This page contains a list of all articles in Hacking Chinese: The Snake Collection for ease of reference, clickable links and access to podcast episodes.
- Best of Hacking Chinese 2025
- The three roads to mastering Chinese
- The Input Pyramid: Chinese Listening for Any Situation
- Love and language: Challenges and opportunities in learning Chinese with a partner
- Learning Chinese by playing board games
- The best YouTube channels for learning Chinese in 2025
- Cramming vs. spaced repetition: When to use which method to learn Chinese
- Don’t be a tourist if you want to learn Chinese
- How to use mnemonics to learn Mandarin tones and pronunciation
- The 10 best free Chinese reading resources for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners
- Why using a good dictionary can be bad for your Chinese reading ability
- 7 kinds of tone problems in Mandarin and what to do about them
- Zi.Tools: A powerful free resource for exploring Chinese characters
- Will Hacking Chinese help you learn Mandarin?
- Beyond tīng bu dǒng, part 7: How to navigate different types of listening in Mandarin
- How to get the most out of your Chinese tutoring sessions
- 7 characteristics of a great Chinese tutor or private teacher
- How to find the perfect Mandarin tutor for you: A complete guide
- Using AI chatbots for low-stress Mandarin speaking practice
- 16 reasons to learn to write Chinese characters by hand
- Classroom Mandarin: Essential expressions for learning Chinese in Chinese
- Learning Chinese through comprehensible input
- How to improve your Mandarin speaking skills with a tutor
- 16 myths about learning Chinese that are holding you back
- Same building blocks, different characters: How component placement changes meaning in Chinese
- 7 ways to learn to write Chinese characters
- Learning (or not learning) Chinese slang
- What a big Rubik’s Cube taught me about Chinese characters
- How to talk about Chinese characters in Chinese
- Cultivate your Chinese flashcard garden… or burn it down and start afresh
- A minimum-effort approach to writing Chinese characters by hand
- Chinese characters and words that refuse to stick: Killing leeches
- Reading is a lot like spaced repetition, only better