Articles on Hacking Chinese
I have written articles about how to learn Mandarin since 2010, and there are roughly 500 articles in total. This page is meant to help you find what you’re looking for!
- I want to check the most popular articles
- I’m a beginner and need guidance
- I need help with improving a certain skill
- I want to browse a list of all articles
- Show articles that have podcast episodes
- I have a question about learning Chinese
The most popular articles
10 best free reading resources for all levels- Learning the third tone in Mandarin
- The most common characters and words
- My best advice on how to learn characters
- Improve your pronunciation with tone pairs
Beginners should start here
The beginner page contains an introduction for beginners, as well as all articles relevant for beginners. Here are a few examples:
How to learn characters as a beginner- The best reading resources for beginners
- Learning pronunciation as a beginner
- The building blocks of Chinese
- How to reach a decent level in 100 days
I also have a course aimed specifically for you: Unlocking Chinese: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners. You might also want to check out my pronunciation course.
How to improve a specific skill
I have separate pages for listening, speaking, reading, writing and vocabulary learning (which includes characters). If you’re looking for help with a more specific topic, you can use the search function in the sidebar (bottom on mobile) or just search this page. Here’s the most important article from each category:
Why is listening in Chinese so hard?- Improve your fluency with word games
- Extensive reading for Chinese learners
- 20 tipsto improve your writing ability
- The building blocks of Chinese
There are also additional category pages you can check out here: study hacks, self-studying, classroom learning, immersion, mentality research, resources, and planning.
I also have a course focusing on levelling up the way you learn Chinese, aimed at all levels: Hacking Chinese: A Practical Guide to Learning Mandarin. You might also want to check out my pronunciation course.
All articles on Hacking Chinese
Here are all articles in reverse chronological order. The best way to find a certain article is to use the search function here on the website or in your browser.
- A guide to Pinyin traps and pitfalls: Learning Mandarin pronunciation
- Hacking Chinese Pronunciation: Speaking with Confidence is now open!
- Chinese listening challenge, January 2022
- How to improve fluency in Chinese by playing word games
- The building blocks of Chinese, part 6: Learning and remembering compound words
- The building blocks of Chinese, part 5: Making sense of Chinese words
- Why spaced repetition software is uniquely well suited to learning Chinese characters
- Chinese vocabulary challenge, December 2021
- Boost your learning with Hacking Chinese courses: Discounts available!
- The 7 best Chinese reading resources for beginners
- 6 challenges students face when learning to read Chinese and how to overcome them
- Should you enrol in a Chinese course or are you better off learning on your own?
- Chinese reading challenge, March 2022
- Why your Chinese isn’t as good as you think it ought to be
- The building blocks of Chinese, part 4: Learning and remembering compound characters
- The building blocks of Chinese, part 3: Compound characters
- Chinese translation challenge, October 2021
- Using voice messaging as a stepping stone to Chinese conversations
- A smart method to discover problems with Mandarin sounds and tones
- Back-to-school Hacking Chinese course discount 2021
- The building blocks of Chinese, part 2: Basic characters, components and radicals
- The building blocks of Chinese, part 1: Chinese characters and words in a nutshell
- Skritter review: Boosting your Chinese character learning (2021 edition)
- Chinese pronunciation challenge, August 2021
- Hacking Chinese Podcast one-year anniversary Q&A
- Chinese language logging, part 3: Tools and resources for keeping track of your learning
- Chinese language learning in the twenty-first century: Towards a digital ecosystem?
- The benefits of using Wikipedia to look up words when learning Chinese
- The new HSK 3.0 (2021): What you need to know
- Learning to understand regionally accented Mandarin
- The importance of tones is inversely proportional to the predictability of what you say
- Lost in transcription: Saylaw, Ice Island and Aristotle
- Chinese language logging, part 2: A healthy, balanced diet of Mandarin
- Chinese language logging, part 1: Why and how to track your progress
- What’s the difference between Chinese pronunciation and Pinyin? Does it matter?
