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Four Ways ChatGPT Can Give Your Chinese a Huge Boost

Since ChatGPT became publicly available last November it has allegedly grown in popularity at a faster rate than any other online app or service in the history of the internet. The breadth of its appeal is not hard to understand. It can write crisp copy, research topics of interest, suggest birthday party ideas and, if…

The Valuable Lesson I Learned Buying Snacks at Taiwan’s Night Markets

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been travelling around Taiwan, visiting various towns and cities in the south of the country. As I wrote previously, daily interactions with locals in shops, hotels and train stations tend to pose a different kind of challenge to what I’ve become used to learning Chinese in the UK…

Four Things I’ve Learned From My First Week Living in Taiwan

Last week I moved to Taiwan to travel and study Chinese for a period of six months. Although I have been to Taipei before, this is my first time doing so as a Mandarin speaker and my first experience of living in a Chinese speaking country for an extended period. Below are five things I…

2023 Chinese Learning Plans: I’m Moving to Taiwan!

Over the past few weeks I haven’t posted quite as often as previously. There are two main reasons for this. The first is that I was struggling for motivation. Having achieved my new year’s resolution in 2022 to get my spoken Mandarin to a level where I’d be comfortable hosting podcasts in the language I…

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