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Tag: Chinese Literacy

  • Do You REALLY Need to Learn to Write Chinese Characters?

    Do You REALLY Need to Learn to Write Chinese Characters?

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    Mischa Wilmers

    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 Chinese characters by hand? In this blogpost, I’ll show you how I learned to read and type Chinese in five simple steps, and why you don’t have to learn…

  • Learning Characters with Hack Chinese (Podcast)

    Learning Characters with Hack Chinese (Podcast)

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    Mischa Wilmers

    One of the most daunting aspects of learning Chinese is the sheer number of characters required for basic literacy. It’s estimated that comfortably reading a newspaper requires around 3000 characters, whilst an educated native speaker will typically know in excess of 7000. Memorising such a high number of characters is not an easy task but…