Tips and Tricks for Learning Chinese with ChatGPT
I began learning Mandarin seven years ago, at a time when online resources for learning Chinese were – relative to today – still lagging behind in the stone age. The…
Is Chinese Too Hard to Learn? Confronting the Biggest Myths About Mandarin
“You’re learning Chinese? Why don’t you just pick something easier?” “Are you sure you want to do that? It’s going to take forever.” “I could never learn such an intimidating…
Learn Chinese in Montreal: Which Classes and Tutors are Right for You?
Montreal has a worldwide reputation as one of North America’s only bilingual cities with two official languages, English and French. However, with a growing Chinese diaspora, the city also has…
Best Books to Learn Chinese: Top Picks for Beginners to Advanced Learners
Learning Chinese is a journey filled with both challenges and rewards. For Chinese learners, the initial hurdles include mastering the tonal nature of the language and understanding its complex characters…
Chinese Grammar Survival Guide: A Comprehensive Overview of Chinese Prepositions
In Mandarin Chinese and many other languages, prepositions are small but mighty words that help us understand when, where, and why things happen in a sentence. For some learners, these…
Mastering the Suffix 儿: A Guide to “Erhua” in Mandarin Chinese
Picture yourself as a keen-eyed observer, noticing the subtle variations in expressions like “here” or “there,” your interest piqued by the dual forms of 这里/这儿(zhè lǐ/zhèr) and 那里/那儿(nà lǐ/nàr). This…
Things I wish I could’ve done differently when I started learning Chinese
A recent Reddit thread in the r/ChineseLanguage community asked learners, “What do you wish you had done differently when you started learning Chinese?” The responses were enlightening and offered many…
Can Duolingo help you master Chinese? – Duolingo Chinese Review
Intro: As a language learner, if you ever tried to search for language learning apps, it’s highly possible that you’ve seen Duolingo already. Duolingo is a hugely popular language-learning app,…
A Review of the Best Online Chinese Grammar Checkers
Recently, we have received many inquiries about if there are any good Chinese grammar checkers for learners to use in their daily studies. They want something like Grammarly for English,…