Category: Chinese

This is the first guest article by Luke Howard, whom I met on one of the Hacking Chinese meet-ups here in Taipei. He speaks Chinese well and when he...

When learning to write Chinese characters, we need to remember that what we have in mind and what we actually write aren’t necessarily the same...

Something that have made me very frustrated throughout my Chinese language studies is the way my own Chinese ability has been evaluated by teachers...

Measuring language ability is notoriously difficult, but can be important. It’s difficult because it’s hard to nail down what “language ability” is...

I often receive questions from readers about my personal journey. Why did I start learning Chinese? What phases did I go through and what did I...

It’s time to continue the story of how I learnt Chinese. Last time, I talked briefly about why I started learning, and in this second part I want to...

I started studying Chinese in Sweden in 2007 and have been learning ever since: online and offline, at home and abroad, in formal courses and on my...

I remember the first time I took an advanced proficiency test in Chinese. I remember sitting down with the reading part of the exam, starting to...

Ideally, all students would acquire perfect pronunciation in Chinese by listening to and mimicking. Sadly, this is only guaranteed to work for...

A few weeks ago, I posted an article about study time and why it should be counted in hours and not the more commonly used unit: years. I received...