- Learning the second tone in Mandarin Chinese
- Chinese input methods: A guide for second language learners
- Chinese speaking challenge, April 2022
- Opening the gates to the Hippo Campus*
- The 10 best free Chinese reading resources for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners
- 6 things in Chinese that are harder to learn than they seem
- Learning science in Chinese with 李永乐老师
- My best advice on how to learn Chinese characters
- 20 tips and tricks to improve your Chinese writing ability
- Chinese New Year and New Semester Course Discount
- Chinese writing challenge, February 2022
- Learning the third tone in Mandarin Chinese
- The most serious mistake students make when learning Mandarin pronunciation
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2020
- How to not fail with your New Year resolution to learn Chinese
- 7 things Chinese students should do during the winter vacation
- 9 answers to questions about Pinyin and pronunciation
- Are simplified characters really simpler to learn?
- An introduction to extensive reading for Chinese learners
- Celebrating 10 years of Hacking Chinese with reflections and discounts
- Tune in to the Hacking Chinese Podcast!
- Review: Learning Chinese by video immersion with FluentU (2020 edition)
- Why learning Chinese pronunciation by using English words is a really bad idea
- 7 mistakes I made when writing Chinese characters and what I learnt from them
- 7 ideas for smooth and effortless Chinese listening practice
- Should you learn the names of the strokes in Chinese characters?
- How to not teach Chinese characters to beginners: A 12-step approach
- Why not going to China now could actually be good for your Chinese
- The key to unlocking your first semester of Chinese
- Review: The Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese Characters
- All the resources you need to learn and teach Chinese stroke order
- Diversify how you study Chinese to learn more
- What important words are missing from TOCFL?
- What important words are missing from HSK?
- Improving your Chinese while watching TV shows
- Training your Chinese teacher, part 4: Writing ability
- Should you learn to speak Chinese before you learn Chinese characters?
- How to get honest feedback to boost your Chinese speaking and writing
- Are mnemonics too slow for Chinese learners?
- Learning Chinese words: When quantity beats quality
- When spaced repetition fails, and what to do about it
- Chinese is fascinating and exciting, not weird and stupid
- Dealing with Chinese characters you keep mixing up
- 文字冒险游戏及其在对外汉语教学中的应用
- Text adventure games and how to use them in the Chinese language classroom
- How to figure out how good your Chinese is
- The simple trick I used to double the amount of Chinese I listen to
- 5 levels of understanding Chinese characters: Superficial forms to deep structure
- The forking path: A human approach to learning Chinese
- Does using colour to represent Mandarin tones make them easier to learn?
- Course open for registration: Unlocking Chinese – The Ultimate Guide for Beginners
- How to get past the intermediate Chinese learning plateau
- How important is reading speed on tests like HSK and TOCFL?
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2019
- How to look up Chinese characters you don’t know
- Can too much guidance make you learn less Chinese?
- Why is listening in Chinese so hard?
- Chinese habit formation challenge, November 2019
- Training your Chinese teacher, part 3: Listening ability
- Two types of pronunciation problems and what to do about them
- New course: Unlocking Chinese – The Ultimate Guide for Beginners
- The nine principles of learning (and the mistakes from failing to follow them)
- Review: Mandarin Companion: Easy to read novels in Chinese
- 101 questions and answers about how to learn Chinese
- The most common Chinese words, characters and components for language learners and teachers
- 7 things you were taught in Chinese class that are actually wrong
- How good is voice recognition for learning Chinese pronunciation?
- The cheapest and most convenient way to improve your spoken Chinese
- Using speech recognition to improve Chinese pronunciation, part 1
- Training your Chinese teacher, part 2: Speaking ability
- The beginner’s guide to Chinese translation
- Tone errors in Mandarin that actually can cause misunderstandings
- Why using a good dictionary can be bad for your Chinese reading ability
- Free and easy audio flashcards for Chinese dictation practice with Anki
- Reading is a lot like spaced repetition, only better
- Training your Chinese teacher, part 1: Introduction
- Review: Language Empowerment: Demystify Chinese culture and fire up your Mandarin + interview with the author
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2018
- 36 samples of Chinese handwriting from students and native speakers
- Chinese handwriting challenge, November 2018
- How to improve your Chinese handwriting
- The Hacking Chinese guide to Mandarin tones
- Focusing on Mandarin tones without being distracted by Pinyin
- Cramming vs. spaced repetition: When to use which method to learn Chinese
- How and why to learn and teach Chinese through games
- Chinese learning challenges, July 2018: Listening + open
- 866 digital textbooks for expanding your Chinese
- New text game for Chinese learners: The Magistrate’s Gallery
- Learning Chinese as an introverted student
- Chinese New Year and New Semester Course Discount
- Learning to unicycle, learning anatomy and learning Chinese
- Whom should you trust for advice about learning Chinese?
