links.yaml

# Note about tags is that this is not designed to handle strange tags

# TODO: Add Mobile/Browser/Desktop tags
# TODO: Add Online/Offline tags for dictionaries
# TODO: Tatoeba

# This is treated differently
# Must be named IME
IME:
- tags: ['All']

  # Hacky way of including making references
  references:
    - &all_chinese ['Cantonese', 'Hakka', 'Mandarin', 'Taishanese', 'Wu', 'Classical', 'Old']
    - &all_chinese_online ['Cantonese', 'Hakka', 'Mandarin', 'Taishanese', 'Wu', 'Classical', 'Old', 'Online']
    - &all_chinese_phone ['Cantonese', 'Hakka', 'Mandarin', 'Taishanese', 'Wu', 'Classical', 'Old', 'Phone']

    - &Rabbit
      tags: ['Mandarin']
      body: '<a href="https://www.rabb.it/">Rabbit</a> - Screen sharing. Optional account login and friending. Works for Karaoke too!'

  # This is the title to be used by the section
  # Purposefully not including English keyboards since people probably already know how to type in English
  title: 'Input Methods (輸入方式)'
  body: ['Name', 'Type', 'OS', 'Language', 'Description']

- tags: *all_chinese
  body: [ '<a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12578/add-keyboard-languages-to-xp-vista-and-windows-7/">System Default</a>',
          'Phonetic/Shape', 'Win', '倉頡、速成、郑码(Pre-Win8)',
          'You will want to find "Chinese Simplified (PRC) - Microsoft Pinyin New Experience Input St." for Win7 and Win8 for Pinyin input. You can set traditional even though it is for simplified.'
        ]

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: [ '<a href="http://www.languagegeek.com/keyboard_general/mac_installation1.html">System Default</a>',
          'Phonetic', 'Mac', '',
          ''
        ]

- tags: *all_chinese
  body: [ '<a href="http://www.pinyinjoe.com/linux/ubuntu-10-chinese-input-pinyin-chewing.htm">System Default</a>',
          'Phonetic', 'Linux', 'All',
          'I would recommend fcitx over ibus: fcitx is more up to date and supports more IMEs.'
        ]

- tags: *all_chinese_phone
  body: [ '<a href="http://rime.im/">Rime</a>',
          'Phonetic/Shape', 'Win/Mac/Linux/Android', 'All',
          'Framework for custom IMEs. You can pretty much get any input method imaginable and it is cross platform. See <a href="https://github.com/espaspw/Resource-Guide/blob/master/doc/IMEs.md">this guide</a> for setup help. You can get Trime from F-droid.'
        ]

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: [ '<a href="https://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ime/pinyin/">Google Input</a>',
          'Phonetic', 'Win', 'Pinyin',
          'Google input method'
        ]

- tags: ['Cantonese', 'Phone']
  body: [ '<a href="http://www.cpime.hk/p/cantonese-pinyin-input-software.html?lang=en">CPIME</a>',
          'Phonetic', 'Win/Android', 'Jyutping、Yale',
          'Jyutping and Yale phonetic input for Cantonese.'
        ]

- tags: ['Hakka', 'Hokkien']
  body: [ '<a href="http://taigi.fhl.net/TaigiIME/">FHL Taigi-Hakka IME</a>',
          'Phonetic', 'Win/Mac', 'POJ(白話字/教羅)、TL(臺羅)',
          'I have never personally used this.'
        ]

- tags: *all_chinese
  body: [ '<a href="http://wubi.sogou.com/">Sogou</a>',
          'Phonetic/Shape', 'Win', '拼音、五笔',
          'Easy to switch between Pinyin, Wubi, or both together. Shows the necessary Wubi key strokes even if you enter Pinyin in the combined mode, so good for learning Wubi.'
        ]



