Comments on: Why you should start blogging in Chinese today

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:34:12 +0000

In reply to Debora. Just write things very close to yourself and your life, such as what you're doing, what you think about that, and so on. A diary of some kind works well and can be written at almost any level of proficiency!

By: Debora

Debora — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 22:15:26 +0000

Hi, I realize this question might sound kind of dumb, but what would I blog about? I am a beginner, so I don’t really have the language skills to tackle anything too big.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:15:32 +0000

In reply to Olle Linge. Ok, thanks for your reply! My concern is the loading speed. I know that many websites based in Europe or America are extremely slow when visited from mainland China because the data has to go through the firewall processing. I've heard websites located on HK, Taiwan or Singapore servers tend to be faster, though I'm not sure if it is a fact or just a fake marketing assertion spread by the Asian hosting service providers. I'll keep investigate ;-)

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:15:25 +0000

In reply to Jason. No idea, really. I mean anything works, as long as it isn't blocked, of course.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 05:48:13 +0000

Thanks for the article! A lot of good points here.
Would you recommend any hosting service in particular for mainland China?

By: Delsh

Delsh — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 06:58:23 +0000

“Why you should start blogging” has a lot of reasons. However, when is all upto you. When you can commit yourself to blogging, is the time you start blogging.

By: sahiba sheikh

sahiba sheikh — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:07:39 +0000

Thanks
This article is very helpful.
please keep it up.

By: Sam Dean

Sam Dean — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:04:22 +0000

If a person is thinking to start learning Chinese, then he must definitely go fir it, learning Chinese and mastering it opens doors to nearly one-fifth of the world’s population as well as to one of the strongest economy of the globe. I appreciate your efforts in writing such an amazing article. Keep up the good writing. Cheers.

By: Dhananjay

Dhananjay — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:32:52 +0000

Writing,definitely is a great and to the point way of improving Chinese as a whole, because you are so intensely concentrating to make fewer mistakes than when you do while speaking.
Sometimes though,translating using a dictionary is quite tricky. Synonym study becomes a very important,as a result that it may even hamper the actual process.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 11 May 2016 14:13:08 +0000

In reply to Olle Linge.

Yeah, although for my personal idea, I wish to discuss advanced topics that I have pondered for a long time, so I will likely write out an essay first, post it somewhere like lang-8 or show a friend, then make the video. For example, having read Fact and Fantasy by John Defrancis, I think that chinese characters are actually not necessary at all, but that speakers or learners of languages that use chinese characters adopt this “fantasy” that they are necessary. E.g., Japanese and Korean are very similar languages, but Japanese uses Chinese characters and Korean uses a phonetic script without issues. So I’m also reading 思考，快與慢 in Mandarin in order to discuss those ideas. (Sorry, I’m kinda using my posting here to help give myself a commitment to going through with it).
Here are some native level short stories written in pinyin: http://www.pinyin.info/readings/pinyin_riji_duanwen.html