- Will reading Hacking Chinese help you learn Mandarin?
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2017
- Can you learn Chinese faster by making it harder?
- Five text games for Chinese learners
- Should you focus on learning Chinese words or phrases?
- Vocabulary lists that help you learn Chinese and how to use them
- Should you learn Chinese vocabulary from lists?
- Chinese reading speed revisited
- Training and testing your ability to hear Mandarin sounds
- Is it necessary to learn the stroke order of Chinese characters?
- Get to know your own Chinese voice
- Advanced listening and reading with Skeptoid Chinese
- Hacking Chinese meet-up in Beijing, July 4th
- Task based Chinese learning and teaching
- Let’s play 迷霧中 (Into the Haze)
- How long do you have to study Chinese to make it useful?
- Learning (or not learning) Chinese slang
- Playing Codenames to learn Chinese
- What’s in a name? Hacking Chinese, 揭密中文
- Into the Haze: A new text adventure game for Chinese learners
- How narrow listening and reading can help you learn Chinese
- Comprehension-based listening vs deep end immersion
- 8 great ways to scaffold your Chinese learning
- Analysis paralysis: When choosing method becomes a problem
- How to become a Chinese-English translator and what it’s like to be one
- 10 ways of using games to learn and teach Chinese
- A student’s guide to comprehension-based learning
- How was your first semester of learning Chinese?
- The benefits of a comprehension-based approach for teaching and learning Chinese
- Introducing Chinese quiz tournaments on WordSwing
- An introduction to comprehension-based Chinese teaching and learning
- Chinese New Year and New Semester Course Discount
- How to fake sounding like a native Chinese speaker
- Spaced repetition is not limited to flashcards
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2016
- Looking up how to use words in Chinese the right way
- Why you should preview before every Chinese lesson
- Three factors that decide how much Chinese you learn
- Obligatory and optional tone change rules in Mandarin
- Learn Chinese implicitly through exposure with a seasoning of explicit instruction
- How I learnt Chinese, part 7: Teaching, writing, learning
- Mimicking native speakers as a way of learning Chinese
- 7 kinds of tone problems and what to do about them
- Chinese character challenge, October 10th to 31st
- Learning Chinese by playing board games
- Expanding your Chinese with 一步一个脚印
- Overcoming the problem of having too many Chinese words to learn
- Extra course content and new-semester discount
- Learning to read handwritten Chinese
- Transcribing Chinese audio as an active form of listening practice
- Escape: A text adventure game for Chinese learners
- Hacking Chinese on Patreon: Support me and get awesome rewards!
- How I learnt Chinese, part 6: Graduate program in Taiwan
- Are you practising Chinese the right way? Is your method valid?
- The benefits of using 语文/國文 textbooks to learn Chinese
- Hacking Chinese meet-ups in San Francisco (July 20th) and New York (July 24th)
- Accessing Chinese culture through cartoons
- How to talk about Chinese characters in Chinese
- How I learnt Chinese, part 5: Returning to Sweden
- Don’t forget to consolidate the Chinese you have already studied
- The best Twitter feeds for learning Chinese in 2016
- Chinese benchmarking challenge, June 10th to 30th
- How going shopping can help you learn Chinese
- How I learnt Chinese, part 4： My second year in Taiwan
- Why you should start blogging in Chinese today
- How technology can stop you from learning Chinese
- How technology can help you learn Chinese
- Which Chinese language course should you take?
- How I learnt Chinese, part 3: My first year in Taiwan
- Chinese reading challenge, November 10th to 30th
- I have published a book!
- Should you learn the pronunciation of radicals?
- Learning Chinese through comprehensible input
- ChinesePod review: Your companion to Mandarin fluency
- Chinese characters that share the same components but are still different
- What your Chinese course will not teach you
- Learn Chinese character meaning and pronunciation together
- How I learnt Chinese, part 2: Learning Mandarin in Sweden
- Listen before you read: Improve your listening ability
- Learn Chinese faster by leaving your comfort zone
- How I learnt Chinese, part 1: Where it all started
- Can you use English learning materials to study Chinese?
