Are you addicted to the super popular game called “Clash of Clans”? If so, you can learn a lot of Chinese playing the game in Chinese while still having a ton of fun. And you can make many friends doing so. Clash of Clans is very popular in Greater China, and I actually learned about …
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A Chinese Bullet Train Ticket Deciphered
[lastupdated] Have you ever bought a train ticket for a bullet train in China? Or are you planning to travel in China with bullet trains? In this article, I will show you a typical Chinese bullet train ticket and decipher the ticket and vocab for you.
A Script To Easily Search Traditional Chinese Words With CC-CEDICT In Linux
[lastupdated] The CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary is incredibly useful but a little difficult to search effectively and efficiently initially. As a text file, you could use a text editor and simply search using CTRL+F, but it might be quite an inefficient way to search. As of the time of this writing, December 2016, there are 114886 …
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A Hilarious Chinese Youtube Channel
I recently stumbled upon a hilarious Chinese Youtube channel called TMD Shanghai. It is a comedy channel from Shanghai. I believe that watching videos from this channel can help motivate you to continue learning and improving your Chinese.
Growing Up With Chinese: A Great Video Series To Get Started Learning Mandarin
[lastupdated] One fantastic and free Chinese video series to watch to get started learning Mandarin is called Growing Up With Chinese (成长汉语). It is a series officially made by CCTV (China Central Television) and is quite professionally made. It starts out at the very beginning level, assuming no prior knowledge of Mandarin, and builds up …
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My New Favourite Chinese Language Drama
I recently started watching a new Chinese drama called 親愛的翻譯官Les Interprète. It is a drama about French language interpreters. It stars 楊冪 (Yang Mi) and 黃軒 (Huang xuan).
Google Translate’s Brilliant Chinese Handwriting Tool
If you want a way to handwrite Chinese Characters by using a website and drawing them with your mouse, I believe that Google Translate’s Chinese handwriting tool is the best. The reasons are numerous why you might want to use such a tool. If you encounter a new character that you have never seen before, …
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Fun With Tones In Chinese
[lastupdated] Mandarin Chinese allows you to have lots of fun with tones due to how many homophones there are. This posts comes because of an experience I had about 3 years ago in China. One day, I was giving my students a lecture at the college I was working at, about transportation and traveling in …
A Review of Memrise For Learning Chinese
[lastupdated] Today, I had the opportunity to test out memrise.com. Overall, I really enjoyed the experience. I only had time to try out some of the beginner lessons, but I was extremely impressed.
Apps That Can Evaluate Your Chinese Pronunciation
[lastupdated] I recently came across some great smartphone apps that can evaluate your Chinese pronunciation quality. Pronunciation is absolutely crucial in Mandarin, especially because it is a tonal language. But without a teacher or native Mandarin Chinese speaker, it is hard to know if you are pronouncing words correctly. This article talks about the best …
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