Guides/Textbooks:
- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: 'There are three ways that Cantonese is romanized. You’ll likely have to get use to all three. Older resources use Yale, newer use Jyutping, natives just fudge it as no romanisation system is taught. Also take a look at Mandarin section for some start character tips should it be relevant (since this primarily spoken language).'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://github.com/espaspw/Resource-Guide/blob/master/doc/Guide%20to%20Learning%20Chinese.md">Guide to Learning Chinese</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '《现代汉语八百词》by  增订本'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Practical-Chinese-Reader-Textbook/dp/7561910401">New Practical Chinese Reader</a> - Progressively teaches reading, writing and listening.'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCpiRPZbPei0PfaoZUTuesxoJ0TbTWryHM9GbtSM2ig/edit">Quick Starter Guide to Cantonese</a>'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzQw-iJMJ8ygc1AzWWVZWmFPRVk?usp=sharing">Sietse’s Learning Pack</a>'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="http://cantonese.ca/">Learn Cantonese!</a> Non-standard romanization'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~canto/Public%20Access/Beginning/Beginning%20reader%20for%20Students%20L1%20to%20L6.pdf">Berkeley Beginning Cantonese</a> [Yale]'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/">http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/</a>'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="http://podcast.rthk.org.hk/podcast/item_all.php?pid=45&amp;current_year=2007">Podcast: Naked Cantonese</a>'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://culturequote.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/cantonese-basic.pdf">Culture Quote</a> [Yale]'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/">Adam Sheik’s Articles</a> [Essays]'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://howtostudycantonese.com/">How to study Cantonese</a>'

- tags: ['Hakka']
  body: '<a href="http://syndict.com/hakka/tutorial/">Syncdict</a> - Lesson material for Hakka yay~ The lesson material is extremely close to how people actually talk.'

# Classical
- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="http://chinesenotes.com/classical_chinese.html">Notes on Literary Chinese</a> by Alex Ames'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '[<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B91IVDKbLk-YdGNHRjlObEVyUU0/view">PDF</a>] A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese by Paul Rouzer'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="http://www.jonvonkowallis.com/readers/Wenyan-Wen/index.php">Wenyan Wen: Introduction to Classical Chinese Language</a> by Jon von Kowalis'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="http://www.invisiblebooks.com/CGCC.htm">A Concise Grammar of Classical Chinese</a> by Yakov Rabinovich, 2010.'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: 'Kanbun, Hanmun, Chữ Nôm, Cổ văn go! These are alternative non-English names for Classical Chinese and will also teach you the subject.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://chinesepod.com/">Chinese Pod</a> [Lessons][Podcast] Requires free sign up.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://kidschinesepodcast.com/lessons/">Kid’s Chinese Podcast</a> [Lessons][Podcast]'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.hellochinese.cc/">Hello Chinese</a> [Lessons][Vocab] - Gamification A Duolingo-like course'

# TODO: Probably useless
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.clozemaster.com/languages/">Clozemaster</a> [Lessons] - Gamification'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="http://www.clc.scicube.info/book_link/book_link.html">Cantonese Learning Centre E-book List</a>'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/">Cantonese Lessons</a>'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqDaS_9aDl_N7ipFlSQ6LTw/playlists?shelf_id=0&amp;view=1&amp;sort=dd">High School Class Youtube Recordings</a>'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170604202810/http://www.freehongkong.net/learn-cantonese-grammar-conjunction-and-sentence-connector/">Free Hong Kong Cantonese Grammar</a> - Romanization system is non-standard'



Phonetics (音韻):
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://challenges.hackingchinese.com/resources">Hacking Chinese’s articles</a> on <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/focusing-on-tone-pairs-to-improve-your-mandarin-pronunciation/">tone practice</a> and <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-learn-chinese-characters-as-a-beginner/">beginning Hanzi</a>. <a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/media/100-radicals-markus.pdf">100 most common radicals</a>. [Essays]'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.hackingchinese.com/a-guide-to-pinyin-traps-and-pitfalls/">Hacking Chinese’s Guide to Pinyin</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php">Yabla Audio Chart</a> [Pinyin][Reference] Southern accent, tones are enunciated so better for learners.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.yoyochinese.com/chinese-learning-tools/Mandarin-Chinese-pronunciation-lesson/pinyin-chart-table">Pinyin Audio Chart</a> [Pinyin][Reference] Northern (more standard) accent. Third tone is said quickly as one would naturally say it, so not as ideal for learners.'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://cantolounge.com/jyutping-chart/">Canto Lounge’s Audio Chart</a> [Jyutping][Sounds][Tones]'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://www.cantoneseclass101.com/cantonese-alphabet/">Cantonese Class 101’s Audio Chart</a> [Jyutping][Sounds]'

- tags: ['Wu', 'Online']
  body: 'http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese/shanghainese-soundboard'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-Taishanese-better-for-reading-old-Chinese-poetry-or-Cantonese-Which-one-would-rhyme-more">Is Taishanese better than Cantonese for old Chinese poetry</a>'