- Hacking Chinese New Year challenge, January 10th to 31st
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2015
- Learning tones in Mandarin is not optional
- Are there any shortcuts for learning Chinese?
- Launching Hacking Chinese: A Practical Guide to Learning Mandarin
- The Hacking Chinese tone training course
- Learning to hear the sounds and tones in Mandarin
- How to verify that you use the right Chinese font
- Chinese character variants and fonts for language learners
- One year of language challenges on Hacking Chinese
- Learning to pronounce Mandarin with Pinyin, Zhuyin and IPA: Part 3
- The real challenge with learning Chinese characters
- Improving pronunciation beyond the basics
- Which words you should learn and where to find them
- Can native speakers be wrong about Chinese grammar and pronunciation?
- Learning Chinese characters through pictures
- Panning: How to keep similar Chinese characters and words separate
- Zooming out: The resources you need to put Chinese in context
- Chinese character challenge, September 10th to 30th
- Zooming in: The tools you need to break down and understand Chinese
- Chinese learning tools and resources worth paying for
- The illusion of advanced learning and what to do about it
- Why you should read Chinese on your phone
- Learning to pronounce Mandarin with Pinyin, Zhuyin and IPA: Part 2
- Chinese listening practice with 锵锵三人行
- Learning to pronounce Mandarin with Pinyin, Zhuyin and IPA: Part 1
- Hacking Chinese meet-up in Beijing 2015-07-12
- Technical problems and theme issues
- Learning Chinese through audio books
- Hacking Chinese China Tour 2015
- Bite-sized learning isn’t enough to learn Chinese
- Why you should learn Chinese in Chinese
- Review: Mandarin Companion graded readers (Level 1)
- The best Twitter feeds for learning Chinese in 2015
- Hone your Chinese writing ability by writing summaries
- Learning Chinese by playing Mahjong 麻將 (májiàng)
- Will a Chinese-only rule improve your learning?
- Using Chinese textbooks to improve reading ability
- The new paperless revolution in Chinese reading
- Chinese Hackers Hack Hacking Chinese*
- A minimum-effort approach to writing Chinese characters by hand
- How to adjust your Chinese listening to the right level
- Three steps to more and better Chinese listening practice
- What you intend to write is more important than the character you actually write
- How learning some basic theory can improve your pronunciation
- 24 great resources for improving your Mandarin pronunciation
- Sensible character challenge, January 2015: Wrapping up
- Hacking Chinese 2014/2015: What was and what will be
- How to find a suitable Chinese name
- Focus on initials and finals, not Pinyin spelling
- Sensible character challenge, January 11th to 31st
- How knowing your best performance in Chinese can help you improve
- How translation to another language can help you learn Chinese
- Is Chinese difficult to learn?
- How to find the time and motivation to read more Chinese
- Learning how to ask for and receive directions in Chinese
- Why you should think of characters in terms of functional components
- The 10 best free listening resource collections for learning Chinese
- Launching Hacking Chinese Challenges
- Learning to write Chinese characters through communication
- Focusing on communication to learn Chinese
- Change your attitude to enjoy life and learn more Chinese
- 250+ resources for learning Chinese
- How long have you studied Chinese? 290 years or 58 992 hours!
- About cheating, spaced repetition and learning Chinese
- Study more Chinese: Time boxing vs. micro goals
- 7 ways of learning to write Chinese characters
- How long have you studied Chinese?
- Is speaking more important than listening when learning Chinese?
- Focusing on radicals, character components and building blocks
- Improve your pronunciation with the Hacking Chinese pronunciation check
- Language learning with a Chinese girlfriend or boyfriend
- A learner’s guide to TV shows in Chinese, part 2
- Sensible character learning challenge 2014: The Big Finish
- How to reach a decent level of Chinese in 100 days
- Hacking Chinese meet-up in Taipei 2014-06-28
- How and why to watch the world cup in Chinese
- Launching Hacking Chinese Resources
- A learner’s guide to TV shows in Chinese, part 1
- Sensible character learning challenge 2014: Milestone #3
- How and why to use television to learn Chinese
- How to find out how good your Chinese pronunciation really is
- The three roads to mastering Chinese
- How to Approach Chinese Grammar
- Sensible character learning challenge 2014: Milestone #2
- Handwriting Chinese characters: The minimum requirements
- Learn to read Chinese… with ease?
