China Book Recommendations – and a lucky draw winner
My China books in China, doesn’t include all learning material or books in Finland Thank you everyone for taking part at the very first lucky draw of this blog! First I will announce the winner and then share everyone’s China book recommendations, so we all can have something new on our reading lists. Links to the books are Amazon affiliate links that helps this blog to pay for web hosting. The winner for free ebook copy of P.R.C – Pretty Real China is: Jonathan Congratulations! I will give your email address to the author who will then arrange the book to you directly. Here is Jonathan’s winning comment (chosen by…
Chinese learning methods
Recently I had lunch with a reader who I’m happy to call my new friend too. She asked me what my Chinese study methods were, what did I do to reach this level of Chinese. I couldn’t give her a good answer on the spot, so I decided to make it a blog post instead. There isn’t any short cuts to mastering Chinese, you need to do the work, but there are methods and tools that can help you to reach your goal. The challenge in learning Chinese is to keep at it, not to give up. Here are some study methods I’ve used. This blog post includes affiliate links…
My mentors, Idols and people I look up to
Mentors push you to fly In life, career and learning Chinese, there are people who I look up to. These people probably don’t know it, but they have helped me to improve my Chinese and reach for my dreams. I hope everyone could have people like these in their lives to mentor and inspire them. Today I want to introduce four people to you who have been important to me in different ways. 1. I met Rauno through his girlfriend at the time a few years ago. He is the most hardworking student I know and his passion for the Chinese language is probably even greater than mine. He writes…
Recommend your favourite China book – Win a free book
We all have our favourite books about China, books that teach us more about this amazing culture that we are or want to be a part of. Books that help us make the decision to move to China and make our dreams come true. Books that make us laugh and relate to the author’s story. Now it’s time to have our very first lucky draw here at Living a Dream in China and recommend your favourite books to me and other readers! If you’re lucky, you can win a free digital copy of a new book called P.R.C – Pretty Real China! Writer and photographer Denis Lejeune lived in Chongqing…