Month: February 2026

Want to improve the way you learn characters? Want to feel the power of learning with others? It’s time for. …the 2014 sensible Chinese character...

Two weeks have now passed since I announced the sensible character learning challenge. Since I wanted to try the rules of the challenge myself...

When I launched this year’s sensible character challenge, some people told me that I was over-ambitious, I would never be able to keep people...

One of the most powerful ways of staying motivated is doing things with others, preferably during a limited amount of time with a clear goal. That...

This post marks the second milestone in the sensible character learning challenge 2014, which means that we are roughly halfway! Just like last...

We have now reached the first milestone in the sensible character learning challenge 2014! What does this mean? That depends on whether or not...

Last month’s challenge on Hacking Chinese Challenges was about sensible character learning, an area I had neglected for months. It was meant as an...

The first challenge I ran on Hacking Chinese was the sensible character challenge that started more than two years ago (Towards a more sensible way...

As soon as my Chinese level was good enough to understand normal, spoken Chinese, I started listening to native radio stations. At that time, I was...

Image credit: flickr.com/photos/ardenswayoflife/ I have had my fair share of Chinese language courses, even though it’s also true that most of my...