- The grand listening cycle: Improve your Chinese listening ability
- Three ways to improve the way you review Chinese characters
- Sensible character learning challenge 2014: Milestone #1
- Why good feedback matters and how to get it
- Improving Foreign Language Pronunciation: Interview with Hacking Chinese on Language is Culture
- Sensible Chinese character learning challenge 2014
- Sensible Chinese character learning revisited
- Hacking Chinese meet-up in Taipei 2014-03-22
- Asking the experts: How to learn Chinese grammar
- Flashcard overflow: About card models and review directions
- Learning how to fish: Or, why it’s essential to know how to learn
- Two reasons why pronunciation matters more than you think
- Habit hacking for language learners
- Hacking Chinese 2013/2014: What was and what will be
- Focusing on tone pairs to improve your Mandarin pronunciation
- Easing yourself into reading novels in Chinese
- A language learner’s guide to wuxia novels
- Wuxia, a key to Chinese language and culture
- 25 books I’ve read in Chinese, with reviews and difficulty ratings
- Chinese reading challenge: Read more or die
- Chinese immersion with Carl Gene Fordham
- Role-playing to learn more Chinese and avoid frustration
- Review: The Geography of Thought: How East Asians and Westerners Think Differently… And Why
- Learning to read aloud in Chinese
- How to learn Chinese characters as a beginner
- Improving your spoken and written Chinese by focusing on the process
- Asking the experts: How to bridge the gap to real Chinese
- How to improve your Chinese writing ability through focused reading
- Drills and exercises aren’t only for beginners
- Preparing for rainy days and dealing with slumps
- Your slumps affect your language learning more than your flows
- About fossilisation and improving your Chinese pronunciation
- What’s your next step to master Chinese?
- 5 websites to help answer your questions about Chinese
- Hacking Chinese meet-up in Taipei 2013-10-06
- Reading aloud in Chinese is really hard
- Phonetic components, part 2: Hacking Chinese characters
- Phonetic components, part 1: The key to 80% of all Chinese characters
- Why manually adding and editing flashcards is good for you
- Standard pronunciation in Chinese and why you want it
- Why you need goals to learn Chinese efficiently
- Do you really know how to count in Chinese?
- 5 insights from the first year of a master’s program in Taiwan
- How to get good grades when studying Chinese
- The get-back-up-to-speed summer challenge
- Role-playing as a way to expand your Chinese
- Hacking Chinese: Contradictory and provoking?
- Dealing with near-synonyms in Chinese as an independent learner
- Skritter review: Boosting your character learning (2013 edition)
- What research can and cannot tell us about learning Chinese
- If you think spaced repetition software is a panacea you are wrong
- Learning how to learn Chinese through self-experimentation
- Using Audacity to learn Chinese (speaking and listening)
- Adding tone marks (w/o Pinyin) above characters to practise tones
- Hacking Chinese meet-up in Taipei 2013-05-12
- You might be too lazy to learn Chinese, but you’re not too old
- Immersion at home or: Why you don’t have to go abroad to learn Chinese
- Learning the right chengyu the right way
- The question you have to ask about your Chinese teacher or course
- Want to master Chinese in no time? Start dreaming!*
- Is your flashcard deck too big for your own good?
- You shouldn’t walk the road to Chinese fluency alone
- 14 extra songs to learn Chinese and expand your horizons
- Hacking Chinese site update March 2013
- 21 essential dictionaries and corpora for learning Chinese
- Horizontal vocabulary learning in Chinese
- Hacking Chinese meet-up in Taipei 2013-03-02
- The Cthulhu bubble and studying Chinese
- Improving your Chinese by translating from another language
- Hacking Chinese 2012/2013: What was and what will be
- Don’t use mnemonics for everything
- How to create mnemonics for general or abstract character components
- Sensible character learning: Progress, reminders and reflections
- Remembering is a skill you can learn
- Towards a more sensible way of learning to write Chinese
- You can’t learn Chinese characters by rote
- Why you really should use a Chinese notebook
- Measuring your language learning is a double-edged sword
- Have fun learning Chinese or else…
- RTI, my favourite radio station
- 13 more songs to learn Chinese and expand your horizons
- Is it necessary to learn to write Chinese characters by hand?
- Learning Chinese in the shower with me
- Chat your way to better Chinese
- Learning styles: Use with caution!
