Category: Chinese

Image credit: John Kennicutt Drills and exercises are intimately connected to what most people associate with studying a language (rather than...

I don’t know about you, but I know started reading novels in Chinese way too late. This was partly because I thought it was scary and more difficult...

Many articles I write come across as quite ambitious and not a little solemn. Reading articles such as Is taking a Chinese course that’s too hard...

I love games and storytelling, so it’s only natural that I’ve played role-playing games since I was ten or so. Since I started leaning Chinese, I...

One of the most common questions about learning Chinese characters is if it’s really necessary to learn correct stroke order. The answer I give,...

The number of blogs introducing different parts of Chinese have exploded in recent years. Apart from companies involved in language education who...

The number of blogs introducing different parts of Chinese have exploded in recent years. Apart from companies involved in language education who...

Memory is a skill that can be practised, learnt, and mastered. By using the right method, remembering even abstract things like tones and...

For many of us, a new semester has just started or is about to start very soon. Since late last year, I offer a video, audio and text course...

Ever wanted to sound more like a native speaker, but don’t have ten thousand hours to spend? In this guest article, David Moser shows how to...