Grammar (語法):
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Grammar_points_by_level">Chinese Grammar Wiki</a> [Grammar] A bit terse.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'Mandarin Chinese Grammar [Grammar] by Claudia Ross'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Comprehensive-Grammar-Routledge-Grammars/dp/0415150329">Chinese Comprehensive Grammar</a> [Grammar] Extremely heavy, better for intermediate and advanced learners to for comprehensive approach.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.chineseboost.com/grammar/">Chinese Boost</a> [Grammar]'




HSK (漢語水平考試):
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.hsk.academy/">HSK Academy</a> - Very helpful for those learning Chinese characters. Aimed mainly for those seeking the HSK (similar to TOEFL) tests, but still good to learn new words, phrases. There is a short introduction to Chinese grammar also.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.wumaocorp.com/hskcheck/">HSK Check</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.chinesetest.cn/godownload.do">Sample Test Papers</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.chinaeducenter.com/en/hsk/hsktestscore.php">Conversion</a> - Old HSK to New HSK'





Character/Word Lists:
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.memrise.com/">Memrise</a> [SRS] - Teaches through exercise. Pay option.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://skritter.com/">Skritter</a> A pay-for service that combines responsive feedback with SRS learning. Writing and vocabulary. Review of skritter.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.fastchinese.org/flashcards">Chinese Tutor Flashcards</a> - A site that works like flashcards to help memorize the Pinyin for Chinese words/phrases.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/867291675">Spoonfed Anki Deck</a> [Vocab][Anki]'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html">Three Thousand Hanzi</a> by frequency by Patrick Hassel Zein '

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ArxEFo46PTrDyDDhWyu3wB0epxqTyd8WBaprnwTEPm4/edit#gid=1428902047">Frequency List</a>'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Aglvq1BeuKweRnKrY3wRMIuKu4FRDAhwdM98cqjqJSQ/htmlview">Slang Google Doc</a> - A bit outdated'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: 'Slang - http://evchk.wikia.com/wiki/%E9%A6%96%E9%A0%81'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: 'Slang - http://hkdic.my-helper.com/'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji_and_Remembering_the_Hanzi">Heisig’s Remembering the Hanzi Series</a> - Controversial book series that espouses a mnemonics method for learning characters. <a href="http://www.saporedicina.com/english/chinese-characters-remember-the-hanzi/">Your mileage may vary</a>.'


# TODO: Amis Isn't actually a Sinitic Language, ponder on what to do with it
# https://amis.moedict.tw/



# Things to consider for a dictionary
# - Does it support wildcard searching (*,?,^,$)
# - Audio/Speech
# - Offline/Online, what services in particular are supported only online
# - What dictionary does it source, sometimes the author is important too
# - ...



#<h2 id="dictionaries">Dictionaries</h2>
#<p>Because of disconnect between phonetic reading and graphic representation of hanzi, knowing how to separate character into its radical and phonetic component in addition to learning characters by their strokes. Not only number of strokes but order of strokes is especially useful for getting handwriting recognition to work for you.</p>
#<p>More important introduction coming soon. Such dictionaries are organized by Pinyin, but also come with a character index at the start that is organized by number of strokes in the radical, then by number of strokes excluding the radical.</p>

Word Dictionaries (詞典):
- &Pleco
  tags: ['Mandarin', 'Cantonese', 'Phone', 'Offline']
  body: 'Pleco - A dictionary aggregator, you get a [ZH↔EN] dictionary (unsure if CEDICT or tailor-made one) for free, but then you can purchase 现代汉语词典, Words.hk, 现代汉语规范词典 etc. You may wish to look at the following <a href="https://github.com/alexhk90/Pleco-User-Dictionaries">user-land dictionaries</a> assembled by alexhk09'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'English', 'Phone', 'Offline', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://www.linedict.com/">Line</a> (formerly Nciku) [EN→ZH][EN←ZH][EN↔Thai][Online] Most examples, flexible handwriting detection, and has the features. A tad bulky/slow. Examples are online'

- &Wenlin
  tags: ['Mandarin', 'English', 'Offline']
  body: '<a href="https://www.wenlin.com/download">Wenlin (文林)</a> [EN↔ZH] free/paid version, the quality of definitions is fairly good, but you the numbers of words in the free version is fairly limited. Really good for character etymology break downs.'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'English', 'Browser', 'Offline']
  body: '[<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen-chinese-english/">Firefox</a>][<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde/">Chrome</a>] <b>Zhong Wen</b> - Mandarin pop-up dictionaries available for both browsers. Still recommend CPD or Liuchan pop-up dictionary over this as it has support for both Cantonese and Mandarin.'

