@Hydroptere - there should be a link to it - see below
I do see the bilingual titles: but when I click that I get the text only in English; I cannot see both versions on the same page…
many thanks anyhow!
Hi, I’ve updated the list but I’m not sure about the channels displaying like that 
For the lesson videos I prefer Xue bai and Xiao min for more extensive concepts, Angel huang for really short lessons, Bedroom chinese for variety… a lot of the lessons are for beginners though, but good to review concepts.
I’ve added some native channels and some of them have English subs, I suggest you check out iCNTV 走遍中国官方频道 Go around China Official Channel, TMD Shanghai or Croton Media｜FUN 愛情公寓 淑女澀男… there are endless possibilities. I wish I had time to watch so much content!
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我学很多在 Mango Languages.
I learn a lot on Mango Languages. It’s an app that your local library may offer to registered patrons for free, but otherwise it costs a lot of money. It’s very conversational and it was my main learning platform for my critical period in Chinese.
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Podcasts are awesome!
Slow Chinese， 慢速中文，is an excellent free podcast for studying current events and interesting topics. They all have a Chinese transcript, and most have an English transcript as well.
Popup Chinese has a lot of original stories at many skill levels, free and paid content. Also check out the Sinica podcasts in the sidebar for interesting and intellectual discussions about current events in China.
http://www.popupchinese.com/podcasts
There are many more if you search the itunes store, but these two are the best I’ve come across.
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does anybody know a course that asks you to recognise the Simplified when promoted with Traditional?
(there was one course doing the opposite - type the traditional when prompted with simplified, but I cannot type traditional)
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Have you tried the Microsoft IME? The Taiwanese Traditional has sneakily included the jyutping method in there so it also contains a method for typing Cantonese characters. I installed it recently and it seems OK. I don’t use a PC for much besides work though and my language study is done via browser or app on one or another flavour of Android phone or tablet.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=30390
find out the pinyin/readings: http://hanyu.iciba.com/pinyin
fast/machine translation: http://fanyi.youdao.com/
free material, with audio, “with love from Europe”: http://www.chinese4.eu/de/ (choose your language up in the menu, the site speaks all EU languages)
flashcards for every HSK level: http://www.hsk.academy/ ; http://www.wohok.com/mandarin/hsk_test/hsk6/eng/intro.html
Wohok has both, Mandarin and Cantonese: http://www.wohok.com/index.php
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Internet slang, expressions: http://www.chinasmack.com/glossary
if you go to the “stories” section, the hovering of your mouse over the English text makes visible the original Chinese text
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Thanks for all the contributions! They are all great 
I’ve added some new to the list too. Keep 'em coming!
BTW, follow me if you’re learning Chinese, and I’ll follow you! I want a more active ranking 
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It’s a great resource for beginners, but they don’t focus too much on adding new high level articles, even though the lower level articles use a lot of advanced words.
For more serious reading I suggest this forum: Chinese Book Club or sites like 读文章 and 爱读文
here are intermediate level resources:
http://challenges.hackingchinese.com/resources/Intermediate
and here of course advanced http://challenges.hackingchinese.com/resources/Intermediate
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Hey guys, in the meantime I suggest you play this game which is really well done and useful! https://wordswing.com/cards/text-game/escape/intro
百折不挠
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Here’s a resource I wish I had before I starting studying HSK vocabulary. It is a list of similar words that occur in the Memrise user amargatarde’s set of “HSK Complete Traditional Characters.” For example, if Memrise gives you an English clue that says “immediately”, then you may wonder, “Well that could be about ten different words.” This is designed to solve that problem. Search for the word in this Excel document that I made. It probably doesn’t have every possible word you may confuse, but it has over 2000 rows, should resolve most of your ambiguities.
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Anyone tried Champolu?
I just came across a Teresa Teng song on their site, in their “fun section”, with words in English, pinyin, hanzi… http://champolu.com/songs/51xS4yXbryc.html
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More free sites for 3rd world citizens necessary.
There are many free sites out there. Can you not find enough? are you looking for special resources?