This week marks the third anniversary of the Hacking Chinese Podcast! That menas one article and podcast episode every week for 156 weeks, without interruption. You can view a list of all episodes here:
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In this week’s anniversary episode, I answer three listener questions:
- Should you drop everything you’re doing to study Chinese abroad for one year?
- What to do if you can’t find the right approach and spend all your time trying to find it?
- How should you approach native reading content as an intermediate learner?
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Here are links to things mentioned in this episode:
Question 1:
- Why not going to China now could actually be good for your Chinese
- You won’t learn Chinese simply by living abroad
- Immersion at home or: Why you don’t have to go abroad to learn Chinese
Question 2:
- Review: The Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese Characters
- Efficiency on xkcd
- When perfectionism becomes an obstacle to progress
Question 3:
- An introduction to extensive reading for Chinese learners
- How narrow reading and listening can help you bridge the gap to real Chinese
- Five text games for Chinese learners
- Easing yourself into reading novels in Chinese
- 25 books I’ve read in Chinese, with reviews and difficulty ratings
- Are authentic texts good for learning Chinese or is graded content better?
If you have a question you’d like to ask me, feel free to contact me. You might also be interested in my big article with 101 frequently asked questions, where I try to give concise answers to the most common questions:
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