The results from latest HSK test are here! How is my Chinese doing?
Points: listening/grammar/reading/comprehensive Yesterday I got the results from my third HSK test. I bet most of you know about HSK, but the rest of you should know that it is official Chinese Proficiency Test. There is two versions of the…
Why did I come to Cantonese Guangzhou to study Mandarin Chinese?
Update from 2019: I’ve now been living in China for 9 years. I started teaching Chinese in 2014 and in 2017 I opened my own language center called Expat Chinese. We Specialize in teaching Chinese the Western way. If you…
Why I Use Skritter To Learn To Write Chinese And Why You Should Too?
Skritter is an unique website to learn how to write Chinese and Japanese. Besides writing you can also practice tones, pinyin and meaning of characters and words. I honestly think that it’s one of the best tools out there to…
Sara Jaaksola in China: The reason why I decided to live in China
[Updated 2013.7.7] Coming to China had been my dream as long as I could remember. In primary school grade 6 we were asked to make presentations of countries to our notebooks. I chose China because my parents had lived there…