{"id":8753,"date":"2023-07-03T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2023-07-03T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:22:47","slug":"how-i-learnt-chinese-part-7-teaching-writing-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/how-i-learnt-chinese-part-7-teaching-writing-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"How I learnt Chinese, part 7: Teaching, writing, learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/plenary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9776 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ucl1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ucl1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ucl1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ucl1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I started studying Chinese in Sweden in 2007 and have been learning ever since: online and offline, at home and abroad, in formal courses and on my own, full time and part time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve told this story in six articles, and it&#8217;s now time to cap it off with a seventh and final article. This is not because the story is over and I have stopped learning Chinese, but because the situation has been stable for close to a decade now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tune in to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/podcast\/\">the Hacking Chinese Podcast<\/a> to listen to the related episode:<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/hackingchinese\/embed\/episodes\/152---How-I-learnt-Chinese--part-7-Teaching--writing--learning-e26gmnd\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/hacking-chinese-podcast\/id1536284827\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zODhlYjllOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==\">Google Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1536284827\/hacking-chinese-podcast\">Overcast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5iCRv1jg3j3yJZGJlYVYaO\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mzWId1aCeGE\">YouTube<\/a> and many other platforms!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To make sense of this article and put it into context, you might want to read or listen to the earlier articles in this series first:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a title=\"How I learnt Chinese, part 1: Where it all started\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/how-i-learnt-chinese-part-1-why-i-started-learning-chinese\/\">Where it all started<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How I learnt Chinese, part 2: Learning Mandarin in Sweden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/how-i-learnt-chinese-part-2-foreign-language-learning-in-sweden\/\">Learning Mandarin in Sweden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How I learnt Chinese, part 3: My first year in Taiwan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/i-learnt-chinese-part-3-first-year-taiwan\/\">My first year in Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How I learnt Chinese, part 4\uff1a My second year in Taiwan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/i-learnt-chinese-part-4%ef%bc%9a-second-year-taiwan\/\">My second year in Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How I learnt Chinese, part 5: Returning to Sweden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/i-learnt-chinese-part-5%ef%bc%9a-returning-sweden\/\">Returning to Sweden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How I learnt Chinese, part 6: Graduate program in Taiwan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/i-learnt-chinese-part-6-graduate-program-taiwan\/\">Graduate program in Taiwan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/how-i-learnt-chinese-part-7-teaching-writing-learning\/\">Teaching, writing, learning<\/a> (this article)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>What I&#8217;m doing today and how that helps me learn Chinese<\/h3>\n<p>This article covers the years after returning to Sweden from Taiwan in 2014 up to 2023 but is likely to still be relevant for years to come. I will talk about some general things related to advanced learning, but also connect it to my current situation. Frist let&#8217;s have a look at what I currently work with. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ollelinge\/\">you can check out my LinkedIn profile here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/how-to-play-adventure-text-games-with-a-chinese-teacher\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10402 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/escape-infographic-top-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m a lecturer at the Department of Education, Uppsala University &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>My job consists mostly of providing professional development for language teachers in the Swedish school system. This takes the shape of credit courses, but also activities tailored to specific organisations or institutions, as well as writing, lecturing and curriculum development. Most of this is about language learning and teaching in general, but some is directed at Chinese language education specifically. I don&#8217;t write directly for teachers on Hacking Chinese often, but there are exceptions, such as this bilingual article about using games to teach Chinese: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/how-to-play-adventure-text-games-with-a-chinese-teacher\/\">Text adventure games and how to use them in the Chinese language classroom<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wenzi-maoxian-youxi\/\">\u6587\u5b57\u5192\u9669\u6e38\u620f\u53ca\u5176\u5728\u5bf9\u5916\u6c49\u8bed\u6559\u5b66\u4e2d\u7684\u5e94\u7528<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/learning-science-in-chinese-with-liyonglelaoshi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-14389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/liyongle-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m director of studies for Languages for Specific Purposes, Department of Management and Engineering, Link\u00f6ping University\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; We offer language courses both for other programmes and as single-subject courses. As director of studies, I&#8217;m responsible for pedagogical matters, and plan and organise our courses. I&#8217;ve also been teaching Chinese here for more than a decade, mostly courses for engineers