★ Includes 100 real-life topics with 18 practical phrases per topic and native-speaker audio. 50LANGUAGES offers a free Chinese phrasebook organized around 100 practical, everyday topics, with useful phrases for situations such as introductions, travel, shopping, dining, and conversation. Each topic includes Chinese text, English translations, and native-speaker audio, making it useful for both quick reference and listening and pronunciation practice. Audio files can also be downloaded for offline study. The website works best using the Google Chrome browser. Available on: Android and iOS.

★ Organizes practical Mandarin travel phrases by real-world situations and includes recorded pronunciations. Forvo’s Useful Travel Phrases in Chinese Mandarin provides phrases for everyday situations, banking, medical care, shopping, transportation, dining, directions and more, along with an Essentials section covering useful travel vocabulary. Phrases include translations, written forms and recorded pronunciations. The guide is free to use on their website, while the optional Forvo Travel app is paid. Available on Android and iOS.

★ 100+ practical travel phrases include pinyin, English translations, and male and female Mandarin audio. GoChina Help’s Survival Chinese is a free online phrasebook organized by real-world situations such as emergencies, transportation, hotels, dining, shopping, directions, medical needs, and communication. Each phrase includes Chinese characters, pinyin, an English translation, audio playback, and a copy button for quickly showing the phrase to someone in China. The page can also be printed for offline reference.

★ Visual vocabulary guides pair Chinese words with images, audio, and interactive listening and speaking practice. LanguageGuide.org’s Chinese Visual Vocabulary is a free resource for learning Mandarin vocabulary by topic, with Chinese characters, pinyin, pronunciation audio, and illustrated vocabulary covering numbers, the body, food, animals, nature, the home, tools, geography, and more. Learners can tap or hover over items to hear them pronounced and reinforce vocabulary with listening and speaking challenges.

★ 125 free lessons combine practical Chinese vocabulary and phrases with audio pronunciation and interactive games. LingoHut offers beginner-friendly Chinese lessons organized around everyday topics, with simplified Chinese characters, pinyin, translations, audio, and activities for practicing vocabulary and listening. The lessons are completely free, require no account or login.

★ Combines practical topic-based Chinese vocabulary with native audio and downloadable MP3 and PDF study materials. Loecsen Chinese Vocabulary is a free resource for learning useful Mandarin words and phrases organized around everyday situations such as conversation, transportation, restaurants, hotels, family, numbers and emergencies. Learners can listen to native-speaker audio, practice pronunciation and download materials for offline study. Available on the web, Android and iOS.

★ Combines essential everyday words and phrases with native-speaker audio and a Speech Studio for comparing your pronunciation with the teacher’s. Mandarin Chinese by Nemo is a vocabulary, phrase, and pronunciation practice app designed for learning useful Mandarin in short study sessions. Rather than following a traditional course with sequential lessons, you choose the words and phrases you want to learn and practice them using native-speaker audio, flashcard-style activities, quizzes, and review. The Speech Studio lets you record your voice and compare your pronunciation with a native speaker. The app can also be used offline and supports both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Available for iOS and Android.

★ Free Mandarin phrase collections pair pinyin and practical usage notes with native teacher audio. NetChai Chinese Phrases provides hundreds of useful phrases for everyday and survival Chinese, along with curated lists for daily conversation, travel, business, hospitality, and phrases for kids. Individual entries include Chinese characters, pinyin, English meanings, usage guidance, and audio recorded by native NetChai teachers

★ Teaches both what travelers need to say and the replies they are likely to hear, with audio for all 490 lines. The Pure Language’s Chinese for Travellers is a free resource covering 17 leisure and business travel situations, including airports, taxis, trains, hotels, restaurants, payments, shopping, emergencies, meetings, negotiations, shipping and more. Each situation includes useful phrases, common replies, mistakes to avoid, audio, and a short quiz, with additional printable phrasebook and practice tools

★ Hear thousands of common Chinese sentences with professional audio in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Speechling’s Free Audio Dictionary is a free searchable resource for checking useful Chinese words and phrases in context, with pinyin, English translations, and recordings from professional voice actors. Individual entries include male and female pronunciation audio, making it especially useful for listening and pronunciation practice. Available on the web, Android and iOS.

★ Includes audio, pinyin, and literal meanings for a large collection of practical Mandarin phrases. Standard Mandarin Chinese Phrases is a free phrasebook organized by topics such as greetings, courtesy, restaurants, travel, hotels, transportation, shopping, money, medical needs, conversation, and survival phrases. Each entry gives the Chinese phrase, pinyin, an English meaning, a literal translation, and pronunciation audio, making it useful for both quick reference and speaking practice. Available on the web. Standard Mandarin also offers a pronunciation-focused iOS app.