This page contains a list of all articles in Hacking Chinese: the Dragon Collection for ease of reference, clickable links and access to podcast episodes.
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2024
- 8 great ways to scaffold your Chinese listening and reading
- Listen more and learn more by building a personal Chinese audio library
- The Hacking Chinese guide to Mandarin tones
- Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass review: Understand more, learn faster, remember longer
- How to learn Chinese in the long term with intrinsic motivation
- Real communication: What it is, why you want it and how to get it
- The best podcasts for learning Chinese
- Is speaking more important than listening when learning Chinese?
- Chengyu, a magic key to Chinese language and culture, or a waste of time?
- Beyond tīng bu dǒng, part 6: Why is listening in Chinese so hard?
- 24 great resources for improving your Mandarin pronunciation
- Learning to hear the sounds and tones in Mandarin
- Should you learn the pronunciation of radicals?
- Habit hacking for language learners
- The three factors that determine how much Chinese you learn
- How I used a notebook to learn more Chinese, and why you should too
- Why you should preview before every Chinese lesson
- Chinese character variants and font differences for language learners
- Insights from my recent trip to China: The importance of top-down listening
- The 10 best free Chinese listening resources for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners
- Three things I wish I had known as a beginner student of Chinese: The time machine, part 1
- YouGlish: A free service to hear and see Chinese words in context
- Three things I wish I had known as an intermediate student of Chinese: The time machine, part 2
- How to use YouTube and other video platforms to learn Chinese
- Don’t learn Mandarin pronunciation by reading, listen and mimic instead
- Three things I wish I had known as an advanced student of Chinese: The time machine, part 3
- Do you really know how to count in Chinese?
- How to learn Zhuyin (Bopomofo) in two hours
- Four key principles to improve your Mandarin listening comprehension
- Which Chinese learning resources are worth paying for?
- Can English learning materials help you learn Chinese?
- Benchmarking progress in Chinese to stay motivated
- Don’t use mnemonics for everything when learning Chinese
- What native speakers know about Chinese (and what they don’t)