It will only take [est_time] to read this post! I use my bullet journal to track my personal goals, such as exercising more often (obviously), saving money and baking the perfect scones! Although one of my goals is also to pass an HSK exam (Chinese proficiency test), I haven’t figured out how to use my… Read More
Did you know there was a 5th tone in Mandarin Chinese? Many Chinese learners just refer to this tone as having ‘no tone’ or being ‘neutral’. However, this ‘no tone’ actually has rules that can change the way a character or bigram is spoken. The way the 5th Chinese tone is used in spoken Chinese… Read More
Many people think that they have “bad memories”, but did you know that most people have strikingly similar memory capacities? 1The way that we use our memories is far more important than our brain’s genetic makeup. Forgetting how to write a Chinese character that you’ve studied before happens so often for Chinese learners. Even native… Read More
Although there are many similarities between punctuation in written Chinese and English, there are some interesting additions within the Chinese language To write using Chinese characters and punctuation using your computer or mobile phone, you need to set up a Chinese keyboard on your device. You can find out how to do this on our… Read More
Get to grips with expressing actions and ‘finished’ actions in Chinese by following these sentence patterns and example sentences. We’ll look at suffixes you can use to complete an action and how to create negative action sentences. Performing an Action To describe how an action is performed or how it was performed in the past,… Read More
It will only take [est_time] to read this post! Traditional Chinese characters 繁体字/繁體字 (fán tǐ zì) can be considered any Chinese character that were not modified or ‘simplified’ during the 1950s and 60s. The mainland of China now uses Simplified Chinese characters, also known as 简体字 (jiǎn tǐ zì). The 体字 (tǐ zì) that can… Read More