UN Web TV
Free
UN sessions with the original floor audio and all six official booths, Chinese and Spanish included. Full archive, freely accessible.
Resources for Chinese interpreters and translators
Reference and training tools for professional Chinese interpreting and translation: speech recordings, term banks, corpora, dictionaries and Spanish reference works. Each entry states whether access is free or paid, and any restrictions on use.
Interpreting practice
Recordings of real speeches with Chinese and Spanish audio, for simultaneous and consecutive training.
Speech Repository — European Commission
Free, non-commercial use
Over 4,500 video speeches, filterable by level, mode and subject. Mandarin, Cantonese and Spanish are among its 34 languages.
Part of the catalogue is reserved for partner universities and EU-accredited interpreters.
UN language exam preparation
Free
Practice papers, listening audio and answer keys for all six official languages, Chinese and Spanish included, downloadable without an account.
Terminology and official discourse
Term banks of institutional, scientific and technical vocabulary with official equivalents.
UNTERM
Free, no sign-up
The UN's official terminology aligned across its six languages: a single search returns both the Chinese and the Spanish rendering of the same term.
术语在线 — Termonline
Free, optional registration
More than 800,000 scientific and technical terms approved by China's national terminology committee, each with its English equivalent.
术语库 — 中国外文局
Free
Official term bank for Chinese political and institutional discourse, from the China International Communications Group and the China Academy of Translation.
Accessible over http only. Mirrored at tppckte.org.cn.
中国关键词 — Palabras Clave de China
Free
Spanish edition of the key concepts of official Chinese discourse, with equivalents established at source.
Chinese corpora
Searchable collections for checking the use and frequency of a word or collocation.
BCC Corpus — Beijing Language and Culture University
Free, optional registration
Some 15 billion characters of press, literature, spoken language, early modern and classical Chinese, searchable as separate channels.
Without an account you can export 1,000 hits; with one, 10,000.
CCL Corpus — Peking University
Free
Concordances of modern and classical Chinese, filterable by decade and by dynasty.
It operates on port 8080, which is blocked on many corporate and campus networks.
Chinese dictionaries
General and character dictionaries. The most complete Chinese works are Chinese-English; there is no Chinese-Spanish equivalent of comparable scope.
Pleco
Free app; US$29.99 and US$59.99 bundles, one-time purchase
Chinese dictionary for mobile, with camera recognition and the Guifan monolingual in the Professional bundle. The included works are Chinese-English and Chinese-Chinese; there is no Spanish.
MDBG
Free
Online Chinese-English dictionary, with handwriting input, full-text annotation and study flashcards.
CC-CEDICT
Free, CC BY-SA 4.0
Chinese-English database of 124,727 entries (July 2026), downloadable and reusable, commercial use included, with attribution. A starting point for in-house glossaries.
漢典 — Zdic
Free
Monolingual dictionary with over 100,000 characters, Kangxi and Shuowen entries and stroke-order animations.
Servers in mainland China; response times from Mexico are high.
《现代汉语词典》（第7版）
Free app, paid content (Commercial Press)
The normative dictionary of modern Chinese. Its only official digital edition is the Commercial Press app; there is no web edition.
Wiktionary
Free, CC BY-SA
For each character: glyph origin, components, readings in Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Min and Wu plus Middle and Old Chinese, and hundreds of compounds.
Chinese-Spanish dictionaries
There is no online Chinese-Spanish dictionary of professional scope. The two reference works for this pair are print editions by the same author.
《新汉西词典》
Paid, print
Chinese-Spanish, by Sun Yizhen, published by the Commercial Press: 1,162 pages and no official online edition. ISBN 9787100018357.
《新时代西汉大词典》
Paid, print
Spanish-Chinese, same author and publisher, 2008: around 2,343 pages. ISBN 9787100028851.
PONS Chinese-Spanish
Free tier, paid features
One of the few direct Chinese-Spanish dictionaries available online.
The Spanish side
Normative and descriptive works of reference for Spanish.
DLE — Real Academia Española
Free
The normative dictionary of Spanish, with full conjugation and synonyms in the same entry.
DEM — Diccionario del Español de México
Free, CC for non-commercial use
Around 33,000 entries and over 75,000 definitions of the Spanish used in Mexico, with its own corpus. Complements the DLE for Mexican usage.
Transcription and subtitling
Free software for turning Chinese audio into text and building subtitle files.
Subtitle Edit
Free, MIT licence
Subtitle editor supporting over 300 formats, with Whisper integrated for automatic transcription followed by manual correction. Developed primarily for Windows.
Whisper
Free, MIT licence
Multilingual speech recognition with Chinese transcription. The turbo model does not perform translation; medium or large are required for that.
Language learning
Training and resources for study and for language maintenance.
Confucius Institute at UNAM
Paid courses
The Confucius Institute at UNAM, at Av. Nuevo León 167, Hipódromo Condesa, Mexico City. Mandarin courses by level, in person and online, with a placement test.
Lemma
MX$199 a month · US$9.99 outside Mexico
An AI Chinese coach built for Spanish and English speakers: a guided course from A1 to C2, syllable-by-syllable pronunciation scoring and a conversation partner that calibrates its replies to the user's level. The first lessons can be taken in the browser without creating an account.
Built by a member of the association.
Tatoeba
Free, CC BY 2.0 FR
Example sentences with aligned translations. It includes Chinese-Spanish pairs, limited in number and in a learner's register.
chino-china.com
Free
Online Chinese-Spanish dictionary searchable by character, pinyin or Spanish. Aimed at beginners.
Academic resources in Mexico
Institutions with open-access documentary collections on China and Asia.
CEAA — El Colegio de México
Free
Mexico's reference centre for Asian and African studies. The Daniel Cosío Villegas library holds an Asian-language collection open to the general public.
El Colegio de México repository
Free
Theses, books and journals in open download, with a substantial body of work on China and Asia.
UNAM-China
Free
UNAM's Beijing office publishes the bulletin En el Ombligo de la Luna and a guide to stays in China, both reproducible for non-profit use.
The profession
One international association and the three Mexican professional bodies.
AIIC
Directory and articles open access; the rest for members
The global association of conference interpreters: a public directory searchable by language — Spanish, Cantonese, Hakka and Min Nan among them — and its bulletin The Digest.
CMIC
Public site; paid membership
The Mexican College of Conference Interpreters, founded in 1982.
OMT
Public site; paid membership
The Mexican Translators Organization, a registered association founded in 1992. It runs activities through the year and an annual congress.
CMLTI
Public site; paid membership
The Mexican College of Licensed Translators and Interpreters, authorized since 2018 by Mexico's Ministry of Public Education through its Directorate-General of Professions. It keeps a directory of members and of court-registered expert translators.
Links last checked: 2 October 2026.