Comments on: How to get honest feedback to boost your Chinese speaking and writing https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/ A better way of learning Mandarin Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: 7 characteristics of a great Chinese tutor or private teacher | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-134806 Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:21:58 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-134806 […] I’ve written more about the importance of feedback and how to get it here: How to get honest feedback to boost your Chinese speaking and writing. […]

]]> By: 7 kinds of tone problems and what to do about them | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-129806 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:12:22 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-129806 […] Even if you can hear the tones, you might not be able to reliably produce them accurately. To learn this, you need to do two things: mimic native speakers and get corrective feedback. […]

]]> By: Student Q&A, January 2025: Text that reads like English with Chinese words, how to get good feedback from AI, and how to learn to write formal Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-126910 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:42:07 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-126910 […] How to get honest feedback to boost your Chinese speaking and writing […]

]]> By: Native speakers and native speakers | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-126688 Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:18:41 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-126688 […] Feedback, answers, and help with written language require expertise from people experienced in readi… A professional editor or a teacher trained in linguistics is far better equipped to explain grammatical and vocabulary usage than someone who doesn’t read or write unless they have to. […]

]]> By: 3 thing I wish I had known as a beginner student of Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-122176 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:53:34 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-122176 […] Communication guides your learning – When you speak Chinese with another person, it highlights what you know and what you don’t know. This allows you to identify your weaknesses and work on them. This type of feedback is essential because as a beginner, you cannot evaluate how clear your pronunciation is, how legible your handwriting is and the like. I wrote more about the importance of feedback here: How to get honest feedback to boost your Chinese speaking and writing. […]

]]> By: How to Speak Chinese Fluently: Top Tips for Learners of Any Level | FluentU Mandarin Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-119955 Tue, 14 May 2024 11:56:02 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-119955 […] Fluent in 3 Months blog discusses how perfectionism is a terrible attribute for language learners. This post at Hacking Chinese provides some great, specific tactics that can help you be more receptive to […]

]]> By: Learning the right chengyu the right way | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-119345 Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:37:13 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-119345 […] Acquiring that model takes an awful lot of input, though, or someone needs to point it out to you. This requires good and honest feedback, which is not easy to get. […]

]]> By: The Hacking Chinese guide to Mandarin tones | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-116470 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:22:05 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-116470 […] Feedback is essential for learning tones. I’ve already mentioned that knowing if you heard a tone correctly is crucial for establishing the right tone categories, but it’s also essential for pronouncing tones yourself. It’s almost impossible to evaluate how good your pronunciation is without professional feedback or at least some way of checking systematically. Native speakers will typically praise your pronunciation regardless of how good it is. I offer a detailed pronunciation check-up as an optional add-on to my pronunciation course, but if that does not suit you, make sure you get feedback some other way. Read more here: How to get honest feedback to boost your Chinese speaking and writing. […]

]]> By: Training your Chinese teacher, part 4: Writing ability | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-art-of-being-corrected/#comment-114809 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:29:23 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=134#comment-114809 […] How to get honest feedback to boost your Chinese speaking and writing […]

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