studywithasilbek

Credits and licences

Last updated: 10 November 2026

Who made what, and the licences for everything that isn't mine.

The course

The textbook

The course follows the lesson order of 《新HSK教程 3》 New HSK Course 3 (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing, 2026). Page references are to that edition. I'm not connected with the publisher, and the book's texts are not reproduced here.

Voices

All audio is text-to-speech made with AI voices (Narakeet). No voice actors or native-speaker recordings are used.

Photos

Stock photos from Pexels, used under the Pexels licence. The people in the photos are models. They have no connection with this course or with the characters in its story, and they don't endorse it.

Background sounds and music

Recordings from Pixabay, used under the Pixabay Content License, cut, filtered and mixed under the dialogues. Music on the taxi radio in Lesson 6: "The Chinese Modern" by FreddyMusic2 (Pixabay).

Stroke-order data

From Make Me a Hanzi, © 1999 Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. and © 2016 Shaunak Kishore, based on the fonts Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai (© 1999 Arphic Technology Co., Ltd.), through hanzi-writer-data 2.0.1. Used and redistributed under the Arphic Public License. Each writing page contains only the characters of its lesson; the data is otherwise unchanged, and you may reuse it under the same licence.

Software

Hanzi Writer 3.7.3 by David Chanin, under the MIT License. ts-fsrs 6.0.0 by Open Spaced Repetition, under the MIT License (notice in the file).

Fonts

Instrument Sans, Geist Mono, Noto Sans SC and Noto Serif SC, under the SIL Open Font License, served from this site. Licence files: Instrument Sans, Geist Mono, Noto Sans SC, Noto Serif SC.

Videos

The grammar parts link to free videos on YouTube. They belong to their makers, who are not connected with this course.

Something credited wrongly, or yours and used by mistake? Write to asilbek@studywithasilbek.com and I'll fix it or remove it quickly.