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Pleco: Review of the English/Chinese Dictionary for iOS and Android Smartphones

Learning Chinese has become an increasingly common objective not just for future Sinologists and experts but also for neophytes in the world of business where it has become continuously more important. There are in fact an infinite amount of resources for how to best learn this language and facilitate learning for the user in this […]

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Chinese Flash Cards Review

Six months of Chinese flashcards’ review: The lessons I learned

Anki’s screenshot: The number of flashcards I reviewed every day in the past six months. Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! It’d been six months that I’m studying Chinese in a regular fashion. The idea was not to master the language as fast as I could. This is

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Review of Hacking Chinese Language Courses: Learn How to Learn Chinese

Today I want to talk about the new Chinese language courses “Hacking Chinese – A practical Guide to Learn Mandarin” and Unlocking Chinese – The ultimate course for beginners created by Olle Linge, author of the well-known blog, “Hacking Chinese.” Who is Olle Linge and what is his philosophy on learning? Olle Linge is a

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Chinese Characters

A Small Trick to Learn How to Write Chinese Characters Faster

Want to learn the fastest way to learn how to write Chinese characters? Click here! Today I want to show you how taking the time to learn the 256 Chinese radicals (that is the basic components of any Chinese character) will allow you to learn Chinese characters much faster. I will do it through a

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Learn How to Write Chinese Characters: Skritter Review & Discount

Sign up for Skritter using one of the links in this page and the coupon “SDC3952” to get 10% off What is Skritter? Why do you need a software to write characters? How much does it cost? How to use the software The advantages of learning how to write characters Common mistakes Other features of

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Anki Flashcards

Anki flashcards: A shortcut for learning Chinese

Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! Disclaimer: Even if this post mainly target Chinese learners, the ideas I share are quite general and I believe they hold true for any language. Why should you use flashcards to study Chinese? The use of flashcards involves active recall testing, that

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Chinese With Mike – Video course review

Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! I “discovered” the videos of Mike Laoshi, at the time Mike Hainzinger, in 2012, a few months after I began writing here on SDC. I spoke well of him on various occasions and a few months ago, John Murray Learning, the English publishing house that has published

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Chinese Characters

Find out how much of a Chinese newspaper you can understand

Click here to discover what Chinese courses that we recommend at the moment! Two months ago I started to study Chinese (here my plan: How to learn Chinese fast: my (lazy) way) and decided to share my progresses on this blog as an extreme attempt to keep motivated. However, a post only talking about me

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