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By: How to improve your Mandarin speaking skills with a tutor | Hacking Chinese

How to improve your Mandarin speaking skills with a tutor | Hacking Chinese — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:27:39 +0000

[…] is a hard problem to solve. It has bothered me for a long time; indeed, one of the earlier articles here on Hacking Chinese is about this topic, but I still find myself doing it to students occasionally as a teacher, although I would like to […]

By: Training your Chinese teacher, part 1: Introduction - Hacking Chinese

Training your Chinese teacher, part 1: Introduction - Hacking Chinese — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 08:01:05 +0000

[…] Focus on one thing at a time – This is my biggest pet peeve: teachers tend to try to teach you too many things at once. If they correct you on a tone in a sentence and you try again, they point out that the word order is wrong. When you fix the word order, they switch focus again. This is true for instructors of all kinds, not just language teachers. The best way of changing this is to put the blame on yourself: just say you find it hard to focus on more than one thing at a time. […]

By: 9 Bold Strategies to Speak Mandarin Chinese Like a Pro

9 Bold Strategies to Speak Mandarin Chinese Like a Pro — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 08:25:40 +0000

[…] understanding, managing tricky grammar, structuring sentences properly, and using slang words. It’s very hard to focus on more than a few things at a time, so take it easy! Focus on one thing in one conversation and then on something else in […]

By: Wordoor | 9 Bold Strategies to Improve Your Conversational Chinese

Wordoor | 9 Bold Strategies to Improve Your Conversational Chinese — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:38:21 +0000

[…] tricky grammar, structuring sentences properly, and using slang words. It’s very hard to focus on more than a few things at a time, so take it easy! Focus on one thing in one conversation and then on something else in […]

By: 9 Bold Strategies to Speak Mandarin Chinese Like a Pro

9 Bold Strategies to Speak Mandarin Chinese Like a Pro — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:12:39 +0000

By: How to improve your Chinese writing ability through focused reading | Hacking Chinese - 揭密中文

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:46:22 +0000

[…] case, you need to identify what your problem is. You might have problems on all levels, but since you can’t focus on everything at once, you still need to select a limited number of targets. Again, ask yourself, what’s the […]

By: 4 steps to prepare for Summer Recording Challenge | More Vietnamese

4 steps to prepare for Summer Recording Challenge | More Vietnamese — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:57:56 +0000

[…] setting your goals for this challenge, you need to be specific and then choose materials that will enable you to meet each of them. Personally I’ve set […]

By: Adding tone marks (w/o Pinyin) above characters to practise tones | Hacking Chinese - 揭密中文

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:55:38 +0000

[…] the difficulty of reading aloud in Chinese. Using tone marks without Pinyin is one case of the importance of not trying to learn everything at once and instead keeping your focus on just a fe…. The automatic solution provided here isn’t perfect (it doesn’t deal with neutral tones […]

By: How to Learn Languages: Focus on One Thing at a Time

How to Learn Languages: Focus on One Thing at a Time — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:49:49 +0000

[…] can stand in the way of your progress by not abiding to this philosophy. Find the entire text on Hacking Chinese, and have a look at other articles as well. It’s an excellent blog about how to learn […]

By: Whatever you are trying to learn, limit your focus! | Learn Languages: Yago

Whatever you are trying to learn, limit your focus! | Learn Languages: Yago — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:23:06 +0000

[…] teachers / instructors unknowingly can stand in the way of your progress. Find the entire text on Hacking Chinese Share this:Like this:LikeBe the first to like this […]