Year: 2026

Reviewing is an integral part of learning Chinese, and students who don’t do it will forget most of what they have learned. Most students know...

Do you want to learn Chinese but don’t know where to start? Have you already started learning, but feel lost? Are you worried you can’t learn...

Unlock social interactions and cultural understanding, connect with people and accelerate your learning with my new course, The Fluent Listener:...

A poll I did a while ago showed that listening ability was the skill most learners struggled with. This is not obvious looking at Mandarin from the...

To learn Chinese, you need to immerse yourself in the language. This can be done wherever you are and from day one. Yet many beginner lessons in...

When I started learning Chinese, I understood early on that listening ability required more practice than my courses offered. A lot more. This is...

It’s time for a Chinese writing challenge! This is a great opportunity if you want to improve your written Chinese. If you’re like most of us, you...

Hacking Chinese Challenges is about building language skills through daily practice and friendly competition. By focusing on one specific area of...

In this modern and enlightened age of communicative language teaching and comprehensible input, translation is not often advocated as the key to...

Subtitles and transcripts can help you understand spoken Chinese, but do they also help you become a better listener? Should you read along, read...