Hacking Chinese

A better way of learning Mandarin

Articles tagged with ‘Cheating’

  1. Can ChatGPT pass the HSK?

    Robot reading. Created with Stable Diffusion and some GIMP editing for the book cover.

    ChatGPT has been all over the news for its remarkable ability to interact in a human-like manner, understand questions and respond in a meaningful way. It has even been used to pass university exams. But how good is it at Chinese? Can it pass the HSK?

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  2. About cheating, spaced repetition and learning Chinese

    Have you even found yourself grading your answer slightly more positively than you should? Even though we all know that we shouldn’t, I think this is quite common. We shouldn’t do this! We’re only cheating ourselves and impeding our progress. In this article, I talk a little about cheating, spaced repetition software and some related consequences and theories.

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