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Skritter review: Boosting your character learning (2013 edition)
Skritter is the best character-learning app/service available. In this Skritter review, we look at why and how you can use it to learn in a better way.
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Improving your Chinese by translating from another language
I think translation is one of the best ways of improving writing ability. Translation forces you into linguistic environments you wouldn’t have ended up in if you wrote the article yourself. This article is about how translation can be used to improve your written Chinese.
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Vocalise more to learn more Chinese
Do you know how to make your passive learning more active and thereby learn a lot more Chinese? This article is about how you can increase your awareness of the language around you, process it more actively and therefore also learn more from the experience.
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Kickstart your Chinese character learning with the 100 most common radicals
This is a list of the 100 most common radicals among the 2000 most common characters, meaning that it’s excellent for beginners who want to boost their understanding of Chinese characters. The list contains simplified, traditional, variants, meaning, pronunciation, examples, helpful comments and colloquial names.
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Website restructuring completed
This is just a small post to inform you that my restructuring of Hacking Chinese is now complete. This is cooler than it sounds, because it actually means that a lot of new content has been added. This is especially good news for beginners, but should be interesting for others as well. I have done […]
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Learning outside class
Learning outside class comes with both advantages and disadvantages compared to formal education. On the positive side, we can study according to our own goals and choose study methods that suit our own style. It’s more likely that we enjoy what we’re doing and if we’re disciplined enough, learning Chinese in this way is both […]
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Reading
To improve Chinese Reading ability requires knowledge of characters and words, but you also need to combine them into a meaningful whole. To read fluently, you need to be able to do this smoothly.
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Learning Chinese as a beginner
It takes a while to figure out how to learn Chinese, and when you do, you’re not a beginner anymore. This page page answers the most common questions about learning Mandarin as a beginner.
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31 Twitter feeds to help you learn Chinese
Twitter is an excellent source for learning Chinese. In this article, I list my favourite Twitter feeds in three categories: learning how to learn Chinese, learning how to learn languages in general and finally Chinese input on Twitter. Something missing in the article? Let me know!
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A language learner’s guide to reading comics in Chinese
This article is a guide to reading comics in Chinese, suitable for beginners as well as those who already have some experience. Reading comics is an excellent way of attacking the Great Wall of Chinese (the daunting effect of seeing a whole page of text and not knowing what to do). It’s also fun, which is arguably the most important thing.
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