As the Chinese saying goes, 磨刀不误砍柴工, sharpening your axe will not slow you down from chopping firewood. As a teacher, finding the right teaching tools can help the students learn much more efficiently and make the job easier for yourself. It goes the same for the language learners.
There are plenty of language learning resources, but weeding out "the useless" and "the costly" ones can be time consuming, here I listed the ones that are tried and true. For more resources, please click the button above named "Teaching Tools".
Bookmarked Basics:
Word Dictionary: TrainChinese
All the essentials for a Mandarin Teacher or student, and they are all free!
Quizlet link to DiamondClass
Type Pinyin with Tone Marks
Stroke Order tool with
the cleanest interface
3-side Flashcards:
Flashcard w games:
Reading Materials:
Online-Teaching Must-haves:
Since you only got so many hours in a day, so let's say everything on the left are the absolute "must-haves" for remote teaching/learning and everything on the right are "better-haves".
Tools your students should have:
First of all, your students should bookmark all the basic tools listed above.
Perfect Tool for Vocab and Sentence Review during Summer Break!
Makes learning new vocabulary so much easier!
Number, Days & Months, Color, Animals, Fruit & Veg, Phrases