If you’re planning to take the HSK, the key to success is knowing the right characters and words for your level.
The HSK or the 汉语水平考试 (hàn yǔ shuǐ píng kǎo shì) is the official Chinese proficiency test, and it …
Brooke Bagley
If you’re looking for the best resources to learn Chinese, then you don’t even have to search far.
A lot of them are right at your fingertips—and easily accessible online.
There are tons of amazing websites that’ll help you master …
Em Casalena
If you’re learning Chinese, you might discover the many ways native Mandarin speakers can express gratitude beyond bowing or the basic 谢谢 (xiè xiè) — “Thank you.”
We’ll show you seven useful words and phrases to say “thank you” in …
Sheena Dizon
Imagine learning a language with no cases, genders or tenses. Sound too good to be true?
Then let me take it up a notch by throwing a simple grammar system into the mix.
Now it really sounds like I’m …
Sheena Dizon
There’s so much to uncover with the Chinese language, in both its written and spoken forms.
I’ve lived in China for the majority of my life and I still learn new things every day.
If you find Chinese as mysterious …
Sheena Dizon
You’ve probably come across tons of vocabulary lists, with one simple translation per character or word.
But if you have any experience with the language, Chinese characters rarely have a singular definition.
On top of that, characters can take on …
Sheena Dizon
Ever heard of the Chinese de?
It may sound like the exclamation “duh” in English, but it’s something slightly more complicated in Chinese.
The Chinese de isn’t just some simple utterance, but rather, an important (and nuanced) element of Chinese …
