Here you will find a growing list of resources for getting comprehensible, compelling input in Chinese

The sheet is separated into the following categories (look at the bottom of this sheet for the tabs)

If you'd like to recommend resources to add to this sheet, email me at: essie@singandlearnchinese.com

Here you'll find Youtubers who speak primarily in Chinese. A mix of native speakers and high-level learners.

And this is what you'll find in the "Youtube" tab

Here you will find a list of podcats you can listen to without having to stare at a screen ;)

In the "Podcasts" tab, you will find:

Here you will find a list of musicians so that you can look up their songs on Spotify or youtube.

In the "Musicians" tab, you will find:

Here you will find resources that don't fit in the previous categories, including useful websites and youtubers who teach how to learn languages, etc

In the "Other Resources" tab you will find:

What do we mean by "Level"?

Level is a rough estimate of what you are able to understand.

(Huge shout out to Pablo Roman of Dreaming Spanish for coming up with the Superbeginner, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced levels).

We've also added one more level "Native" which is higher than Advanced. Here is the approximate description for each level:

You have had about 0 Chinese input in your life and understand virtually nothing.

You've had close to 300+ hours of Chinese input and understand very simple Chinese.

You've had close to 1000+ hours of Chinese input and understand moderately difficult Chinese content and conversations.

You've had close to 3000+ hours of Chinese input and understand almost everything you hear and see in videos as long as it's not very esoteric / niche-specific.

You are pretty much indistinguishable from a native-born Chinese speaker in terms of understanding content