Hacking Chinese

A better way of learning Mandarin

Articles tagged with ‘Digital reading’

  1. Student Q&A: April, 2025: Reading with Pinyin, Chinese texts on your phone, and deciphering handwriting

    Should you read Chinese with or without Pinyin? What are the pros and cons of reading on your phone? And how do you learn to read Chinese people’s handwriting?

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  2. Zooming in: The tools you need to break down and understand Chinese

    In order to learn efficiently, it’s important that you integrate your knowledge. This means being able to break down Chinese in order to understand it, but it also means looking at context and sorting out confusing cases. In this first article, I introduce tools for breaking Chinese down.

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