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1. Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass review: Understand more, learn faster, remember longer

   

   Mastering Chinese characters, whether you find them enchantingly beautiful or overwhelmingly complex, is essential for literacy in Chinese. Outlier Linguistics will help you understand how the Chinese writing system works, making it easier to learn!

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2. Review: The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters

   

   Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese characters is an excellent tool to help you understand and thereby learn Chinese characters more effectively. This is an in-depth review, covering the two versions of the dictionary, essential and expert, as well as other related products provided by outlier. There is also a 25% discount code for those who want to try the dictionary!

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3. Skritter review: Boosting your Chinese character learning

   

   Skritter is a modern tool for learning ancient characters. It combines research-based methods such as active recall and spaced repetition with great Chinese-specific tools and content. While it’s not a free resource, it has enough edges over more generic, free services to be worth it in my opinion.

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4. Review: Learning Chinese by video immersion with FluentU

   

   FluentU offers authentic as well as learner-oriented videos for learning Chinese. A neat interface allows you to use an excellent pop-up dictionary and other useful features to watch and learn from videos. This is an in-depth review of FluentU Chinese.

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5. Review: Language Empowerment: Demystify Chinese culture and fire up your Mandarin + interview with the author

   

   Language Empowerment is a neat little book that manages to pack a lot of information and inspiration into relatively few pages. I highly recommend it for people who have just started learning Chinese or who are interested in doing so. This book covers many topics that you need to know about, but which few textbooks or teachers mention! It is also easy to access and enjoyable to read.

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6. Hacking Chinese: the Dragon Collection

   

   This page contains a list of all articles in Hacking Chinese: the Dragon Collection for ease of reference, clickable links and access to podcast episodes. Best of Hacking Chinese 2024 8 great ways to scaffold your Chinese listening and reading Listen more and learn more by building a personal Chinese audio library The Hacking Chinese […]

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7. Zi.Tools: A powerful free resource for exploring Chinese characters

   

   Zi.Tools is a great free resource for exploring Chinese characters. See what it offers and how you can use it to boost your learning!

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8. The best YouTube channels for learning Chinese in 2026

   

   Videos are ideal for learning Chinese. The visual element makes the content more comprehensible and engaging, resulting in effective and enjoyable learning. But what videos should you watch? What are the best YouTube Channels?

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9. Don’t use mnemonics for everything when learning Chinese

   

   Mnemonics are clever memory techniques you can use to learn and remember more, but this doesn’t mean that you should always use them. If you do, you will end up spending more time on mnemonics than you do engaging with the Chinese language.

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10. Which Chinese learning resources are worth paying for?

    

    Thanks to the internet, learning Chinese is now more accessible than ever, and you can do it completely for free. Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should, however. If you have money to invest, here’s how to do so with the greatest impact.

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