Studying Chinese
Sara’s Mandarin Monday: Watch out these mistakes in your Chinese essays
While writing Chinese blog posts here and studying teaching Chinese at university, I’ve learned a lot about writing Chinese essays. This Monday I decide to share all my mistakes with you so you don’t have to do the same mistakes…
Becoming fluent in Chinese: April Goal Check-In
Happy Labor Day! It’s time for my monthly goal check-in. Listening I watched 18 episodes of Chinese TV and 15 episodes of American TV. Great! I finished 夫妻那些事 and will be looking for a new TV series to follow. I…
Learn Chinese pronunciation and pinyin with Pinyin Trainer
(This blog post includes affiliate links.) Recently I’ve been paying attention to my pronunciation as it’s not as good as it should be. I’ve decided to start from the beginning because I’m not even hearing the tones and pinyin correctly!…
Fluent Mandarin in three months? I’m not convinced
It’s been three months since Benny Lewis at Fluent in 3 Months started learning Mandarin in Taiwan. He still haven’t uploaded his three month video, but the time is up and lets take a look if it’s possible to get…