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Best of Hacking Chinese 2025
2025 has come to an end. Which were the most popular articles on Hacking Chinese last year? What were the most popular podcast episodes? It’s time...
The best Twitter feeds for learning Chinese in 2016
Learning Chinese can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re faced with the infamous Great Wall of Chinese (text). One way of making it easier is...
Beyond tīng bu dǒng, part 1: A guide to Chinese listening comprehension
Understanding spoken Chinese is challenging form most learners. There are many reasons for this, some general to listening comprehension in a...
7 ways to write Mandarin tones
The sounds of Mandarin and the symbols we use to write them down are two different things. We can see this reflected in the different systems used...
8 great ways to scaffold your Chinese listening and reading
Listening and reading in Chinese can be a challenge, especially when your level is not high enough. To understand more and thereby also learn more,...
866 digital textbooks for expanding your Chinese
For the last four years, I’ve been teaching various Chinese courses for engineers. These courses are meant to take students from not knowing any...
9 answers to questions about Pinyin and pronunciation
There are several ways of finding answers to questions about learning Chinese. Some of them promote discussion, others are more strictly trying to...
A guide to Pinyin traps and pitfalls: Learning Mandarin pronunciation
Learning to pronounce Mandarin Chinese properly comes with a number of challenges. Some of these are relevant for learning any foreign language,...
A language learner’s guide to reading comics in Chinese
This is a guest post about reading comics in Chinese, written by Sara K. It was written as a natural follow-up to her previous article, but instead...