Language learning resources

German

• German in 3 months: textbook teaching German from scratch (I actually like the older editions of this book from Hugo better)
• Dino lernt Deutsch: book series describing the misadventures of an international student in Germany, increasing in difficulty level
• Tagesschau in einfacher Sprache: daily news explained in simplified German

Russian

• The New Penguin Russian Course: curriculum building up Russian knowledge from zero, very succinct and well-structured
• Russian with Max: comprehensible input from A2-B2 level about interesting topics, also on Spotify
• Удивительное истории: 116 текстов для чтения, изучения и развлечения: Russian stories, often from famous authors, rewritten to use simple language and with uncommon vocab in the margins
• Lernen Sie Russland kennen! (Valeria M. Nechaeva): book with authentic Russian readings and vocab definitions in the footnotes exploring Russia after the end of the USSR (but you have to know German)

Chinese

• Hanzi Writer Demo: visualize correct stroke order of Chinese characters online
• Chinese Grammar Wiki: explanations of Chinese grammar topics, sorted by A/B/C or by HSK levels
• Lazy Chinese: comprehensible input in Mandarin, sorted by proficiency level and with interactive transcripts (both free and premium content)
• 一千字說華語中英文版: open Mandarin textbook from Taiwan
• Chinese in Levels: short daily news articles in Simplified Chinese, separated by difficulty level
• A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese from Routledge
• The Journey to the West in Easy Chinese: the classical novel, rewritten to use a more limited vocabulary and set of characters
• PunMemeCN: a GitHub repo of Chinese memes, together with structured data providing an explanation of each pun meme and example chat contexts in which it would be used