learning Chinese, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/learning-science-in-chinese-with-liyonglelaoshi\/\">which explains my interest in the combination of Chinese language and STEM subjects<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/celebrating-10-years-of-hacking-chinese\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/10years-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>I provide a better way of learning Mandarin through Hacking Chinese &#8211; <\/strong>It&#8217;s a bit silly to introduce Hacking Chinese since this article is published here, but if you&#8217;re new and want to know more about the site itself, I suggest you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/celebrating-10-years-of-hacking-chinese\/\">check out the ten-year-anniversary article I published in 2020<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/about\/\">the about page<\/a>. While I have received invaluable help from others over the years (see the anniversary post for more), there is no team behind the scenes, so I do everything from drafting articles to editing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/podcast\/\">the podcast<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/skritter-chinese-review-boosting-your-character-learning\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-11696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/skritter-banner-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m pedagogical lead at Skritter &#8211;<\/strong> If you&#8217;re not familiar with Skritter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/skritter-chinese-review-boosting-your-character-learning\/\">it&#8217;s an app for learning vocabulary in Chines eand Japanese<\/a>. I&#8217;ve had many roles in the Skritter team and worked with different things since I started working there in 2014, including blogging, social media, language corrections and content management. The most visible contribution to date is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/kickstart-your-learning-with-the-skritter-character-course\/\">the Skritter Character Course, which was published in 2022<\/a>. Nowadays, I work mostly with pedagogical matters as we try to make the app an ever better learning tool.<\/li>\n<li><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/escape-article-cover-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I write games for Chinese learners at WordSwing &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>While I don&#8217;t invest as much time as I would like to into <a href=\"https:\/\/wordswing.com\/\">WordSwing<\/a> these days, I&#8217;ve contributed to the pedagogical development of the service in general and to the adventure text games for Chinese learners in particular. If you haven&#8217;t tried them out, you should! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/escape-text-adventure-game-chinese-learners\/\">The first game we published is completely free to play!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Finding motivation to keep going as an advanced learner<\/h3>\n<p>If you thought the intermediate plateau was scary, I can tell you that beyond that lie the endless plains of advanced learning. Here, there&#8217;s so much to learn that it&#8217;s easy to give up and stick to what you already know. To make noticeably progress, you need to spend enormous amounts of time in a limited area, and even then, it can be hard to notice any difference without proper benchmarking.<\/p>\n<p>I will dedicate an entire article to this subject later, so let&#8217;s focus on how I learn Chinese today and what keeps me motivated. As I discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/the-three-roads-to-mastering-chinese\/\">the three paths to mastering Mandarin,<\/a> I believe there are three paths to mastery. Let&#8217;s have a look at each and see how I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<h4>The first path:\u00a0Using Chinese in your job<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/learn-chinese-faster-leaving-comfort-zone\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-17081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tightrope-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>If Chinese is an integral part of your job and you encounter different native speakers daily, you will learn a ton of Chinese. Naturally, you will learn more if you focus on studying, too, but the exposure and amount of practice you get will accumulate over the years even if you don\u2019t study. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/learn-chinese-faster-leaving-comfort-zone\/\">Using Chinese in a professional context will also require you to leave your comfort zone and be able to deal with many different situations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would estimate that around half my professional life is about Chinese, but most of it is not in Chinese. I&#8217;m writing this article in English and most of my professional development courses are in Swedish. I still teach Chinese and one professional development course is for Chinese teachers and in Chinese. I also need to read and listen a lot when doing research for articles, courses and so on.<\/p>\n<h4>The second path: Cultivating a genuine interest<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/25-books-i-read-in-chinese-last-year\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/books-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"25 books I read in Chinese last year\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Some people spend more time on their hobbies than they do on their jobs. If you can make Chinese the target of such a strong interest, you\u2019re likely to be able to reach mastery. This will power all kinds of useful process, such as turning most of your life into Chinese. Instead of listening to music from your own culture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/why-learning-chinese-through-music-is-underrated\/\">you listen to Chinese music<\/a>. Instead of reading books in English, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/25-books-i-read-in-chinese-last-year\/\">you read everything in Chinese<\/a>. You might also move to China, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/immersion-at-home-or-why-you-dont-have-to-go-abroad\/\">but this isn\u2019t strictly speaking necessary<\/a>. With a moderately strong interest, you can get far, but you need a genuinely strong motivation to reach mastery.