Learning Chinese

Five Tips to Accelerate Your Chinese Language Learning

April 10, 2012
Five Tips to Accelerate Your Chinese Language Learning

It’s been about a year and a half since I began learning Chinese, and in some aspects, I feel like I have come a long way. Eighteen months ago, all I could say was thank you, how much money, too expensive, bathroom, and eggplant. (Eggplant is something Chinese people say instead of “cheese!” when they [...]

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Improving Your Chinese, Two Dictionaries at a Time

March 3, 2012
Improving Your Chinese, Two Dictionaries at a Time

My iTouch is the single best investment I’ve made toward learning Mandarin. I wanted to buy a touch screen electronic dictionary for learning Chinese, and it seemed that the iTouch (RMB 1798) was just a little more expensive than some devices that were only dictionaries, and didn’t also have internet, email, music, maps, and other [...]

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