MandarinClips - Showcase Project
Listed October 7, 2026
About MandarinClips
Search engine for authentic Mandarin — find how real people say it in film & TV.
MandarinClips turns 180,000+ real movie & TV dialogue clips into searchable, classroom-ready teaching material. Every clip keeps its context — the line before, the line after, who says it and why it works — and comes with Chinese subtitles, pinyin, English translation, HSK level and timestamp. Teachers find authentic examples in seconds instead of hours of subtitle-mining; learners hear how expressions are actually used, from casual refusal (还是算了吧) to workplace pragmatics. The corpus is organized into browsable libraries of colloquial expressions, grammar patterns and cultural scenarios, each linked back to timestamped video evidence. Free to start, with premium features for heavy users.
Project details
Website: https://www.mandarinclips.com