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What are tones?
October 16, 2019
Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language, which means that the way a sound is pronounced directly affects the meaning of what is said.
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Common difficulties you might meet
October 16, 2019
The purpose of this section is to clarify some common mistakes and difficulties you might meet when learning mandarin Chinese pronunciations.
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Tips and suggestions to improve your Chinese pronunciation
October 16, 2019
Here are five tips and suggestions to improve your Chinese pronunciation.
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Should I learn characters?
October 16, 2019
Whether to learn characters or not depends on the goals of different people.
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How should I learn characters?
October 16, 2019
Here are some tips and suggestions for Chinese characters learners.
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Four main types of Chinese characters
October 16, 2019
Here we introduce four categories of of Chinese characters: pictographs, pictophonetic characters, associative compounds and self-explanatory characters.
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Top 10 most common Chinese characters
October 16, 2019
We’ve compiled a quick list on the top 10 most common Chinese characters and how to use them.
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Chinese character memorization methods
October 16, 2019
With a growing pool of research in memory and memory competitions on the rise, this article will be a quick round-up of some of these learning methodologies and some of my thoughts on how you can use them to learn characters quickly.