Month: February 2026

The most common question I receive about learning Chinese is how difficult the language is. Most people assume that it’s hard, but they want to...

This is the first scene in the adventure text game Escape. The characters marked with red make up 5% of the text. Part of the goal with this game is...

The more I teach and learn Chinese, the more convinced I become that mainstream classroom teaching focuses too much on low-volume, high-difficulty...

Playing games, especially with other people in a situation of friendly competition, is a great way of boosting motivation. I’ve wanted to find a...

If I wrote a comprehensive guide to learning Chinese with a special focus on vocabulary, what would it look like? Now you can find out for free!...

Sara Jaaksola is from Finland, but have been living in Guangzhou, China since 2010. She originally went there to learn Chinese but ended up doing a...

I just returned from a three-week trip to China after not having set foot in the country since before the pandemic. As...

I’m sure many readers are familiar with the term process writing, because it’s used by many teachers when teaching native speakers and second...

Watching TV is a great way to learn languages. It combines lots of useful Chinese words and phrases while providing rich context because of the...

A few weeks ago, David Mansaray over at Language is Culture asked me if I was interested in appearing in his new interview series focusing on...