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Free, Comprehensive, and Practical
Resources for Chinese grammar have been scattered, incomprehensible, and hidden behind paywalls for way too long. Wikipedia has shown us how it's done, and this wiki has taken up the challenge of making Chinese grammar accessible to all. We've already got 2,125 articles online, and we're growing! If you'd like to contribute, please get in touch.

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We've designed this resource to work well with popular browser plugins for reading Chinese characters:

Get Started

This grammar wiki is designed to be browsable and user-friendly, accessible to beginners while still possessing the depth that more advanced users will find useful. The best way to get started is to just jump right in and start clicking around. Not everything is finished yet, but content is continually being added. (If you'd like to contribute content, by all means, get in touch!)

Note that this wiki does make extensive use of Chinese characters. In order to save the time of the editors and direct it toward real content additions, we do not provide pinyin for characters. We realize that this makes the content far less accessible to beginners, but there is a solution: students of Chinese should install free browser extensions to handle the character issue. In this way, the burden is taken off of our editors' shoulders, and the wheel need not be reinvented with regards to this particular issue.

Referenced Throughout

To create this grammar wiki, AllSet Learning and its editor partners have made extensive use of various high-quality Chinese grammar reference materials. We strongly recommend them to any serious student of Chinese grammar. Purchasing these books by clicking on the grammar references linked within this website will also help to support this project.

Some of the key reference materials for this wiki have been:

A Note to AllSet Learning Clients

What you see here is the beta version of the new AllSet Learning Grammar Wiki. We are slowly adding content and filling out the grammar information and sample sentences. We will prioritize the content which is most relevant to your study needs.

In the meantime, you can make use of the AllSet Learning Grammar Standards, which are complete through Level B2 (Upper Intermediate).

About AllSet Learning

AllSet Learning is a Shanghai-based learning consultancy dedicated to helping foreigners better learn Mandarin Chinese. While most of the company's services are only available to clients physically in Shanghai, this wiki is open to the public through a Creative Commons license. When other projects become available, we will definitely put a notice here!

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