Role-playing is a word which is used quite often in textbooks and education literature. However, I have played tabletop role-playing games since I...
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Review: The Phonology of Standard Chinese
Title in English: The Phonology of Standard Chinese Author: Duanmu, San (端木三) Year: 2007 Pages: 361 Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN:...
Review: The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Chinese characters are both loved and dreaded at the same time. Some people start learning Chinese mostly because of the beautiful characters, but...
Review: The Geography of Thought: How East Asians and Westerners Think Differently… And Why
Do the Chinese think differently than we do? Are cultural differences only something superficial or are there deeper, more fundamental differences...
Review: Mandarin Companion graded readers (Level 1)
Input is extremely important when learning a language. Without having heard something, how are you supposed to be able to say it? Without having...
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Review: Language Empowerment: Demystify Chinese culture and fire up your Mandarin + interview with the author
The first step of a journey of a thousand miles is important. If your first experience with a new language is engaging, entertaining and...
Review: Learning Chinese by video immersion with FluentU
When starting to learn Chinese, most students are driven by a strong motivation to learn. But it is with language learning as it is with most...
Review: Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary
Title in English: Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary Title in Chinese: 漢語近義詞用法詞典 Author: Teng Shou-hsin (鄧守信) Year: 2009 Pages: 533...
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Even though the site is available from now on, there are a few things I want to accomplish before launching the site officially. If you feel...