Hacking Chinese Podcast three-year anniversary Q&A

This week marks the third anniversary of the Hacking Chinese Podcast! That menas one article and podcast episode every week for 156 weeks, without interruption. You can view a list of all episodes here:

Hacking Chinese Podcast

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In this week’s anniversary episode, I answer three listener questions:

• Should you drop everything you’re doing to study Chinese abroad for one year?
• What to do if you can’t find the right approach and spend all your time trying to find it?
• How should you approach native reading content as an intermediate learner?

Tune in to the Hacking Chinese Podcast to listen to the related episode:

Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Overcast, Spotify, YouTube and many other platforms!

Here are links to things mentioned in this episode:

• Courses on Hacking Chinese
• Support Hacking Chinese on Patreon

Question 1:

• Why not going to China now could actually be good for your Chinese
• You won’t learn Chinese simply by living abroad
• Immersion at home or: Why you don’t have to go abroad to learn Chinese

Question 2:

• Review: The Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese Characters
• Efficiency on xkcd
• When perfectionism becomes an obstacle to progress

Question 3:

• An introduction to extensive reading for Chinese learners
• How narrow reading and listening can help you bridge the gap to real Chinese
• Five text games for Chinese learners
• Easing yourself into reading novels in Chinese
• 25 books I’ve read in Chinese, with reviews and difficulty ratings
• Are authentic texts good for learning Chinese or is graded content better?

If you have a question you’d like to ask me, feel free to contact me. You might also be interested in my big article with 101 frequently asked questions, where I try to give concise answers to the most common questions:

101 questions and answers about how to learn Chinese

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