Resources

Youtube Channels We Recommend You Check Out:

Mandarin Corner A great channel for listening practice and acquiring useful vocabulary used in day to day life.
Grace Mandarin Chinese A channel that often covers grammar, vocabulary, and Chinese culture in high quality.
ShuoshuoChinese说说中文 A channel that often covers grammar, vocabulary, and Chinese culture in high quality.
Yoyo Chinese A channel that often covers grammar, vocabulary, and Chinese culture in typically short videos.
啾啾鞋 A channel which posts high quality content in Mandarin about a variety of topics. The channel is quite active and posts often.

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融融歷險記Ben’s Adventure A Mandarin- language travel vlog channel.

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X調查 A Mandarin language channel that covers mysteries. Often covers Japanese mysteries.

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Taiwan Bar

 

A channel that covers politics and other touchy topics in high quality videos.

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Kevin in Shanghai Makes videos predominantly in Mandarin and English about Chinese culture

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Thomas阿福 Probably the most, if not amongst the most famous 外國人 in China. Uploads often and makes content on a variety of topics, predominantly in Mandarin.

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Places To Help You Make Chinese Friends:

Tandem A penpal app which gives you many customization options & can be used with many languages at once.
HelloTalk A penpal app. Plain old penpal app.
Discord – Link specific places on these media sites where people can make Chinese friends
Telegram A messenger app which has many language learning group chats.
Reddit – has many resources and is good platform to ask questions r/chineselanguage r/chinese

 

Additional Resource Lists:

https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/resources