How Jake Gill from Skritter Learned Chinese
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Mandarin Reading
Posts on moving from textbook passages to real written Chinese: characters, graded readers, reading apps, novels, and strategies for surviving unknown words.
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01 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... Read 02 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... Read 03 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... Read
Battle of the Apps: LingQ Premium Vs Duolingo
Over the years I’ve used a number of Mandarin Chinese learning apps with mixed results. Some of them, I credit with playing a significant role in enab...
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Jared Turner on How He Created Mandarin Companion Graded Readers
If you’re learning Chinese, you’ve probably heard of Mandarin Companion’s graded readers, which make it possible to read Mandarin from an elementary l...
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Gamify your Chinese Learning with Ninchanese (Podcast)
I found Ninchanese particularly effective when transitioning between elementary and intermediate levels. The gamified elements, progressing through st...
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Learning Mandarin with Dong Chinese (Podcast)
Dong Chinese is an all-in-one Chinese learning app that enables learners to learn sentences in context using spaced repetition. In the episode, we dis...
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Former NASA Employee Applies Engineering Approach to Mandarin learning (Podcast)
Outlier specialise in facilitating the language learning process by breaking down the complexities of the language, including Chinese characters. And...
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Your Ultimate Guide to Practicing the Tones of the Chinese Language
The tones of the Chinese language are often considered to be extremely difficult for non-native speakers to grasp. In this post I explain how I learne...
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Launching New Sentence Mining App Mandarin Mosaic (Podcast)
Karl Baker, recently launched his new Mandarin learning app, Mandarin Mosaic. The App seeks to make sentence mining accessible. Like Anki, but easier...
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Mandarin Learner Completes Extreme One Month Anki Challenge (Podcast)
Anki is a Spaced Repetition flashcards program that enables you to drill and create flashcards to aid your memory's retention of new information. And...
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