Introducing 3000Hanzi

By Confused Laowai | Date: March 6th, 2012 | Category: Learning Techniques

I’m just loving how more and more awesome sites are popping up in the digital Chinese learning space lately. 3000Hanzi is the next resource that’s helping learners with reading Chinese. It not only has a great online reading system, where you can add links or text, but also has annotation, word frequency and more.

It was created by Steven Daniels, who is no stranger to the online Mandarin learning community, as he is behind Lingomi too. I’ve only recently started using 3000Hanzi, and so far I’m impressed. I see a good future for 3000Hanzi as Steven is diligent developer and learner. His blog shows that. I’m not going to an in-depth review of the site as this only an introduction.

Here’s a video that explains more:

In summary, in the words of Steven:

What is it: a tool to help learner read Chinese.
See it in action on youtube or youku.
How to get it: It’s available as part of 3000 Hanzi’s Basic subscription.

But wait, before you get your subscription, Confused Laowai is giving away a year subscription to 3000Hanzi courtesy of the site itself. All you have to do is comment below with your email address and you’ll be entered into a draw. The entries close on 23h59 GMT Friday March 9th 2012. Winner to be announced soon after.

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  • http://3000hanzi.com/ Steven Daniels

    Like you mentioned, this is just the beginning. 

    3000 Hanzi also has a pretty snappy Chinese-English dictionary with example sentences, and free vocab lists and quizzes too.

  • http://lookoutknockhead.com Mike Newton

    This is the reason why I open my RSS reader instead of getting ready to work. Throw my name into the drawing, Neil!

    mike[at]lookoutknockhead[dot]com.

  • Alex

    masterscriptmaker595[the-a-with-the-circle-around-it]gmail[dot-type-character]com

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Hi Alex,
    best non-spam email ever. You are entered into competition.

  • seanmeir

    seanmeir atsign gmail dot com

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Entered! Good luck!

  • http://www.beckyances.net/ Borkya

    OOOOH, Contest. Me likee! 
    Borkya{at}hotmail{dot}com

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Got your entry. I like contests too!

  • http://twitter.com/LWT_Project Learning with Texts

    Why did you delete my post?

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Hey Learning With Texts,

    something strange happened. I didn’t delete it. It got lost in moderation limbo.
    I still have the email with the comment, but when I wanted to moderate it, it was gone. No idea how that happened. I thought maybe you deleted it yourself.

    Alas, I’ll copy the email of your comment and quote it here:
    “To read Chinese texts (or texts in any other language that uses UTF characters), and to lookup, to save and to repeat unknown vocab in sentence context, you may also use “LWT” (Learning With Texts), a totally free & open source software in the Public Domain:

    http://lwt.sf.net If you preload into LWT the most important 10000 or 20000 words (e.g. from the HSK lists), the reading will be even more enjoyable…Try it out!”

    I have actually heard of LWT for quite a while now. Even before Benny brought it to limelight. I toyed with setting up my own server, but unfortunately time and lack of technical skill got the better of me.

    I think LWT, 3000Hanzi and ChineseLevel (mentioned a month ago here on my blog) all function well together. It depends on what the learner wants.
    Free and paid services shouldn’t be a determiner for a product’s viability.
    You get free (and open source) software that can handle both things,
    depends on the needs of the learner mostly.

  • James Stange

    謝謝! 

    james[點的字]stange [圈裡a的字]gmail[點的字]com

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Hi James,

    another clever no-spam entry :)
    Entered into competition!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661856637 Tym Ball

    I’m not gonna let this pass! Enter me in!
    timothy{DOT}maoyuting{AT}gmail{DOT}com

    PS love this anti spam trend you got in your comments thread!!!

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Haha, loving the anti-spam trend too.
    Entered!

  • Brett

    Looks good.  I’m in. 

    learnthaifromawhiteguy AT gmail DOT com

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Entered!

  • http://twitter.com/LetChinaSleep LetChinaSleep

    this seems like a really really great program, I’d love to try it! ozguidry@yahoo.com 

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Entered!

  • http://www.peckishlaowai.com Peckish Laowai

    Dammit I’m too late! Awesome tool :)

  • http://niel.delarouviere.com NielDLR

    Dammit, next time! :)