Year: 2026

There are three ways to improve how you learn Chinese. First, you can upgrade your method to become more efficient. Second, you can make sure you...

Looked at the wrong way, Chinese is a subject to study or an activity schedule like any other. Looked at the right way, learning Chinese seeps into...

Looking back at my Chinese-learning journey, it’s easy to in hindsight identify things I could have done better. I now have fifteen years of...

Reaching an advanced level of Chinese is a significant achievement, akin to completing a university degree in terms of time and effort invested....

I first launched Hacking Chinese to answer the question of how I could have learnt in a better way, hence the current tagline “A Better Way of...

Image credit: Tony Clough If you look at what methods work well for learning Chinese (or any other language), you will see the word “immersion”...

When learning Chinese, three factors determine your progress: the content you study, the methods you use, and the time you dedicate. To achieve...

A language exchange is simply two people who want to learn each others’ languages. Sometimes, people say that it’s more a matter of body language...

Last week, I wrote an article about how to learn to hear the tones in Mandarin. In my opinion, that’s a very important question. The most obvious...

The time barrel was first mentioned in an article I wrote about background listening a while back. I needed a metaphor to explain how it was...