [ y ] 10-07-2024 Chill With Chinese. “300+ Action Verbs in Chinese for Daily Use| Part 1| Chinese Vocabulary with Pictures| 300 多个 常用 动词”.

Chinese Daily Podcast

  • [ y ] 07-19-2025 “HSK 1–2 | 为什么学了很久还是不会说中文？| Why You Still Can’t Speak Chinese?”.

Chinese Teacher - Red

  • [ y ] 02-03-2026 “Beyond “Duì”: How to Naturally Agree & Show You’re Listening in Chinese”.

Chinese With Kantulaev 孔凯风

  • [ y ] 02-03-2026 “Lesson 9. HSK 2 - New Course. Chinese Full Course From Zero. Examples. Characters and Pronunciation”.

Chinese with Mandarin HQ

  • [ y ] 09-24-2025 “Learn 500 Chinese Words By Only Memorizing 10 Things! (The Secret to Learning Characters Hanzi)”.

Dr. Izzy Sealey

  • [ y ] 07-14-2021 “How I learned Mandarin Chinese in 6 months self-taught at home”.

Everyday Hanzi

  • [ y ] 01-05-2026 “How Are Chinese Characters Formed? | 3 Major Types Explained”.

  • [ y ] 11-27-2025 “Write 100 Basic Chinese Characters | stroke orders #Chinese writing#kanji”.

Grace Mandarin Chinese

  • [ y ] 02-15-2026 Grace Mandarin Chinese. “10 Chinese Slang Words Textbooks Don’t Teach (But Everyone Uses!)”.

Hui’s Aujourd’hui

  • [ y ] 02-02-2026 “Chinese Is Hard, even for Native Speakers. Here’s Why”.

Inkbox

  • [ y ] 04-25-2022 “漢字, Kanji, Hanzi, Hanja - How Many Characters are there? - A look at ancient and modern history”.

Japanese Calligrapher Takumi

  • [ y ] 03-03-2023 “How to write 100 Basic Chinese Characters | Chinese handwriting | For beginners”.

  • [ y ] 02-27-2023 “Differences between Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese Kanji | Handwriting”.

JM Shen

  • [ y ] 02-09-2025 “How do natives Learn Chinese(Using Real Textbooks!)”.

K Klein

  • [ y ] 12-19-2021 “Chinese Doesn’t Have Many Syllables (And Why That’s Interesting)”.

Lang Dojo

  • [ y ] 07-12-2025 “Learn Chinese FAST - Master the Basics in 20 Min!”.

LangAdvance Chinese

  • [ y ] 06-19-2025 “Master Chinese Like a Native - HSK 1 Foundations”.

Learn Chinese With Cdramas

  • [ y ] 06-19-2025 “50 Essential Chinese Words & Phrases Every Beginner Must Know - Learn Chinese with Cdramas!”.

Learn Mandarin Chinese In 5 Minutes

  • [ y ] 02-22-2026 “The Secret Life of 之 (zhī): The Invisible Structure of Chinese Sentences”.

  • [ y ] 10-11-2025 “Stop Memorizing! Learn the Secret Formula of Chinese Characters”.

Linglong Mandarin Chinese

  • [ y ] 06-13-2022 “Learning Chinese is NOT as Hard as You Think”.

LingoLizard

  • [ y ] 07-27-2022 “What Makes Simplified Chinese So Simple”.

MandoTalk

  • [ y ] 01-02-2026 “100 Essential Chinese Words”.

  • [ y ] 12-08-2025 “100 Must Know Chinese Words”.

  • [ y ] 11-10-2025 “100 Essential Chinese Phrases”.

  • [ y ] 10-18-2025 “100 Basic Chinese Words”.

  • [ y ] 10-10-2025 “Useful Chinese for Beginners | Chinese Listening”.

NativLang

  • [ y ] 02-28-2018 “What “Ancient” Chinese Sounded Like - and how we know”.

Offbeat Mandarin

  • [ y ] 01-11-2026 “How Do Chinese People Actually Type?”.

Olly Richards

  • [ y ] 02-18-2022 “The Chinese Language: The Fiery Story of the World’s Biggest Language”.

Sing Chinese Songs With Fei

  • [ y ] 02-28-2026 “How to Pronounce Ch and q in Chinese (Airflow Training)”.

  • [ y ] 01-12-2026 “Stop Saying “Shie Shie”! Fix Your Chinese “X” Sound Instantly (The Physics Trick)”.

