Long time no see!
I just want to say that I am restarting at a new blog here. It will kind of be the same idea as this blog, just a bit more cleaner! Feel free to follow me again if you want to keep up to date on my language learning adventures. ^^
As for this blog, I won’t delete it or any posts. I will keep it up for those who found any of my posts helpful~.
I’ll see you at my new blog! If not, it was nice meet you all here. ^^
Happy blogging!
This post is for sites that I believe are useful to learn the Mandarin Chinese language along with a description. I will update it when and if I find other sites to share. Feel free to to share anything in the comments below that you would like to see on this list!
Last Updated: 2015.09.15
A site to read little stories in Chinese with English translation. Has beginner, intermediate and advanced readings.
Another site with stories in Chinese. Has beginner, elementary, intermediate and advanced readings.
3. Allsetlearning Chinese Grammar Wiki
A useful grammar wiki. Has A1, A2, B1, and B2 grammar points. C1 is currently being worked on.
A Chinese site/blog by Olle Linge who has been learning Chinese for quite sometime. Has useful tips to learn Chinese. He also has a Chinese resources site here.
5. FluentU
FluentU is a site that helps you learn a language through videos. Their Chinese content is most up to date and structured than the other languages.
A site that has a little variety of Chinese lessons. Also teaches Cantonese.
7. University of Cambridge – Chinese Basic
The University of Cambridge has a program opened to the public to learn basic Chinese. Requires download. Also has an Anki deck listed.
A blog/site about Chinese language and culture. There are apps available(Android only).
9. SHChinese
A great site to study for the HSK. Has apps available(Android and iOS).
10. Ninchanese
A great and cute site to learn Chinese. In beta stage right now in which you can give them your e-mail on the home page and they’ll send you an invite. Free for now, might become paid in the future.
Practice your Chinese through various tests. Has beginner and intermediate levels.
12. ChinesePod
A popular site to learn Chinese with a lot of various lessons. You can sign up for a free account and try the free course. Have to pay to get access to more content(Basic, Premium and Premium+).
13. YoyoChinese
Another good site to learn Chinese. You can sign up for a free account and watch videos that have ‘free’ on it. Have to pay to get access to more content.
14. Memrise
Goes directly to the Mandarin Chinese simplified page for English speakers courses. There are more dialects and content on the left hand side when you scroll down a little bit. Most courses are user made.
15. Duolingo
Goes directly to the English for Chinese speakers page. You can try this if you want to learn Chinese if you know English but it may be harder since it expects you to know Chinese already.
I have recently decided to change my course of major!
I am now a Chinese major. I won’t be taking any Chinese classes until I transfer in the fall of next year, but I will be self studying as much as I can to prepare beforehand!
I am still minoring in Korean. The only reason that I picked a Chinese major(I still love Chinese and want to learn it) is because the Korean major program is not set up yet and I don’t know if it’ll be ready when I transfer/ while I attend the other university. If it does, however, I switch my major to Korean and then minor in Chinese.
But for now, I’m a Chinese major and to celebrate it, I’ll make a list of sites to learn Chinese! I haven’t made a list of sites in a certain language for a while and I think it’s time for another one. What a perfect opportunity to do so! This list is likely to be Mandarin only. I’m not sure whether or not I want to make sub-categories for the other dialects or make separate posts for them.
Until next time!
Long time no see!
I’m sorry for not being active this summer. Since the beginning of July, I’ve found a job and it had taken up some of my time. Now school is about to start in less than a week.
But speaking of school, I’m going to challenge myself starting this semester. I’ve grown interest in the studyblr community on tumblr and started following a bunch of them. Some of them are even related to studying languages! These blogs have motivated me to start working towards being more organized for the school year. Not only for school, but also for learning languages!
I seriously went on a shopping haul on yesstyle.com and bought a lot of things to start planning and organizing. I want to organize for school and to learn my primary languages French and Korean.
I never was a planner type person, but I always wanted to be. I want to give a huge thanks to the studyblr tumblrs that I started following to light the motivation in me to actually try and plan my days, weeks and months.
Sadly, school will already start before I receive these items. But until I actually get them, I’ll try my hardest to be more organized without them!
Until next post. Good luck in school this year!
Hello!
I’m just here with a little update about having a study instagram account. ^^ I will mainly post about me studying languages on this account. I will try to update this as much as I can. Feel free to follow me for updates on my language journey!
Thank you and have a lovely summer!
Oh hello…long time no see!
You may be wondering why I haven’t been making posts lately. Short, honest answer: I’ve been lazy. Oops. OTL
But I’ve been learning languages all this time! Though…much slower than usual. This is what summer break does to me. All the time I have in the world goes to me being lazy and doing other things with my time(aka twitter, fangirl, etc).
I didn’t forget this blog. I just have difficulty coming up with content to post, especially if I’m not learning as often as I did. I’m sorry for not keeping up with this blog and posting a lot of times a week. I hope that I can work on this and bring more content for you to enjoy!
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer(or winter if you live in the Southern Hemisphere!)! ^^
Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a great weekend. ^-^
I already asked this question on Twitter, but I know a lot of you don’t follow me there so I figured I’d ask on my blog too.
Does anyone know any good sites to learn Turkish(preferably for free)? Anything besides Duolingo, Memrise and Babbel as I already have those covered. I prefer grammar sites, but anything that’s good will do!
Thank you so much! \^-^/
P.S. My birthday is this Sunday. >w< -gives everyone a piece of cake-
This post is for sites that I believe are useful to learn the French language along with a description. I will update it when and if I find other sites to share. Feel free to to share anything in the comments below that you would like to see on this list!
Last Updated: 2015.03.30
I have recently taken the challenge to learn basic Korean in French.
Since I have a little bit more basic knowledge in French now, I want to try to apply it to my basic knowledge of Korean. I am currently doing this course on Memrise to learn the basics of Korean over again but in French instead of English. I actually already did this course in English here, the main difference (besides language) is the English one is a no typing course while the French one is a typing course.
The simple stuff is the easiest part. Bonjour -> 안녕하세요, oui -> 네, etc. It’s the sentences that are going to be a little bit of a challenge, such as je ne comprends pas -> 저는 이해하지 못했습니다. Since I already did the course in English, I can have a general idea of what both the French and Korean says. Though, I’m trying to think French -> Korean and vice versa, not English -> French/Korean -> Korean/French and so on.
But I’m enjoying this little challenge so far. I think it’s fun to play around with basic knowledge of both languages and see how far I can go. ^^
Do you like to learn a language in a language you’ve already learned or are currently learning? Let me know~
Until next time! 안녕~ à bientôt~
Saluuuuuuut~
I haven’t made a language post in such a long time. Since midterms/finals are over, I think it’s the perfect time to say I am now a French II student!
Earlier this year, I said I was taking two semesters of French in one semester. My French classes are basically accelerated. We learn one semester worth of stuff in half the time.
Last Wednesday, March 18th, I took my final for the French I class. This Monday, March 23rd, I’ll be starting the first day of French II. So far, basing on the time in the first class, the pace was fine. There were some times that it felt like it was going fast, but I’ve been doing surprisingly well. I think this pace is good for a class that is supposed to be accelerated.
If the intermediate French classes do the same thing next fall, I’ll definitely do it again. Just thinking of getting four semesters of French down in only two semesters sounds amazing to me.
Anyway, I’ll find a way to post more about my language adventures soon, especially Korean. Until next time~ à bientôt!
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