The first step of a journey of a thousand miles is important. If your first experience with a new language is engaging, entertaining and...
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Review: Mandarin Companion: Easy to read novels in Chinese | Hacking Chinese
Review: Mandarin Companion graded readers (Level 1)
Input is extremely important when learning a language. Without having heard something, how are you supposed to be able to say it? Without having...
Review: The Geography of Thought: How East Asians and Westerners Think Differently… And Why
Do the Chinese think differently than we do? Are cultural differences only something superficial or are there deeper, more fundamental differences...
Review: The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Chinese characters are both loved and dreaded at the same time. Some people start learning Chinese mostly because of the beautiful characters, but...
Review: The Phonology of Standard Chinese
Title in English: The Phonology of Standard Chinese Author: Duanmu, San (端木三) Year: 2007 Pages: 361 Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN:...
Role-playing as a way to expand your Chinese
Role-playing is a word which is used quite often in textbooks and education literature. However, I have played tabletop role-playing games since I...
Role-playing to learn more Chinese and avoid frustration
Image credit: flickr.com/photos/ardenswayoflife/ I have had my fair share of Chinese language courses, even though it’s also true that most of my...
RTI, my favourite radio station
As soon as my Chinese level was good enough to understand normal, spoken Chinese, I started listening to native radio stations. At that time, I was...
Sensible character challenge, January 11th to 31st
The first challenge I ran on Hacking Chinese was the sensible character challenge that started more than two years ago (Towards a more sensible way...