This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. If you are a native English speaker learning a European language for the most part you can look at writing in that language and make a guess …
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese series to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. Every single character in Chinese, both Traditional and Simplified, is made up of around 200 small “pieces” that act very roughly like an alphabet. Learn these 200 pieces and …
All Chinese characters are made up of the same 200 Chinese radicals! Read More »
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. Chinese grammar is highly “pattern-based”. Learn these patterns and you’ll be able to communicate much faster than if you try to bolt together your own sentences. First …
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. Update: Our free Sensible Pinyin Course is now available. First read through this article to see why Pinyin is so important and then head over to the …
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This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. Why learn Chinese? Specifically, why are you learning Chinese? Do you have a good reason? Starting to learn Chinese without a good reason to do will likely end …
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You’ve just started learning Chinese and are ready to talk – this article gives you a basic script (with recordings) as well as suggestions for a Chinese name. You’ll learn how to speak Chinese today, right now, if you follow through with the instructions. We outlined why talking from Day 1 is important in this …
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This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. How to speak Chinese is a question that baffles learners early in their Chinese journey. Often we wait until we think we are good enough and then …
This article looks at 10 Things I Wish I knew from Day 1 about How to Learn Chinese! Chinese is no more difficult than any other foreign language. It is, however, more time consuming – see this article for my thoughts on this. The “difficult” part of Chinese is that unlike with other languages all of …
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Chinese Tones are one of the most challenging aspects of Chinese. The good news is that with enough practice, like any skill, you’ll be able to master Chinese Tones. Additionally, you already use tones in English, just in a very different way to in Chinese – we’ll look at how to transfer these existing tones to …