Skritter

  • [ y ] 02-04-2026 “Why is the Chinese Character for “Zero” So Complicated? (零)”.

smolbiskit

  • [ y ] 11-20-2025 “How I Learned Fluent Mandarin Chinese | 100% Self taught 🇨🇳”.

Tess 泰丝 Chinese

  • [ y ] 05-31-2025 “If I Had to Learn Chinese Again From Scratch, Here’s What I’d Do”.

That Girl in China

  • [ y ] 10-17-2025 “Why Chinese People Don’t Say “Thank You”? | It’s Not What You Think #chinesecultures”.

The Chinese Alphabet

  • [ y ] 02-14-2022 “Classical Chinese in modern China”.

The World Is Our Thing

  • [ y ] 09-07-2020 “Learn Chinese Tones — A New Way To Master Them, Once and For All”.

Will Hart 何威

  • [ y ] 02-02-2026 “My EXACT System To Speak FLUENT Mandarin Fast”.

  • [ y ] 10-06-2025 “Near-Native Mandarin in 1.5 Years (The 4-Step Method)”.

  • [ y ] 12-23-2024 “This trick will skyrocket your Chinese speaking”.

YanEasyChinese

  • [ y ] 09-08-2025 “5 Essential Chinese Characters to Instantly Learn 80 Words | Beginner Must-Know Part4”.

Yaya老师

  • [ y ] 02-03-2026 “Chinese Pronunciation for Absolute Beginners: Pinyin Lesson 1 | Systematic Mandarin Pinyin Series”.

Zhangkai Chinese

  • [ y ] 01-20-2026 “真正的学习中文的方法就在这里”.

Zoe.languages

  • [ y ] 02-08-2026 “China’s Real Language Map (It’s Not Just Mandarin and Cantonese)”

  • [ y ] 05-01-2023 “Korean vs Japanese vs Chinese: which is the hardest?”.

  • [ y ] 04-14-2023 “How to learn Mandarin Chinese from 0-fluency ? (Resources, Methods and Study Plans)”.

More

  • [ y ] 03-04-2026 Aiden Qiu China. “Is Cantonese Disappearing in China? I Asked People in Guangdong”.

  • [ y ] 03-21-2024 Brian Wiles. “How to Learn Chinese (Mandarin) On Your Own for FREE”.

  • [ y ] 02-21-2026 Chloe Chinese Class. “Learn Chinese Through Real Chat | “除了…以外”:Besides | HSK 3 grammar｜Chinese podcast（ Pinyin & CC SUB)”.

  • [ y ] 03-08-2026 Everyday Chinese. “I got the New HSK 1 textbook! (HSK 3.0) | The New HSK 1 Textbook VS The Old HSK 1 Textbook”.

  • [ y ] 03-14-2025 FluentU Chinese. “Learn Chinese with TV Shows: SpongeBob Gets New Pants!”.

  • [ y ] 11-02-2025 Hepsima 何逐日. “ancient poems & local chinese dialects 🌸”.

  • [ y ] 09-01-2020 KEYs to Chinese. “A Comprehensive Chinese Pronunciation Demonstration: Reading All Existing Pinyin Syllables”.

  • [ y ] 10-21-2017 Mandarin Corner. “3 Things Chinese Like about Foreigners - Intermediate Chinese Listening | Chinese Conversation”.

  • [ y ] 11-23-2025 Maxxie in China. “How to Get a Good Chinese Name and Avoid to be Lame? | Chinese Local Explains China”.

  • [ y ] 02-24-2026 Queen Mandarin. “6 Hanzi Come From 木 Tree”.

  • [ y ] 10-05-2025 Unlocking Chinese Characters. “How to learn Chinese characters.(review)”.

  • [ y ] 03-08-2026 World Friends. “How Chinese(Mandarin) Sounds To NON-Chinese Speakers? l HARDEST CHALLENGE EVER!!”.

Not Chinese language, just Chinese culture

  • [ y ] 05-01-2025 Learn Chinese Now. “Where Did China Get Its Name?”.

  • [ y ] 05-05-2025 Max Chernov. “Honest view on China after 15 years (Canadian POV)”.

