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Click here for a 14-day free trial of ChinesePod Can a podcast like ChinesePod improve your learning process? How much does ChinesePod cost? What I like about ChinesePod What ChinesePod offers Common mistakes among ChinesePod users Final considerations This is my review of ChinesePod, my favorite podcast for learning Chinese language. The first version of

Similarities between Chinese and Japanese – Index Main similarities between Chinese and Japanese Main differences between Chinese and Japanese Frequently asked questions Conclusion A frequent question asked of students of Chinese or Japanese is “what’s the difference between Chinese and Japanese?” This question, if asked by someone who hasn’t had the good fortune to learn

Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! How long does it take to learn Mandarin? – Index The swim or sink dude The full-time student The long-distance Chinese learner The exchange student The “I would love but I can’t” guy The angry expat The indifferent person Some final words

Interrogative substitutions谁 (shéi/shuí)，什么 (shénme)，哪 (nǎ) Interrogative substitutions are similar to the “wh – question words” in English, or the interrogative pronouns in Italian. When using interrogative substitutions, the order of the phrase doesn’t change. The interrogative substitutions, precisely, substitute the word that should be found in the answer. When formulating a question through the use

Free Chinese Level Test Click Here to Discover Your HSK Level If you’re studying Chinese, you will have already heard of the HSK exam, which is a nightmare for many people. In this article, I’ll explain what it consists of, what it’s useful for, where you can write it, and how much it costs. Origins

The Chengyu, in Chinese 成语, are four character expressions that express a particular meaning, taken from the stories of classical China. There are lots of Chengyu in the Chinese language and they get used quite a bit. When a foreigner manages to master the Chengyu – along with idiomatic expressions – both in written and

This article was written by Cathy of HanBridge Mandarin. As you already know, given the four main language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), “listening” and “reading” mark progresses of language input, while “speaking” and “writing” represent the output of a language. Your ability and level on language speaking and writing depends on the number

Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! This post is a review of the method invented by James Heisig, the master of Kanji (the alphabet that Japanese people borrowed from China) and Hanzi, that is the Chinese characters. The introduction of Remember Simplified Hanzi by J. Heisig and T.

Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! I’ve already discussed in my plan to learn Chinese how I prefer to rely on the “context” while learning a language. This post tells how, when I started to study Mandarin again some months ago, I was able to fix forever on

Study Chinese in Memphis – Index The Chinese community in Memphis Public schools in Memphis Private schools in Memphis General suggestions The Chinese community in Memphis Memphis has a relatively small Chinese community compared with other cities in the country, consisting of less than 2,000 people. In addition, many of the Chinese residents in the

China is a big place. Everyone knows this – you just need to look at it on a map. There’s a huge wealth of different climates, cuisines, and age-old customs across this one land, just waiting to be discovered. But if your main reason for travelling to China is to immerse yourself in the Chinese

Why immersion is important for learning Chinese It’s a fact that any language learner has probably heard hundreds of times. Immersion is the most efficient (and some would say the only) way to gain fluency in a target language, and Mandarin Chinese is no exception. But what do we actually mean by Chinese language immersion?

After almost a year we come back with our interviews to the superstars of Mandarin language, that this those people that not only are studying Mandarin but, through the internet, contribute to the always growing community of Chinese learners with their own wisdom. Today we’ll talk with Olle Linge, a 30 years old Swedish guy

Chinese character dictionary by Ian Lamont Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! Why should you be interested on memory? The reason for which people that have a better memory will learn a language better and faster should be obvious. No matters the language you are studying, if you

In this article, we’ll see special constructions, peculiar to the Chinese language that will make your expressions in Chinese more elegant. 如 and 不如 如 (rú) “to be equal to, like a” is used more in the formal written form than in the spoken language. The comparison is created when it’s mainly used metaphorically. Here