Summary

hskflashcards.com offers an amazingly easy way to prepare for the Mandarin Chinese HSK (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì; simplified Chinese: 汉语水平考试; traditional Chinese: 漢語水平考試) exam (view Wikipedia). The site provides you with free PDF downloads for all the vocabulary you'll need to pass the test! You cana also browse the vocabulary through the site itself, or create an account to study them online right through your web browser.

Additionally, the site provides printable vocabulary cards for two of the major Mandarin Chinese intructional textbooks used worldwide: the Practical Chinese Reader (PCR) and New Practical Chinese Reader (NPCR).

And it's all free! Bravo Jake, nice work indeed. :)

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Welcome to HSK Flashcards. This site is intented to be a one-stop resource for HSK vocabulary lists and flashcards for people studying Mandarin Chinese. To begin studying the flashcards right now, just click the green “study” button on your left.

The entire HSK vocabulary list is available to download in several file formats, including flashcards in PDF format (suitable for printing on Avery business card paper). Recently, I added the Practical Chinese Reader textbook vocabulary lists, as well as the vocabulary lists from the New Practical Chinese Reader.

If you find errors in any of the lists, please email me. If you need the lists in another file format, please email me. If you have a suggestion for the website, please email me. If you're bored, please email me.

Mandarin Chinese is an interesting, useful language! I hope this site helps your exploration and learning!

Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì: “The Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) is China's national standardized test...to assess the Chinese language proficiency of non-native speakers”

In 2006, I tried to find a list of the HSK vocabulary so that I could make myself some flashcards. I did find a couple of lists, but they were all incomplete in one way or another, so I merged several of those lists to get something better. The results of that work are available on this site. Many people have contributed since then by sending in the typos, errors and missing words they have found in the lists. Topple recently reviewed all of the words in all four lists, and found several deficiencies. Thanks, Topple!

New Practical Chinese Reader: “NPCR is a new series of textbooks designed for native English speakers to learn Chinese. ... The objective of this series is to develop the student's ability to communicate using Chinese through the study of language structure, language function, and related cultural knowledge along with the training of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.”

In 2007, I found the Practical Chinese Reader textbook series, and started using that curriculum to better formalize my study. Matti Tukiainen has the vocabulary lists for books 1, 2 and 3 on his website. I've added those lists to this site. The PCR books have been rewritten in a second edition, called the New Practical Chinese Reader. I have digitized NPCR books 1, 2 and 3. Topple recently offered his help by digitizing NPCR books 4 and 5 (well, book 5 will be here soon).

— Jake Marble, 马杰克

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Summary

Vocabulix is a great resource for verb conjugations and vocabulary building through self-testing for English, German and Spanish language learners. Have a look at the verb conjugators for English, German and Spanish. Or test yourself in either of these thrree languages with the verb drills tool.

As the name would have you believe, you can also increase your vocabulary skills using their vocabulary builder, which allows you to determine a level of study, choose the type of test and review the terms before starting. Quite handy!

Also of note are the friend finder and lesson creation tool (available only when logged in).

Use Vocabulix Here!

You can use the tools below to conjugate verbs quickly right here, too!

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Learn Languages free and online with Vocabulix: Improve your vocabulary skills in foreign languages, online and free!

Vocabulary Builder

With over 90 predefined vocabulary lessons or create your own foreign language lessons and share them with other online users (also: French, Italian, Portuguese, Czech...)

Verb Drills

Learn Spanish verb conjugations, learn German conjugations or learn English conjugations with this efficient tool. Verb drills

Verb Conjugation Tables

In Spanish, German and English.

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Update from ChinesePod.com

This just in from the folks at Praxis Language's ChinesePod:

1000 Lessons!

This month ChinesePod hit an exciting milestone: its 1,000th lesson! Many thanks go to our loyal Poddies for all their support over the last 1,000 podcasts, and especially for the countless creative and useful lesson ideas. We could never have made it without you! So, now that we've covered every topic from toilet talk to being abducted by aliens, we toast a glass of baijiu in your honor, and look forward to what's to come. Have a listen to our special celebratory podcast.

Congratulations!

ChinesePod really is an amazing and fun way to learn Mandarin. Take the tour and find out more!

French, Spanish and Italian, too!

They might not yet have 1,000 episodes, but Praxis Language also offers excellent podcasts for learning French, Spanish and Italian. Click an image below to find out.

Summary

The useful Spanish phrases section of the Omniglot website contains all the truly basic phrases you would want to know when traveling in a Spanish-speaking country.

Furthermore, audio versions of these phrases can be downloaded (zip file containing mp3s) from the site for learners to hear these phrases spoken by a native Spanish speaker and practice pronunciation. You can transfer these to your favorite mp3 player (iPod, Creative Zen, Zune, etc.) and learn them while going about your day. And with four ways to ask "Where is the toilet?", you know no matter where you are you will be understood and pointed in the right direction!

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Useful Spanish Phrases

A collection of useful phrases in Spanish. Click on the English phrases to see them in many other languages.

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Summary

Study English News is a useful site for learning English by reading the news. Every day the site is updated with new content for beginner, intermediate and advanced English learners. Bascially, the same article is taken and written in three different ways to properly match the reading and vocabulary skills of these three levels. It's great!

The site also has an English proficiency test and grammar files. The latter provides the basics for many important English grammar points including present simple, possessive pronouns, adverbs and adverbs of frequency, comparatives, superlatives, present continuous, past simple, past simple irregular, future, 1st conditional, present perfect, past continuous, phrasal verbs, 2nd conditional and 3rd conditional.

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Study English News is for anyone who wants to enjoy learning English. Read our interactive news articles, and resolve your grammar problems with our grammar files.

Use this site for fun, to study for exams or practise for important conferences. Visit us once a day and watch your English improve!

Study English News è un sito interattivo scritto tutto in inglese che ti permette di leggere le ulitime notizie in inglese al tuo livello. Clicca sulle parole che non conosci per ricevere subito una definizione. Visitaci ogni giorno e guarda come tuo inglese verrà migliorato!

Study English News est un site interactif entièrement rédigé en anglais qui vous permet de lire les dernières actualités à votre niveau d'anglais. Cliquez sur les mots que vous ne connaissez pas afin d'en lire la définition.

Study English News es un sitio web interactivo escrito todo en ingles que te permite leer las últimas noticias en tu nivel de inglés. Haz clic sobre la palabra que no conoces para ver su tradución.

Study English News 是個全新的互動網站，讓你依個人程度閱讀新聞。 點選反白的生字以獲取簡單易懂的解釋。

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