  • [ w ] 金文 jīn wén Bronze Script

  • [ w ] 隶书 lì shū Clerical Script

  • [ w ] 廣雅 guǎng yǎ Guangya (17,326 characters)

  • [ w ] 康熙字典 kāng xī zì diǎn Kangxi Dictionary (49,030 characters)

  • [ w ] 大篆 dà zhuàn Large Seal Script

  • [ w ] 甲骨文 jiǎ gǔ wén Oracle Bone Script

  • [ w ] 楷書 kǎi shū Regular Script

  • [ w ] 说文解字 shuō wén jiě zì Shuowen Jiezi (9,353 characters)

  • [ w ] 小篆 xiǎo zhuàn Small Seal Script

  • [ w ] 國字標準字體 guó zì biāo zhǔn zì tǐ Standard Form National Characters

Japanese

  • [ w ] 日本書紀 nihonshoki (rì běn shū ?) Chronicles of Japan

  • [ w ] Japanese Industrial Standards (301 characters)

  • [ w ] 日本國字 nihonkokuji (rì běn guó zì) Japanese National Characters (1,594 characters)

  • [ w ] 新字体 shinjitai (xīn zì ?) New Form Characters (696 characters)

  • [ w ] 舊字體 kyūjitai (? zì ?) Old Form Characters

Korean

  • [ w ] 略字 (lüè zì) Abbreviated/Half Characters

  • [ w ] Hangul

  • [ w ] Hanja

  • [ w ] 漢韓大辭典 (? hán dà ? ?) Hanja-Hangul Dictionary

  • [ w ] Korean Mixed Script

  • [ w ] 韓國國字 (hán guó guó zì) Korean National Characters (at least 200 characters)

korean

  • [ w ] Sejong the Great

Vietnamese

  • [ w ] Chữ Nôm (Southern Characters) (12,096 characters)

  • [ w ] Vietnamese

  • [ w ] Vietnamese Alphabet

  • [ w ] Vietnamese Writing, history

  • [ w ] Baihua (Written Vernacular Chinese)

  • [ w ] Beijing Dialect

  • [ w ] Cangjie Input Method

  • [ w ] Cantonese

  • [ w ] Checked Tone

  • [ w ] Chinese Character Indexing/Order

  • [ w ] Chinese Characters

  • [ w ] Chinese Classifier (Chinese Measure Word)

  • [ w ] Chinese Dictionary

  • [ w ] Chinese Input Method

  • [ w ] Chinese Measure Word (Chinese Classifier)

  • [ w ] Chinese Phonetic Alphabet (Pinyin)

  • [ w ] Chinese Varieties

  • [ w ] Classical Chinese

  • [ w ] Early Mandarin (Old Mandarin)

  • [ w ] Eastern Han Chinese (Later Han Chinese)

  • [ w ] 儿化 Erhua

  • [ w ] Fanqie

  • [ w ] Four Tones

  • [ w ] Hakka Chinese

  • [ w ] Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK)

  • [ w ] Historical Chinese Phonology

  • [ w ] Hmong-Mien Languages (Miao-Yao Languages)

  • [ w ] Indexing Component (Radical)

  • [ w ] Jiang-Huai Mandarin (Lower Yangtze Mandarin)

  • [ w ] Karlgren-Li Reconstruction of Middle Chinese

  • [ w ] Kra-Dai Languages (Tai-Kadai Languages)

  • [ w ] Later Han Chinese (Eastern Han Chinese)

  • [ w ] Lower Yangtze Mandarin (Jiang-Huai Mandarin)

  • [ w ] Mandarin Chinese

  • [ w ] Miao-Yao Languages (Hmong-Mien Languages)

  • [ w ] Middle Chinese (Qieyun System)

  • [ w ] Min Chinese

  • [ w ] Nanjing Dialect

  • [ w ] Old Mandarin (Early Mandarin)

  • [ w ] Pinyin (Chinese Phonetic Alphabet)

  • [ w ] Postal Romanization

  • [ w ] Qieyun System (Middle Chinese)

  • [ w ] Radical (Indexing Component)

  • [ w ] Rime Dictionary

  • [ w ] Rime Table

  • [ w ] Shanghai Dialect

  • [ w ] Simplified Chinese Characters

  • [ w ] Sino-Xenic Vocabularies

  • [ w ] Southwestern Mandarin (Upper Yangtze Mandarin)

  • [ w ] Standard Chinese [ history ]

  • [ w ] Suzhou Dialect

  • [ w ] Tai-Kadai Languages (Kra-Dai Languages)

  • [ w ] Taiwanese Hokkien

  • [ w ] Traditional Chinese Characters

  • [ w ] Upper Yangtze Mandarin (Southwestern Mandarin)

  • [ w ] Wade-Giles

  • [ w ] Written Chinese

  • [ w ] Written Vernacular Chinese (Baihua)

  • [ w ] Wu Chinese

  • [ w ] Yue Chinese

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