Articles in the ‘About Hacking Chinese’ category Page 6
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How I learnt Chinese, part 2: Learning Mandarin in Sweden
My first year of learning Chinese was spent in an intensive but conventional university environment in Sweden. While I learnt a lot, many things were also left out!
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How I learnt Chinese, part 1: Where it all started
This is the first part in a series of articles about how I learnt Chinese. It covers the very beginning, why I became interested in learning Chinese and how that transformed into an opportunity to actually learn.
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Hacking Chinese New Year challenge, January 10th to 31st
It’s time for the first Hacking Chinese challenge in 2016! The focus of the challenge is up to you to decide: choose between clearing unfinished projects from last year or establishing good learning habits for the rest of 2016. The challenge starts on January 10th.
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Best of Hacking Chinese 2015
Over 70 articles were published on Hacking Chinese in 2015, but which were the most popular? What about the most important? In this article, I list the top ten articles from 2015, both by reader count and by editor’s (my) choice.
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Launching Hacking Chinese: A Practical Guide to Learning Mandarin
I’m proud to announce the launch of a new course: Hacking Chinese: A Practical Guide to Learning Mandarin. It’s the result of thousands of hours of work and just like the Hacking Chinese website, it is about how to learn Chinese in a better way. The course consists of video episodes, an in-depth e-book and an audio version. Get it before Christmas for a handsome discount!
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One year of language challenges on Hacking Chinese
Hacking Chinese Challenges has now been online for more than a year and it’s time to take a step back to evaluate the service. Have you tried it out yet? What did you think? This article contains a short survey as well as some of my own reflections about the past and future of language challenges.
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Chinese character challenge, September 10th to 30th
Let’s learn characters together! If you need to expand your knowledge of characters, fight you ever-increasing review queue or just learn more of them, this challenge is for you. Enrol, set a goal and learn as much as you can before the end of the month! Active participants can win prizes from Skritter.
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Hacking Chinese meet-up in Beijing 2015-07-12
It’s time for the first Hacking Chinese meet-up in Beijing! I have arranged many meet-ups in Taipei since I lived there for many years, but this is the first time I arrange a meet-up in Mainland China. The meet-up will take place this Sunday in Beijing. The main purpose of the meet-up is to meet […]
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Technical problems and theme issues
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 way it used to and not everything is working properly. This is because of some technical problems I haven’t been able to solve completely yet. Unfortunately, […]
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Hacking Chinese China Tour 2015
I’m going to China and would like to take the opportunity to arrange a few meet-ups. The information here is all subject to change, but I should be able to arrange one meet-up in later in June, one in Kunming in July and possibly a second meet-up in Beijing in July. If you’re interested in participating, make sure you contact me!
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