Year: 2026

Learning a language takes a lot of time, but fortunately, you can do most of the truly time-consuming parts on your own. For example, learning to...

Learning Chinese can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re faced with the infamous Great Wall of Chinese (text). One way of making it easier is...

The traditional (or fraud-proof) character for 10,000. Is mastering a subject mainly about innate gifts or about hard work? If it is about hard...

In this article, I will share the best free Chinese listening resources for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. I have spent years...

Learning Chinese is not what it used to be. On the whole, this is a good thing, because learning used to be more difficult, expensive and...

Technology has an overall positive effect on learning Chinese and makes it easier. In last week’s article, I wrote about these benefits, including...

As you might have noticed, Hacking Chinese has been down for a few days earlier this week, and even if it’s up and running now, it doesn’t look the...

Task-based Chinese learning and teaching | Hacking Chinese

How do native speakers talk about Chinese characters? The writing system is not phonetic, so you can’t spell out words, but it is still possible to...

Taking responsibility for your own learning seems like an obvious thing to do. While not all students would claim that they do it, I think all would...