Jared Turner on How He Created Mandarin Companion Graded Readers
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Today, I'm joined by a special guest on the podcast, Jared Turner from Mandarin Companion. If you’re le…
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Reading & Characters
Hanzi, literacy, and graded readers — building Mandarin reading skills.
8 posts
Four Ways to Bridge the Gap From Textbooks to Native Chinese Reading Material
If you’ve memorised the most common 500 to 1000 Mandarin words you might find yourself in an awkward position. You can understand most of what’s writt…
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Building an App to Achieve Native Chinese Reading Skills (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google My guest on today’s podcast is computer scientist and educational technologist, Emmanuel Roche.…
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Do You REALLY Need to Learn to Write Chinese Characters?
Learning to read and write Chinese characters is one of the most daunting challenges for Mandarin learners. But do you really need to learn to write C…
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Leaning Chinese with Graded Readers (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. On today’s episode, I discuss a topic I have previously blogged about: graded readers. F…
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Learning Characters with Hack Chinese (Podcast)
One of the most daunting aspects of learning Chinese is the sheer number of characters required for basic literacy. It’s estimated that comfortably re…
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Reading Novels is the Best Mandarin Hack
Those of us learning Chinese from abroad often struggle to replicate the levels of immersion students based in China take for granted. This is especia…
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Why I'm a Fan of Chinese Graded Readers
When I started out learning Mandarin one of the things that used to irritate me the most was receiving vague and unhelpful replies from seasoned learn…
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