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I am a Chinese teacher in Australia and I have been totally astounded with the results your games have produced. Thank you very much for producing these which, despite their simplicity, are so fantastically effective.

Ian Perry, The Gap State High School (Brisbane, Australia)

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Ann Light, the International School of Beijing (China)

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Learn Chinese while playing games: it's educational, it's fun, it's smart.

Play FREE online educational games for learning Chinese from our members-only site LittleNex_.com and enjoy FREE Chinese learning tools such as picture flashcards with both pinyin and Chinese characters (calligraphy and print), annotated bilingual ebooks in basic, intermediate, and advanced Chinese, and Chinese vocabulary lists carefully organized by subject and difficulty level and featuring pinyin and English translation.

You will also find here free excerpts of well-known literature works in Chinese with their Chinese vocabulary guides in English and pinyin to help with Mandarin reading. Quiz yourself in a fun and interactive way with our FREE Chinese characters online flashcards. Help yourself to some awesomely cool wallpapers that will help you memorize the most difficult Chinese characters. Help your kids and toddlers learn Chinese, find the meaning of your name in Chinese or just have fun exploring our website!

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What You Will Learn

Mandarin

Unless otherwise stated, Chinese is understood as Mandarin Chinese throughout the website.

Cantonese which is a major Chinese dialect spoken around the world will be added later to our program.

Simplified Characters

The Chinese characters we feature are the simplified characters officially used in China.

Traditional characters can nonetheless be learned with some of our flashcards, games, and ebooks.

Pinyin

We use Pinyin to represent the standard pronunciation of Mandarin in all of our content.

Jyutping is used as the notation system for Cantonese. Read more...

What's New

Intermediate Chinese eBooks x

Cinderella: Chinese Text and Vocabulary

EBook in new format with vocabulary guide attached! Each selected vocabulary word appears in blue in the text, and listed with its pinyin and English definition in the guide. Cross-referenced reading and vocabulary sections allow you to jump easily back and forth.
Bilingual eCards x

Chinese New Year eCards

4 new eCards for the Year of the Dog! Impress your friends and send them an eCard in Chinese. Select the image, choose your sentiment (in English or in Chinese), and you're good to go!
Chinese Learning Games x

Chinese Learning Game

Learn the names of all the colors of the rainbow and more in Chinese! There are 3 levels and 45 questions to answer. Start with red, yellow, green, and blue, and end up learning pink, brown, and golden as well!
Intermediate Chinese Flashcards x

New Flashcards: Chinese Cuisine!

16 new Chinese printable flashcards about Chinese food: learn the words for tofu, satay, oyster sauce, and more!
Harry Potter Vocabulary x

New in our Harry Potter section!

New vocabulary list in our Harry Potter section: THE NAMES LIST! It's 6 pages long and... FREE! Reading Chinese is often made difficult because of those groups of characters that don't make sense if you don't recognize them as the translation of a name. If you want to breeze through your Harry Potter books in Chinese, you definitely need that vocabulary list!
Free Virtual Blackboard x

Free Online Blackboard to practice Writing Chinese

Use our FREE online tool from our members-only site LittleNex_.com to practice writing Chinese and turn any device into a virtual blackboard! Simple and easy-to-use, and ready when you are wherever you are.
Advanced Vocabulary x

Chinese Exam: HSK Level 1

Student's Special: here is the UNCLUTTERED and complete list of the 150 words you must know to pass your HSK level 1! HSK is a Chinese Language Proficiency test. Learn more about it here.
Harry Potter in Chinese x

Read Harry Potter in Chinese

Read free excerpts from the Chinese version of the Harry Potter books! Each excerpt comes with its own vocabulary list (pinyin and English included).

Learn Chinese Now!

Chinese Learning Games

Learn Pinyin and Chinese characters with fun mini-games that have been proven effective by teachers around the world!
Chinese Printable Flashcards

Neat, illustrated and colorful flashcards with English, Pinyin, and 2 different styles of Chinese characters.
Chinese Online Flashcards

Character-based online flashcards are color-coded for the 4 tones in Mandarin. Image-based flashcards are a quick way to memorize Chinese.
Ebooks in Chinese

Beginner ebooks show word-for-word Pinyin and English. More advanced Chinese texts include annotations and selected Pinyin / translation.
Chinese Vocabulary

Learn useful Chinese words with our basic to advanced Chinese vocabulary lists by subjects and read-along vocabulary guides.
Harry Potter in Chinese!

Read Chinese with the Harry Potter books! Get FREE extracts from the Chinese edition and FREE vocabulary guides to follow along.
Wallpapers

Visually memorize complex Chinese characters or words with wallpapers! Choose your format: desktop, mobile, or tablet.
Chinese for Kids

Let your kids learn simple Chinese with coloring pages, spot-the-difference games, and pair-off games!
The Bookstore

Visit our bookstore for reference books, dictionaries, novels, comic books, children's books, all for learning Chinese!

The Chinese Languages

Chinese is a group of related but quite different language varieties.

The varieties of Chinese are usually described as dialects for political reasons but they are linguistically as diverse and different as languages.

For example, somebody from Beijing where people speak Beijing Mandarin would have a hard time understanding somebody from Hong Kong where people speak Cantonese .
Mutual Understanding

There are between 7 and 13 main regional groups of Chinese.

Most of them share common terms and some degree of intelligibility or understanding.

A person speaking only Cantonese can still find out what a person from Beijing wants to say, just by following a set of conversion patterns.

For example, most characters pronounced bian in Beijing are converted into bin in Cantonese.
Mandarin is a Standard

Why is Mandarin always presented as the official Chinese language?

Mandarin or Standard Chinese (also called Putonghua, Guoyu, or Huayu) is the standardized form of the Beijing dialect.

Mandarin is the official language of China and Taiwan, as well as one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations. This position on the international scene makes it look like a run-of-the-mill language.
Transcriptions of Chinese

Pinyin is the phonetics developed in the 1950s by Mainland China for transliterating Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet.

Pinyin is not the only transcription system for Chinese. Other systems such as Zhuyin or Bopomofo, the Yale Romanization or the Wade-Giles, which was the system in use in the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century, are also valid and commonly known notation systems.
Simplified and Traditional Chinese Characters

Two Chinese writing systems are in place. Simplified characters are officially used in Mainland China, Singapore, and the United Nations. Traditional Chinese characters are used in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and in the overseas Chinese communities around the world.

To learn more on Chinese traditional characters, Chinese simplified characters, pinyin and other Chinese languages, see the Chinese language courses at our Member website LittleNex.com

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