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
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
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 
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
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
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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.
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
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?
成长汉语 Growing up with Chinese
Entertaining, fun and easy to follow. This series has one hundred episodes, each fifteen minutes in length. The series´ aim is to use dramatic skits to teach three hundred of the most commonly spoken Chinese phrases to teenagers. It is hosted by Charlotte MacInnis, a television host who is known to Chinese audiences as Ai Hua.
Plus a nice article regarding the same topic: Learn Chinese Online: 67 Excellent Free Resources.
comprehensive site for German speakers: http://taeglich.chinesisch-trainer.de
(pictograms decomposed into parts an put back into words, good dictionary)
Great topic and thanks for sharing, must be a pain to keep up-to-date though. I was surprised I couldn’t find https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php among the links (unless I overlooked it somehow). It’s my personal favourite reference tool as it results both simplified as traditional Chinese and gives you a lot of freedom in your searches (characters, pinyin, romanised as well as english).
did we mention the language tips page from DailyChina?
http://language.chinadaily.com.cn/
and also this dictionary with audio? https://www.zhonga.org/chinese-english/ (it is ok, but it needs updating, for ex it does not know “humanoid” )
a little difficult for those not speaking Russian (I don’t speak russian, so I barely manage with it, but is one of the very few dictionaries online for technical/scientific terms) http://translate.academic.ru/摆脱/xx/en/
http://translate.academic.ru/檀/zh/xx/
Awesome post wish I’d seen it earlier!
Hi! The Anki Chinese sentences and audio, spoon fed link is broken. Here are a few mirror links.
I found this link on my computer today. I used this program (along with a few others) years ago when I was in the US and just beginning to make forays into learning how to read/write characters. There are short lessons in both Traditional and Simplified characters. It’s not graphically pretty, but it might be of interest to new learners.
Got a list of several good apps and sources
The best 5 Chinese apps for learning Mandarin in 2017
Memrise: Learn a new language (Android and iOS)
Basic version-free for both androids and IOS; Pro version- $8.93 per month
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Learn Chinese – TutorMandarin (https://www.tutormandarin.net/en/)
Free for the apps including free trial of classes; can get 1-on-1 classes with native speaker for a price as low as $10-20.
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Pleco Chinese Dictionary (Androids and iOS)
Free for the app; add-ons can cost from $14 – $80
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Skritter Chinese (Androids and iOS)
Free for 1st-week trial; $14.99 per month subscription
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The Chairman’s Bao (Android and iOS)
Free for app; subscription fee of $10 per month and $80 per month
The Chairman’s Bao app for learning Chinese
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