Month: February 2026

There is a lot of talk about the f-word in the online world of language learning. What does it mean to be fluent? What is the best way to...

Listening ability is probably the hardest skill for learners of Chinese. You eventually get the hang of learning characters and even pronouncing...

When talking about learning Chinese characters with people who haven’t learnt Chinese yet, there are two kinds of reactions. Is it hard to learn...

Some students ask many questions, but fail to ask the really crucial ones. Some students don’t ask at all, but might be considering these questions...

I first met Scott Young in 2014 in Taiwan when he was doing his year without English, spending 100 days learning Chinese. I gave him some advice...

This is a guest article by David Moser about the incredible changes the digital age has brought to learners of Chinese all over the world. David...

As many of you already know, changes are coming to the HSK (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì, 汉语水平考试), the most widely used proficiency test for Mandarin...

When we are born, our brains are open to the world of sound and we can perceive differences between sounds we as adults have learnt to ignore. To be...

How much Chinese you learn depends on three things: how you study (method), how much you study (time) and what you study (content). If you want to...

No, this is not related to anything written by Jorge Luis Borges, but it is related to both dictionaries and labyrinths anyhow. Although there are...