Chinese Learning Blog

  1. No, the Chinese word for "penguin" does not really mean "business goose"
  2. 故事 FM (Gùshì FM / Story FM) is an interesting Chinese podcast for listening practice
  3. A tip for Mandarin second tone: start high
  4. Keep dates on your Chinese flashcards
  5. Why you should keep notes in your Chinese flashcards
  6. Why redundancy is good for language learning
  7. The importance of context in Chinese flashcards
  8. Using emotional states to remember Chinese
  9. Personalise your Chinese learning
  10. Refer to other memories
  11. 5 ways to optimise your Chinese flashcards
  12. Interference when learning Chinese
  13. Avoid enumerations
  14. Avoid sets
  15. Graphical deletion and audio deletion for learning Chinese
  16. Use mnemonics
  17. Use imagery to learn Chinese
  18. Cloze deletion for learning Chinese
  19. The minimum information principle
  20. Build upon the basics
  21. Learn before you memorise
  22. Use the rabbit hole effect to learn Chinese
  23. Defeat in detail
  24. Complementary memory
  25. 10000 hours of Chinese listening
  26. Sentence branching
  27. Delete your flashcards
  28. Sentence mining
  29. Understand before you learn
  30. Sharpening the saw and learning Chinese
  31. Why Randy Hunt is wrong about flashcards
  32. A simple test for your Chinese study methods
  33. How to Learn to Write Chinese: The Method
  34. How to Learn to Write Chinese: Key Concepts
  35. How to Learn to Write Chinese: Introduction
  36. Set Up Lifelong Chinese Character Learning in 10 Minutes
  37. The 10 best free resources for learning Mandarin Chinese
  38. Five free Chinese podcasts you should be listening to
  39. 10 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Chinese Right Now
  40. 5 Lies Teachers Tell You About Mandarin Tones
  41. Chinese Boost readers might like these Chinese wall art prints
  42. Numbers are hard in Chinese because you don't understand them in English
  43. Improve Your Chinese With: Subtitles
  44. Improve Your Chinese By: Speaking Slowly
  45. Review: Lexikeet Chinese