- tags: ['Cantonese', 'Mandarin', 'English', 'Browser', 'Offline']
  body: '<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cantonese-popup-dictionar/pjnbhojkojmibobcpfgihhnohboldhip">CPD (Chrome)</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Browser] Pop-up dictionary.'

- tags: ['Cantonese', 'Mandarin', 'English', 'Browser', 'Offline']
  body: '<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/liuchan/">Liuchan (Firefox)</a> [EN↔CA,ZH][Browser] Pop-up dictionary.'

- tags: ['Cantonese', 'English', 'Browser', 'Offline']
  body: '<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.embermitre.hanping.cantodict.app.pro">Hanping Dictionary</a> [EN↔CA] Offline dictionary that you install to your browser. '

# TODO: Android/iPhone for Shuowen and for Youdao, linedict, also rewrite Zhongwen to include Shuowen as a source
- tags: ['Mandarin', 'English', 'Online', 'Phone']
  body: '<a href="http://dict.youdao.com/w/">Youdao (有道)</a> by Netease (网易) very solid Mandarin to English translations.'

- &Zdic
  tags: ['Mandarin', 'English', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://www.zdic.net/">Zdic (漢典)</a> [C↔C,EN][Online] Primarily a Mandarin-Mandarin dictionary. Compiles the pretty much everything of readers of Modern Chinese Language need in a single search bar: definitions, translations (probably lifted from MoeDict, sometimes also provides translations along individual senses probably lifted from Xiandai Hanyu Cidian 5th Edition), etymology, 說文解字、康熙詞典), shaped-based input combination lookup (五筆、倉頡、鄭碼), variant characters, readings in related Chinese languages (音韵方言), etc.'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'English', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php">MDCG</a> [EN↔ZH][Online] Curators of the CC-CEDICT dictionary that serves as the standard C many reference. Does not show examples unfortunately.'

- tags: ['Cantonese', 'English', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/">CantoDict</a> [EN↔CA][Online] Jyutping, audio bytes, examples. The most comprehensive English-Cantonese dictionary out there. You have to make sure you select the right category for searching.'

- tags: ['Cantonese', 'Mandarin', 'English', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://cantonese.org/">Pleco</a> [EN↔ZH,CA][Android][iOS] Cantonese/Mandarin-English dictionary based on CC-EDictA2 with a human check for differences for Cantonese. The app version for Android and iPhone are mandarin only. You have to enable Cantonese in settings for the mobile app.'

- tags: ['Cantonese', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://words.hk/">Jyutdin</a> [CA↔CA][Online]. Requires Facebook login, but available free of charge on Pleco.'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'Online']
  body: '现代汉语词典5th Ed. [ZH↔ZH][Book] Standard dictionary that Mainland uses.'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'English', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://dictionary.pinpinchinese.com/">Pin Pin</a> [EN↔ZH] Both CC-CEDICT definitions, definitions from Tatoeba, as well as user-submitted definitions.'

# Not sure which is better: http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cbdic/ or moedict.tw
- tags: ['Mandarin', 'English', 'Online']
  bdoy: '<a href="https://moedict.tw/">MoEDict (教育部重編國語辭典修訂本 or 萌典)</a> - One largest dictionaries  A dictionary curated by the Ministry of Eduction for the Taiwanese government, released under the Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0 license and whose source is on <a href="https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-twblg/blob/master/README.md">GitHub here</a>. This is also an official download in Pleco.'


# TODO: Fix Syndict, check Hokkien dictionary using Taigi or POJ
# The other languages
# It uses the Taigi (臺羅) romanisation system and has supporting links for general education about Hokkien.
#
#- tags: ['Hokkien', 'English', 'Online']
#  body: '<a href="https://niawdeleon.com/hokkien-dictionary/">Taiwanese-English dictionary</a> by Maryknoll Taiwan under CC'
- tags: ['Hokkien', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="https://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/">MoeDict 臺灣閩南話常用詞辭典</a> - A Taiwanese (Hokkien/臺語/閩南話）dictionary maintained by the Ministry of Education for the Taiwanese government. This is provided under the Creative Commons BY-ND 3.0 license whose source can be found on <a href="https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-twblg">this GitHub page</a>. See the Pleco entry for a way to build the dictionary into an existing Pleco installation.'

