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About This Website

I hope you find these resources helpful. Please help me by reporting errors in the vocabulary lists and bugs in the online flashcards. Also, if you have the time to digitize some of the vocabulary lists from Chinese textbooks not found on this site, please email me <[email protected]> at hsk at git-pull.com. You can also follow us on Twitter at @HSKFlashCards.

Thanks, Tony

Historical Background

HSKFlashcards.com was originally founded by Jacob Marble, his original introduction of this website is preserved:

Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì: “The Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) is China's national standardized test...to assess the Chinese language proficiency of non-native speakers”

In 2006, I tried to find a list of the HSK vocabulary so that I could make myself some flashcards. I did find a couple of lists, but they were all incomplete in one way or another, so I merged several of those lists to get something better. The results of that work are available on this site. Many people including my Chinese teachers and users of this site have contributed since then by sending me typos, errors and missing words they have found in the lists. Topple recently reviewed all of the words in the first two levels and corrected several errors. Thanks, Topple!

New Practical Chinese Reader: “The objective of this series (NPCR) is to develop the student's ability to communicate using Chinese through the study of language structure, language function, and related cultural knowledge along with the training of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.”

In 2007, I found the Practical Chinese Reader (PCR) textbook series, and started using that curriculum to better formalize my study. I got the vocabulary lists for books 1 and 2 from Matti Tukiainen's website. I found book 3 at Dave Hiebeler's website. I converted these lists to UTF-8, added the traditional characters, made some small fixes, and added them to the HSK Flashcards.com database. The PCR books have been rewritten in a second edition, called the New Practical Chinese Reader. I have digitized NPCR books 1, 2 and 3. Topple offered his help by digitizing NPCR books 4 and 5.

Integrated Chinese: “Integrated Chinese (IC) helps learners understand how the Chinese language functions grammatically, and how to use Chinese in real life-how to understand it on the street, speak it on the telephone, read it in the newspaper, or write it in a report.”

Integrated Chinese is the newest textbook series on HSK Flashcards.com. This textbook series is printed in full-color with large Chinese characters for easy reading, available with traditional or simplified characters. The second edition has been in use for some time now, with the third edition recently being published. The second edition, level 1, comes from Konrad Wojas's website, where you can find lists and online flashcards for some other Chinese curricula. I digitized the third edition, level 1 parts 1 and 2.

Jake Marble, 马杰克