Chinese Learning Blog
- No, the Chinese word for "penguin" does not really mean "business goose"
- 故事 FM (Gùshì FM / Story FM) is an interesting Chinese podcast for listening practice
- A tip for Mandarin second tone: start high
- Keep dates on your Chinese flashcards
- Why you should keep notes in your Chinese flashcards
- Why redundancy is good for language learning
- The importance of context in Chinese flashcards
- Using emotional states to remember Chinese
- Personalise your Chinese learning
- Refer to other memories
- 5 ways to optimise your Chinese flashcards
- Interference when learning Chinese
- Avoid enumerations
- Avoid sets
- Graphical deletion and audio deletion for learning Chinese
- Use mnemonics
- Use imagery to learn Chinese
- Cloze deletion for learning Chinese
- The minimum information principle
- Build upon the basics
- Learn before you memorise
- Use the rabbit hole effect to learn Chinese
- Defeat in detail
- Complementary memory
- 10000 hours of Chinese listening
- Sentence branching
- Delete your flashcards
- Sentence mining
- Understand before you learn
- Sharpening the saw and learning Chinese
- Why Randy Hunt is wrong about flashcards
- A simple test for your Chinese study methods
- How to Learn to Write Chinese: The Method
- How to Learn to Write Chinese: Key Concepts
- How to Learn to Write Chinese: Introduction
- Set Up Lifelong Chinese Character Learning in 10 Minutes
- The 10 best free resources for learning Mandarin Chinese
- Five free Chinese podcasts you should be listening to
- 10 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Chinese Right Now
- 5 Lies Teachers Tell You About Mandarin Tones
- Chinese Boost readers might like these Chinese wall art prints
- Numbers are hard in Chinese because you don't understand them in English
- Improve Your Chinese With: Subtitles
- Improve Your Chinese By: Speaking Slowly
- Review: Lexikeet Chinese