Chinese Language Software

Chinese language software is made by quite a few companies. I'm talking here about software for learning Chinese.

Please note that I have not much used any of these programs for Chinese, but I am very familiar with all of them for Spanish. (I spend a lot of time in Mexico, and this website is an outgrowth of a similar one I did on Spanish.)

Based on having used the programs for Spanish, I came into this research with some pretty strong opinions, but I also knew that just because a company had an excellent program for learning one language didn't mean that they would have done as good a job on another one. In working on these pages on how to learn Chinese fast, I have read many reviews of the various programs around the internet.

Multi-Media Computer Programs

The best known multi-media program is probably Rosetta Stone Chinese, but I am much more of a fan of Fluenz Mandarin in that category. Why? Because I subscribe to the learning theory behind their work. For more on this, see the individual pages for each program.

Audio Programs

For programs where the heart of the program is listening to CDs or MP3 files, Rocket Chinese and Pimsleur Mandarin are both very good.

Most people who are using Chinese language software want to learn Mandarin, which is the official language of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. If you happen to want to learn Cantonese, which is spoken in parts of southern China, in Hong Kong, and around the world where people from this region have settled, then take a look at Pimsleur Cantonese.

All these links take you to pages on this site, and from there you can go to places that provide these products.

Note: If you click through to Amazon, Rocket Languages, or some other sites, and if you purchase something, I may receive compensation. This income allows me to be able to afford to spend the time working on this site, and I appreciate your patronage.

Also, please be aware that according to new FTC regulations, websites are now supposed to indicate what benefits the average user of a product could expect. I suspect that most average users of any product for learning languages are not terribly likely to keep going and thus not very likely to learn a lot. I will be developing more tips to help you keep going.

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◦	COMPARISON: Fluenz Mandarin and Rocket Chinese
◦	Fluenz Mandarin
◦	Rocket Chinese
◦	Rosetta Stone Chinese
◦	Pimsleur Mandarin
◦	Pimsleur Cantonese
◦	Chinese Language Software
◦	Learn Chinese Fast
◦	Free Mandarin Chinese Lessons
◦	Learning Mandarin – What Are All Those Tones?
◦	I Learned Cantonese When I Thought it Was Mandarin
◦	Learn Chinese as a New Year’s Resolution?
◦	The Increasing Importance of Learning Chinese

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