Conversational Chinese Oscars

[David W Jackson]

It's no secret is it that much of what passes for teaching spoken Chinese resources sold here in China is, well, pants. So inevitably you buy stuff only to find that it's not much use and before you know it you have a ton of useless books taking up valuable space. Maybe though, just maybe, you got lucky and found 2 or 3 really, really killer apps/books which if you had to get rid of your library, you'd die to hang on to. So I thought we could all benefit from posting our short-lists and maybe save each other some reinventing-the-wheel pain.

My nominations would be as follows:

First place: Tuttle Concise Chinese Dictionary (awesome HSK sentence examples)

Runner-up: Urban Chinese (a bit quirky but useful slang section)

Third Place: Popupchinese (real kouyu)