Month: February 2026

This year is drawing to a close and it’s time to conclude 2016 with an overview of the best articles published on Hacking Chinese this year. I often...

Learning to read Chinese is not a walk in the park. In fact, several factors make learning to read Chinese considerably harder than other...

Image credit: sxc.hu/profile/Daino_16 Becoming fluent in any language is a dream many people have, but few achieve. Accomplishing this in only...

Textbooks are great for learning languages, including Chinese, but it’s important to diversify your reading. If you only read your textbook, you’re...

Textbooks are great for learning languages, including Chinese, but it’s important to diversify your reading. If you only read your textbook, you’re...

This is the second post in a series of three focusing on comprehension-based Chinese learning and teaching, written by Diane Neubauer. Please read...

When we begin learning Chinese, everything feels new and exciting. Every word we learn opens new doors and moves us forward, and when we listen and...

Learning to understand spoken Chinese is both hard and easy at the same time. It’s hard because it takes time, but it’s also easy because the...

We all learn Chinese for different reasons, but if you learn the language to an advanced level, it makes sense to also make it at least part of your...

For most students, a new semester has just started or is about to begin, and for the rest of us, August is as good a time as any to focus on the...