Month: February 2026

Roughly a year ago, I launched a new subsection of this website, called Hacking Chinese Challenges. In this article, I’d like to both evaluate the...

This text contains twelve errors. Do you find it hard to read? Can you find all the errors? The goal of studying foreign languages used to be...

Reading is one of the best ways to develop vocabulary and grammar. Unfortunately, this comes with two problems for learners of Chinese. First, the...

New course: Unlocking Chinese - The Ultimate Guide for Beginners | Hacking Chinese

Varying your diet of Chinese reading and listening practice is often considered good, indeed necessary, for your learning, but this could be wrong....

Believing the wrong things about learning Chinese can waste time and lead you astray. Let’s explore sixteen myths that might be holding you back!...

Learning Chinese characters is not easy, but it is certainly possible. With the right method, anyone can become literate in Chinese, it just...

Mimicking native speakers is the single most powerful way of improving your pronunciation in Mandarin and other languages. By listening attentively...

In other articles on Hacking Chinese, I discuss how you can learn characters, words or grammar patterns more efficiently. Since all these articles...

I’ve heard many stories about people in East Asia who try to learn English by memorising dictionaries. Even if it’s true that some people actually...