Category: Chinese

As an independent learner of Chinese, you need to keep three questions in mind: what to learn, how to learn it and how much time to spend on each...

The best way of handling most things you don’t agree with on the internet is to simply ignore them, an approach that is much healthier than giving...

Source: [email protected] Many years ago, I practised taichichuan/taijiquan (太極拳) daily, but even if I’ve since found other physical activities I...

It becomes increasingly common to argue that it’s okay that the knowledge of written Chinese lags behind that of spoken Chinese for beginners. This...

Introverts learning Chinese dismay when we hear advice about speaking from day one, preferably with any and all Chinese people you encounter. Great...

  Why learn Chinese by playing Mahjong (麻将, májiàng)? Because it’s both fun and effective! One of the most important pieces of advice I give...

  Why learn Chinese by playing Mahjong (麻将, májiàng)? Because it’s both fun and effective! One of the most important pieces of advice I give...

If you think this is a good way of learning characters, you should definitely read this article. When starting to learn Chinese characters,...

In the previous article in this series about the building blocks of Chinese, we looked at basic characters and how to learn them. We saw that most...

There are two ways you can get Chinese into your brain: through your ears by listening and through your eyes by reading. You can only say and...