# Probably Creative commons
- tags: ['Hakka', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://wiki.hakka.gov.tw/ver2018">Hakka Dictionary</a> - maintained by the Hakka Affairs Council (客家委員會) for the Taiwanese Government. You can hear voice recordings of example sentences, dictionary definitions are also fairly detailed. I believe the source can be found on <a href="https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-hakka">this GitHub page</a>, released under an Attribution, No Derivatives, Non-Commercial license. See the Pleco entry for a way to build the dictionary into an existing Pleco installation.'

- tags: ['Hakka', 'Cantonese', 'Hokkien', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://syndict.com/">Syndict (薪典)</a> - Primarily a Hakka dictionary. If you follow it on WeChat, you can do Speech-To-Text recognition, i.e. Hakka to Hanzi.'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'Cantonese', 'Hokkien', 'Wu', 'Online']
  body: '<a href=http://kaifangcidian.com/>Kaifang Cidian</a> - Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Wu Dictionary'

- tags: ['Taishanese', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://www.stephen-li.com/TaishaneseVocabulary/Taishanese.html">Stephen Li Taishanese Dictionary</a>'

- tags: ['Wu', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="https://wugniu.com/">吳語學堂</a> - Dictionary for various Wu languages.'

- tags: ['Singlish', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://www.singlishdictionary.com/">Singlish Dictionary</a>'




Character Dictionaries (字典):
- *Zdic

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/">Multi-function Chinese Character Database CC-English-C</a> (Uses homophones in addition to romanisation for pronunciation, for those that are more comfortable with that than romanisation) (Also has audio clips, but those can be a little stretched out to emphasise the tones)'

- &Ctext
  tags: ['Classical', 'Online']
  body: '<a href="http://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en">Ctext Dictionary</a> - Classical Chinese character dictionary and document archive.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '新华華字典, the dictionary given free of charge to every Mainland Chinese student'

# TODO: Note for which app store to use in China
# TODO: Research Shuowen's Android dictionary source
- &Shuowen
  tags: ['Mandarin', 'Classical', 'Phone', 'Offline']
  body: '[<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordinterpret.dictionary">Android</a>] Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字) - Analyses character etymology in Classical Chinese, or more specifically, traces the make-up of seal script (小篆) characters and attempts to explain how the creates their meaning. First published in AD. 121 by Xu Shen (許慎), the version annotated by Qing scholar Duan Yuancai (段玉裁) is frequently referenced by Chinese students even today. The Android app additionally contains a dictionary with definitions in Modern Mandarin (though I am not sure where it pulls its definitions from at the moment).'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.zhongwen.com/">Zhongwen</a> [EN↔ZH][Online] (Unrelated to pop-up dictionary). Lightweight and responsive. Alternative to Wenlin for radical-based breakdown of characters and shared-radical map. However, character search does not work (might be encoding issue) and unable to copy paste.'



# TODO: Add forvo, how could I forget forvo
Specialist Dictionaries:
- *Pleco

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://baike.baidu.com/">Baidu Baike</a> [ZH→ZH,EN] An encyclopaedia, but it does list definitions.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'Wikipedia - Great for translating technical jargon or just generally specific words. Find the article, then click on the Chinese version of that article. Unfortunately filters in and out of being on the blacklist for the Great Firewall of China.'

# TODO: Hanzicraft: Useful for its homonyms and phonetic hints perhaps? Have to play with app
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://hanzicraft.com/">HanziCraft</a>, Breaks down character into radicals and assorted strokes. Also features a table list of homonyms.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'http://dictall.com/indu/035/0340368F65C.htm - For technical translation, though Wikipedia works too. Not really sure how useful this is as it does not seem to received updates.'



