When learning Chinese blogs are a great source for ideas, tips and inspiration. These are my favorite Chinese learning blogs.
Blogs come an go and some of them have already turned into online fossils. So when I made this top 10, I looked for four things:
- Engaging and fresh content
- Relevance
- Passion
- Integrity
Top 11 blogs for learning Mandarin
ONE: Hacking Chinese
TWO: Sinosplice
THREE: The Linguist Blog
FOUR: The Chairman’s Bao
One of the best corporate Chinese learning blogs at the moment is without a doubt The Chairman’s Bao blog. They are not merely writing SEO content pieces that push traffic yet are not genuinely helpful for serious learners, but also cover new developments like the implications of generative AI for Chinese learning and delve deeper into the various dialects of Chinese.
FIVE: alllanguageresources.com/chinese/
SIX: Keats Blog
This is the corporate blog from the Keats Chinese school in Kunming, China. Here you find anything from the latest HSK-updates to practical learning advice like the do’s and dont’s of self-studying Mandarin Chinese, but also relevant information about living in China. My personal favorite is their series about China’s major cities.
SEVEN: Outlier-Linguistics Blog
EIGHT: FluentU
NINE: Chineasy Blog
TEN: Sapore di Cina
ELEVEN: Explore-Chinese.com
Another interesting blog on learning Chinese is explore-chinese.com by Kris from the UK who started learning Mandarin back in 2019 and covers various topics related to mastering the Chinese language, from dialects, zodiac signs to AI-tools.
TWELVE: I’m Learning Mandarin
Last but not least: imlearningmandarin.com by Mischa Wilmers. He has been learning Chinese for seven years and founded his blog to share his experiences of reaching fluency through self study. In his podcast, he interviews interesting learners and teachers and offers learners a platform to tell their Chinese learning stories in Mandarin. I really admire Mischa’s work, the freshness of his ideas and the energy he puts forward. It’s one of the few independent Chinese learning blogs that publishes new content on a weekly basis.
What’s your favorite Chinese learning blog? Please feel free to comment down below.
Graded Chinese readers
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Great list, thank you for putting this together!
It’s sad to see that some of these wonderful blogs haven’t been updated for a long time or are not updated frequently. I hope to see fresh posts from their authors soon.
As an avid Chinese learner, I’m always in search of new blogs and resources to supplement my study. One of my recent findings is Hack Chinese blog – https://www.hackchinese.com/blog. I came to this blog looking for some tips to improve my Chinese vocabulary, and I immediately fell in love with it. This blog is run by Daniel Nalesnik, a guy who moved to Hong Kong from the US and dedicated over 10 years to studying Chinese. Daniel shares his practical advice on how to expand your vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and other important aspects of learning Chinese.
This blog has earned a lasting place among my favorite blogs for learning Chinese. I hope other language learners will enjoy it too.
Thanks very much for the tip! Impressive. I’ll check it out. Their learning tool looks pretty cool as well.
Have you heard of TUTOROO?
You can learn the Mandarin language by hiring a private tutor and TUTOROO can help you connect with them. You can also choose your own Mandarin tutor from their for online and in-person classes. Check out their website for more information. Hope this helps!
Excellent, I’ll add Tutoroo to the list. Thanks! : )
This is a great blog. A very useful Blog for Chinese learners. Lots of interesting resources for listening, reading and grammar.Thanks for sharing
Dragging this post back up, but I would also recommend https://explore-chinese.com/ for this list. Lots of great insights for what learning Chinese is really all about.
Hi Stephen, thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.