MandarinBean Review: Practice Chinese Reading and Listening
With the wealth of internet resources of the modern age, many people are turning to websites designed to help mandarin students, blogs, or even chatrooms for help. The days of…
Zizzle App: Learning Mandarin through Association
Introduction Learning languages generally involves four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Most apps I have used focus strongly on speaking and listening while dedicating little time to reading and…
The Most Recommended Online Chinese Courses
Because of limitations due to time, location, or a lack of teachers, more and more students are turning to online lessons. Mandarin Chinese learners are no exceptions. Today, there are…
HelloTalk Review: Helping People Learn Languages from Each Other
Intro Everyone in the world is a speaker of their own language. Because of this, everyone can teach someone else how to speak their own native tongue. Who better to…
Mandarin Café Review: The Online Class Experience
When it comes to formal language study, a classroom led by a dedicated teacher is hard to beat. Having such a teacher is the ideal, formal way to learn, but…
Du Chinese Review – an Excellent Chinese Reading App
If there is an app that can help you improve your Chinese reading, listening and comprehension as effortless as possible, it's the Du Chinese app which is available for both…
Chinese Translator Apps Review: the good, the bad, and the absolutely useless
A little pre-review ramble: I am located in Shanghai behind the Great Firewall, so I was not able to simply take a stroll in the Google Play Store like many…
How Is an Online Chinese Course Going?
If you aren’t lucky enough to live in an area with low cost Mandarin schools, or 1-1 private teachers, chances are you’ve already taken your search for tuition online. There…
HelloChinese: Say “Ni Hao” To Chinese Language
Learning Chinese has many benefits. Millions of people around the world would like to give it a try, but there are so many excuses. Serious studies require serious time investments.…