# Reorganized into graded readers
Reading Material (閱讀材料):
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://storyfree.com/">Storyfree</a> - Children stories'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/chinesebookclub/">Chinese Book Club on Reddit</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.tsoidug.org/">Tsoi Dug’s bilingual site</a> - Essays, poetry, articles on culture, etc. in both English and Chinese. '

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://cendalirit.blogspot.hk/">每天為你讀一首詩</a> - A blog featuring daily posts on modern Chinese poetry'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.chinese-stories.com/">Chinese Stories</a> - Graded Reading. '

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130709010055/http://www.chinesestoriesplatform.com/">Chinese Stories Platform</a> - Graded reading'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://justlearnchinese.com/mini-novels/">Just Learn Chinese</a> - Graded reading'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'Phone']
  body: '<a href="https://www.duchinese.net/">Du Chinese</a> - Phone app. Graded reading with mouse over translations and transliterations'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.decipherchinese.com/">Decipher</a> - Phone app with paid service. Daily graded articles.'



# TODO: Ideally we would want to indict biases for these newspaper
# TODO: check chairmansbao
#Unevaluated:
#- tags: ['Mandarin']
#  body: 'http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/sampler.html <code>Figure out if this has classical Chinese or not</code>'
Newspaper (報紙):
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: "<a href=\"http://www.thechairmansbao.com/\">Chariman's Bao</a> - Newspaper tailored to learners [Graded Reader] (if I recall correctly)"

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://mandarinweekly.com/">Mandarin Weekly</a> - A weekly newsletter containing Mandarin study stuff!'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://cn.nytimes.com/">New York Times in Chinese</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.mingpao.com/">Ming Pao Newspaper</a> (Trad. Chinese) '

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.singtao.ca/toronto/">Sing Tao Newspaper</a> (Trad. Chinese) '


# TODO: Figure out how Qidian works. Also include notes on connections with Alipay etc.
Novels and Visual Novels:
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.qidian.com/">Qidian</a> - Probably the largest. You can also find fan translations of some of their stories if you do a bit of searching. They have an energy system that you can make use of to read for free. You can also find several mirror sites.'
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.xxsy.net/">xxsy</a>'
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://xs.cn/">xs</a>'
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.jjwxc.net/">jjwxc</a>'
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'Cantonese webnovels'
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&amp;fil=olang-zh&amp;rfil=">Chinese Visual Novels originals</a> - In case you don’t know these are basically books with pretty pictures and music in -the background. You can find some of these on Steam. For all translated to Chinese, <a href="https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&amp;fil=lang-zh&amp;rfil=">here</a>.'
- tags: ['Cantonese', 'Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://forum8.hkgolden.com/topics.aspx?type=SY">HKGolden</a>'
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://shikoto.com/">Shikoto</a>'
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://haodoo.net/">Fan-transcribed E-books</a>'
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/?sf=1&amp;org=495&amp;sort=abc&amp;order=asc">Novelupdates</a> - In case you want the ~~totally legal~~ fan translations to reference. Fantasy genres <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/36q51h/as_a_chinese_id_like_to_talk_about_those_chinese/">explanations</a> Xianxia has become kinda catch all in English.'


Dramas:
- *Rabbit

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://mydramalist.com/">MyDramalist</a> - Drama information and watchlist site '

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPIRD4yr1hlAEovBCSNlAKg\">Croton's</a> Official Youtube [ZH]"

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://www.tvbanywhere.com/">TVB</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.dnvod.tv/">Dnvod</a> - Loads of films with Chinese subs/dubs.'

  # TODO: viki name of feature
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.viki.com/">Viki</a> - A legal stream service (thus their catalogue will depend on your country, though you can use a VPN to get around this region lock) that focuses on East Asian media. Their catalogue is a majority Korean drama, though they have Chinese and Taiwanese dramas. They have a useful feature'


Youtube Lessons:
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://mandarinmadeez.com/">Mandarin Madeez</a> - YouTube videos by Fiona Tian, these are awesome!'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpuAQiIlxFe0FlR2gXXLUKA/videos?flow=list&amp;view=0&amp;sort=da">Xue Bai’s Youtube Series</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsl59JxjRtBSc3zdt6-Xymw">Mandarin is Awesome</a> - Youtube Mandarin course'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpN2N1K4pWzlW5qDd0HjhDQ\">Shawn's Mando Chinese</a> - Youtube Mandarin course"

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRLvrbf9kpcOKZxFUpPXHgoAKIr_wHXvP&amp;">Growing Up With Chinese</a> - Youtube Mandarin course'


Other Media:
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'http://live.sk-knower.com/hk - filters twitch Hong Kong streamers'


Manhua:
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.kuaikuaimanhua.com/">Kuai Kuai Manhua</a> - Mandarin'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.lianzai.me/">Lianzai</a> - Mandarin'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.u17.com/">U17</a> - Mandarin'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://ac.qq.com/">QQ</a> - Mandarin'


