Category: Chinese

Having a tutor can be great for learning Chinese, but how much progress you make depends as much on you as on the tutor. Come prepared, stay...

From 李纯博’s 雨天. For people who are learning languages other than Chinese, the question of how to improve handwriting doesn’t come up often. Some...

Image source: pixabay.com/en/users/PublicDomainPictures/ Improving writing beyond your speaking ability requires two things: exposure to written...

Improving speaking ability is probably the main reason students of Chinese enlist the help of a teacher. This does not mean that finding a good...

I’ve been teaching beginner courses in Chinese for more than ten years, but I still remember what it was like to write my first characters. When...

While strong motivation doesn’t necessarily accelerate your learning or improve your memory, without it you won’t spend enough time learning...

As Infants, we don’t yet rely on categories to make sense of the world; everything is a glorious mess. When we engage with our first language, we...

In last week’s article, we saw that learning Chinese characters is not enough, you also have to learn words. Most words contain two characters, or...

Many people believe that learning a new script is challenging, but mastering systems like Zhuyin (Bopomofo) or Japanese kana is surprisingly easy....

As soon as students realise that Chinese script is not an alphabet, and that there are thousands of characters they need to learn to become...