- Vocalise more to learn more Chinese
- Don’t just read about language learning methods, try them!
- 12 songs to learn Chinese and expand your horizons
- Learning Chinese with StarCraft 2
- Extending mnemonics: Tones and pronunciation
- The time barrel: How to find more time to study Chinese
- Kickstart your Chinese character learning with the 100 most common radicals
- Study according to your current productivity level
- Why learning Chinese through music is underrated
- Website restructuring completed
- Chinese listening strategies: Diversify your listening practice
- 31 Twitter feeds to help you learn Chinese
- A language learner’s guide to reading comics in Chinese
- Approaches to reading in Chinese
- Recording yourself to improve your Chinese speaking ability
- Chinese Language Learner Interview Series – Olle Linge
- Chinese listening strategies: Deliberate practice and i+2
- Chinese listening strategies: Improving listening speed
- Language is communication, not only an abstract subject to study
- Chinese listening strategies: Active listening
- Using Lang-8 to improve your Chinese
- Playing computer games in Chinese: Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2
- Chinese listening strategies: Passive listening
- Practising sports to learn Chinese and make friends
- Chinese listening strategies: Background listening
- Chinese listening strategies: Problem analysis
- Chinese listening strategies: An introduction
- Don’t try to improve everything at once, limit your focus
- Review: The Phonology of Standard Chinese
- Chinese language question triage: General guidelines
- Answer buttons and how to use SRS to study Chinese
- Defining Language Hacking: Lessons Learned From Hacking Chinese
- The importance of counting what counts when learning Chinese
- Hacking Chinese back again after server crash
- The 10,000 hour rule – Blood, sweat and tears
- Use the benefits of teaching to boost your own Chinese learning
- When perfectionism becomes an obstacle to progress
- Making progress in Chinese in spite of praise
- Learning simplified and traditional Chinese
- Learning Chinese efficiently vs. learning quickly
- Learn by exaggerating: Slow, then fast; big, then small
- Can you become fluent in Chinese in three months?
- Hacking Chinese 2011/2012: What was and what will be
- If you want to master Chinese, make long-term investments
- Chinese reading speed: Learning how to read ten lines at a glance
- Mapping the terra incognita of Chinese vocabulary
- The tones in Mandarin are more important than you think
- Reading manga in Chinese for more than just pleasure
- Triggering quantum leaps in Chinese listening ability
- About opening doors and the paths beyond
- Time boxing Chinese: Get more done in less time
- The Chinese-Chinese dictionary survival guide
- Enjoying the journey while focusing on the destination
- Benchmarking progress in Chinese to stay motivated
- Is taking a Chinese course that’s too hard good for your learning?
- Learning Chinese the holistic way: Integrating knowledge
- Achieving the impossible by being inspired
- Don’t be a tourist if you want to learn Chinese language and culture
- How to find more time to practise Chinese listening
- Growing up in Chinese as a foreign adult
- Different types of mistakes when learning Chinese: Problem analysis
- Using memory aids and mnemonics to make Chinese easier
- Chinese vocabulary in your pocket
- Improve your conversations by listening to the listener
- Dealing with tricky vocabulary: Killing leeches
- Time quality: Studying the right thing at the right time
- Memorising dictionaries to boost Chinese reading ability
- Escaping the convenience trap to learn more Chinese
- Review: Chinese Synonyms Usage Dictionary
- Spaced repetition isn’t rote learning
- You won’t learn Chinese simply by living abroad
- Goals and motivation for learning Chinese, part 4 – Micro goals
- Goals and motivation for learning Chinese, part 3 – Short-term goals
- Goals and motivation for learning Chinese, part 2 – Long-term goals
- Goals and motivation for learning Chinese, part 1 – Introduction
- Why you should use more than one Chinese textbook
- What native speakers know and what they don’t
- Using search engines to study Chinese
- Learning Chinese pronunciation as a beginner
- Anki, the best of spaced repetition software
- Take responsibility for your language learning now
- Pros and cons with travelling to learn a language
- Chinese listening ability, a matter of practice?
- Spaced repetition software and why you should use it
- The virtues of learning Chinese through language exchange
- Learning Chinese through social media
- Making mistakes in Chinese is necessary to adjust your mental models
- Learning Chinese is easier than you think
- A pre-launch plea for help
- Requirements to be met before site launch
- Domain name registered, software installed