Donghua:
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://v.qq.com/">QQ Donghua</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://bangumi.bilibili.com/">Bilibili (哔哩哔哩)</a> - also known as B站 the haven of 二次元.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Z7nO8GGZt_FZeG8UMC4Sw">Dai Yi Fansubs</a> - Donghua with English subs'


Audio and Podcasts:
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://singchinesesongs.com/">Sing Chinese Songs</a> - Learn Chinese through song. You sing karaoke with Pinyin/characters and then turn off the Pinyin.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.1ting.com/rank/pop.html">Chinese Songs Classics: Yi Ting</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://radio.bbtv.cn/">BBTV</a> Radio'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://chinesepod.com/">Chinese Pod</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'Mandarin Audio Books: <a href="http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_epi.php?pid=448">RTHK’s podcast</a> and <a href="http://tingbook.com/">Tingbook</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'Cantonese Audio Books: <a href="http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_epi.php?pid=447">RTHK’s podcasts</a> (Mandarin-original) '

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://popupcantonese.com/">Popup cantonese</a>'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_all.php?pid=702&amp;lang=zh-CN">RHTK’s Cantonese Podcast</a> about 古文觀止'




Miscellaneous:
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'http://csulb.learningchineseonline.net/ a whole lot of resources'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.chinasimplified.com/">China Simplified</a> - Useful articles about studying Mandarin and the language itself.'

- tags: ['Cantonese', 'Mandarin', 'Hokkien', 'Hakka']
  body: '<a href="https://glossika.com/courses/">Glossicka’s Courses</a> - A pay-for course. Has Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin (Mainland/Taiwan), and Taiwanese Hokkien flavours.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://fluentu.com/">FluentU</a> - A site that provides short Chinese videos with subtitles with characters, Pinyin and English.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.lang-8.com/">Lang-8</a> - an exchange based around writing in a foreign language providing corrections. Good for getting grammar corrected. They recommend writing no more than a couple of paragraphs and recommend writing a translation of what you wanted to say.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://confusedlaowai.com/2013/07/comprehensive-onomatopoeia-list/">Onomatopoeia list</a> - Sound words in Mandarin'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: 'http://www.hackingchinese.com/chinese-character-variants-and-fonts-for-language-learners/'


# TODO: These calligraphy resources are pretty unacceptable

Etymology and Calligraphy:
- *Shuowen
- *Wenlin

# TODO: Check why_study link
- tags: *all_chinese_online
  body: '<a href="https://hanziyuan.net/">Chinese Etymology Lookup</a> - Online character dictionary that returns an English translation of 說文解字 as well as showing the images of the Oracle (甲骨文), Bronze (金文), Seal (篆書), and Liushutong (六書通) characters. An ongoing research project A site by by Prof. Richard Sears (汉字叔叔). <a href="http://www.chineseetymology.org/why_study.aspx">Also links two useful apps for searching characters</a> '

- tags: *all_chinese
  body: '<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/%E5%8F%A4%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%8C%9C%E7%8C%9C%E6%A8%82/id1193864419?mt=8">App for Learning Oracle Bone Script</a> [iOS]'

- tags: *all_chinese
  body: '<a href="https://www.quora.com/How-are-Chinese-dictionaries-organized">A Quora article on dictionary character sorting</a>'

- tags: *all_chinese
  body: '<a href="http://www.shufazidian.com/">Calligraphy Dictionary</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvPiCUjsIEaCdYiHtP4pbPg">Youtube channel on handwriting</a> - Goes over several examples and general advice for handwriting in Mandarin. A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s6pxhNql70">fifteen-part series</a> on handwriting characters but in Japanese.'


Nerdy Rubbish:
- tags: ['All']
  body: '<a href="http://hayataki-masaharu.jp/web-typography-in-japanese/">Typesetting characters</a> in Japanese but also applicable to Chinese'

- tags: ['All']
  body: '<a href="http://unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html">Unicode FAQ on CJK Characters</a> - On the technicalities of representing fonts'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Hxq1YIsjE">Mandarin IPA I</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcRuwV2hrg">Mandarin IPA II</a>'

- tags: ['All']
  body: '<a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/chinesehistory/contents/08fea/c02.html#Fonts">Fonts for Older Scripts</a>'

- tags: ['All']
  body: 'Academic writing is typically done with 楷書 for the author, 宋體 for everything else, 四號 for regular text, 三號 for titles for Mainland China. For English, the standard is typically double-spaced Times New Roman or Arial font, 12pt for regular text 16pt for titles.'