<\/p>\n<p>I obviously have a strong interest in Chinese, but my problem is that I&#8217;m also interested in many, many other things. Some of these can be combined with Chinese, others not, but the upshot of all this is that I don&#8217;t have a strong enough interest to allow me to spend hours on end with Chinese just because I like it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/25-books-i-read-in-chinese-last-year\/\">In the article linked to above<\/a>, I wrote about the 25 books I read in Chinese in 2013, but I&#8217;m not focused enough on Chinese to do anything like that now. My interest is enough to keep me going, but it&#8217;s not enough to master the language on its own.<\/p>\n<h4>The third path: Having your social life in Chinese<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/language-learning-with-a-chinese-girlfriend-or-boyfriend\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/couple-300x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/couple-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/couple-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>If most of your social interactions are in Chinese, you will naturally develop excellent listening and speaking ability, provided that you speak Chinese with them of course. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/language-learning-with-a-chinese-girlfriend-or-boyfriend\/\">Depending on whom you talk to, what you talk about and how much, this could either be moderately helpful or the key to unlocking mastery.<\/a> Marrying or otherwise living with a native speaker of Chinese helps, but it&#8217;s not a requirement. Preferably, you should interact with a variety of people as well.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I speak Chinese, English and Swedish, often mixing all three, but in that order of preference. We have been doing that for well over a decade now, though, so this is normally within my comfort zone. Still, there&#8217;s an unlimited number of interesting topics to talk about, so I certainly learn new things all the time as well!<\/p>\n<h3>Teaching is an excellent way of learning Chinese<\/h3>\n<p>If you have the chance, teach Chinese.\u00a0It&#8217;s an excellent way of reinforcing what you already know and identifying things you only think you know. It needn&#8217;t be a formal course, or even a course at all, you could teach a beginner privately or volunteer somewhere that teaches Chinese. I&#8217;ve written an article about why teaching is so good for learning:\u00a0<a title=\"Use the benefits of teaching to boost your own Chinese learning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/use-the-benefits-of-teaching-to-boost-your-own-learning\/\">Use the benefits of teaching to boost your own Chinese learning<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qpJmAUhlsN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/use-the-benefits-of-teaching-to-boost-your-own-learning\/\">Use the benefits of teaching to boost your own Chinese learning<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Use the benefits of teaching to boost your own Chinese learning&#8221; &#8212; Hacking Chinese\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/use-the-benefits-of-teaching-to-boost-your-own-learning\/embed\/#?secret=LicSBF6uzS#?secret=qpJmAUhlsN\" data-secret=\"qpJmAUhlsN\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Learning Chinese: A fifteen-year lesson in humility?<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been learning Chinese for well-over fifteen years at this point, but there are so many things I don&#8217;t know and so much left to learn. This sometimes weighs on me, even if I know there&#8217;s no reason to let it. I can use Chinese freely in the contexts I care about and that&#8217;s what matters.<\/p>\n<p>To make quicker progress, I would need to invest more time and energy into my own proficiency, rather than trying to help others improve their Chinese. David Moser\u00a0put it well in <a href=\"http:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/texts\/1991Moser.pdf\">Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone once said that learning Chinese is &#8220;a five-year lesson in humility&#8221;. I used to think this meant that at the end of five years you will have mastered Chinese and learned humility along the way. However, now having studied Chinese for over six years, I have concluded that actually the phrase means that after five years your Chinese will still be abysmal, but at least you will have thoroughly learned humility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve now learnt Chinese for sixteen years, but while I wouldn&#8217;t describe my Chinese as abysmal, I know exactly what he meant. To this day, he&#8217;s still very humble about his own abilities, even though he&#8217;s now been learning the language for almost 40 years. D<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/the-new-paperless-revolution-in-chinese-reading\/\">avid also wrote a follow-up article here on Hacking Chinese, discussing how digital tools have revolutionised how Chinese is learnt and taught.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lGDT950W9L\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/the-new-paperless-revolution-in-chinese-reading\/\">The new paperless revolution in Chinese reading<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The new paperless revolution in Chinese reading&#8221; &#8212; Hacking Chinese\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/the-new-paperless-revolution-in-chinese-reading\/embed\/#?secret=rtz2Vnb2JJ#?secret=lGDT950W9L\" data-secret=\"lGDT950W9L\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion of this article and this series<\/h3>\n<p>This concludes the story of how I learnt Chinese. As I&#8217;ve already said, that doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;ve stopped learning, and one day I might return to this series as well. In the meantime, I hope you&#8217;ve found these articles interesting and inspiring. If you&#8217;ve read this far, please leave a comment below and say hi!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0<\/strong>This article, originally published in 2016, was rewritten from scratch and massively updated in July, 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s it like to study Chinese when you&#8217;ve already reached the goals you had when you started out? How can you keep on learning when you&#8217;re no longer studying the language? 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