Questions tagged [resources]
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Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese: resource eviction
In the Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese thread, there are useless resources, e.g.: (a) some guy wrote an app back in 2004, and it hasn't been maintained since, or (b) a predatory company copies ...
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Should we add a Classical (and/or Literary) Chinese resource section to “Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese”?
The current central resource question is focussed on Modern Chinese. Should we add a Literary and/or Classical Chinese section?
Alternatively, should we just add a link to the current Classical ...
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What's the future for the “Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese” page?
I've been pretty clear about my attitude towards the Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese page for a while now.
It's obsolete. (It had many broken links, but I just edited.)
It's full of non-...
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Besides Chinese Stackexchange, what other sites are a good source of Q&A on Mainland Mandarin? And how can we bring those users to Stackexchange?
I found Chinese Stackexchange not as vibrant or active as other Stackexchange communities e.g. tech-related ones. I don't know if it's because it might be blocked in China or another reason.
So:
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How Physics.SE handles “resource recommendation question”
This post is just a reference, and food for thought. Maybe we can adapt some of these ideas.
Their policy is described here:
See my answer here for the
rationale behind this policy
Note that this ...
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What resources do you actively use to study Chinese, and why?
Resource questions are sometimes closed and redirected to Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese. This seems like a great idea, until you actually use it:
there's no quality control; many links are ...
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Fixing broken links in the “Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese” post
This is the post: Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese (and the relevant meta post is here: Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese: should we have it at all?)
Going through the links one by one, ...
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Help for finding relevant answers in this reference request question
Learning Chinese using traditional characters is great because traditional characters respect the rules in the Six Writings (六書).
It might be a little bit late, but it would be more helpful if ...
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Resources for learning Chinese dialects: Should we centralize this like we did mandarin chinese
This is a question in the same light as Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese: should we have it at all?
Most of these questions are scattered and not formatted or maintained to the same standard ...
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Why do we have a publicly usable “resources” tag when resources question are supposed to be off topic?
Resources questions are supposed to be off topic, we even have a specific close reason for resources questions.
However, there are a some questions which we have that specifically ask for resources ...
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A shortcoming with our existing resources question
I closed this question just now https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/5081/introduction-to-pinyin?noredirect=1 but it brought something to my attention. Our resources question Resources for ...