Texts:
- *Ctext

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: 'Database of texts: <a href="http://ctext.org/">Ctext</a> and http://tls.uni-hd.de/home_en.lasso'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=intro">Wengu</a> - One of the best resources for classical Chinese works.'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E5%A4%A7%E5%85%B8:%E5%8D%B7%E9%A6%96">Wikipedia in Classical</a>'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="http://chinese-poems.com/">ChinesePoetry</a> - Ancient Chinese Poetry.'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="http://open-lit.com/list.php">List of Novels</a>'

Tools:
- *Rabbit

# TODO: Replace this with Youdao translater (better, but might not have Classical Chinese)
- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://fanyi.baidu.com/#zh/yue/">Baidu translate</a> [MLT] Machine translator. Has Mandarin, Cantonese, and Classical.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://translate.google.com/">Google Translate</a> [MLT] Great for handwriting recognition. Click on the 拼 -> handwriting'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'Browser']
  body: 'Simplified↔Traditional Conversion [<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/njstar-chinese-website-co/oljejbejachaajllbbjiamdkhipbbppk?hl=en">Chrome</a>] [<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new_tongwentang/">Firefox</a>]'

- tags: ['Mandarin', 'Browser']
  body: '<a href="https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2512410601">Real Time Anki Import</a> - To automate anki entry'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://ankisrs.net/">Anki</a> [Memorization][<a href="http://www.omniglot.com/language/srs.php">SRS</a>] - Flashcard memorization program. Recommend using Anki as a revision tool and <a href="https://eastasiastudent.net/study/anki-structure/">build your own decks</a>, but if you really want to can find <a href="https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/">pre-built decks</a> to learn vocabulary. Also see <a href="http://www.isimplylovelanguages.com/serial-how-to-use-anki-effectively/">this</a>.'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://www.zhtoolkit.com/apps/chinese_word_extractor/">Zhtoolkit</a> [Text Analysis] - Breakdowns a text into its constituent words with definitions with CC-EDICT. Can custom set dictionary and also filter out learnt words.'

- tags: ['All']
  body: '<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/jnovelformatter/">JNovelFormter</a> - Quickly converts .txt files to be easily viewed as an HTML document. Useful in conjunction with pop-up dictionaries and the popup-dictionary-to-Anki function'

- tags: ['Cantonese']
  body: '<a href="https://www.chineseconverter.com/cantonesetools/en/cantonese-to-jyutping">Jyutping Converter</a>'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://horizontalhanzi.com/">Horizontal Hanzi</a> - For disambiguating similar-looking characters'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="http://pin1yin1.com/">Pin1yin1</a> - Converts characters to Pinyin with diacritics (tone markers) or Zhuyin to a text'

- tags: ['Mandarin']
  body: '<a href="https://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/">Text analyser</a> - Pay for program'



Communities:
- tags: ['All']
  body: '<a href="https://discord.gg/ADdR45y">Chinese-English Exchange Discord Server</a> - Why us of course. Targeted towards learners of Chinese languages as well as English.'

## TODO: Replace with better discord, ling and lang dead
#- tags: ['Mandarin']
#  body: '<a href="https://discord.gg/BWaZeP8">Ling and Lang discord</a> - A discord server focused around learning multiple languages'
#  Hellotalk banned in china even though it is made by tencent
#- tags: ['Mandarin']
#  body: '<a href="http://hellotalk.com/">HelloTalk</a>, <a href="https://hinative.com/">HiNative</a>, <a href="http://www.wechat.com/en/">WeChat</a> . For meeting and talking with Natives. Be sure to Google how to make the most of a language exchange. '


- tags: ['Hakka']
  body: '<a href="http://syndict.com/hot/index.htm">Very nice list of Hakka communities and resources curated by Syndict, company based in Shenzhen</a>'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="https://discord.gg/BdSb4AJ">A discord focused on classical texts (not just Chinese)</a>'

- tags: ['Classical']
  body: '<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalchinese/">r/ClassicalChinese</a> - Subreddit'

- tags: ['Old']
  body: '<a href="https://discordapp.com/invite/te89K64">United Nations of Ancient and Endangered Languages Discord</a>'