Author Archive | Alan

Learning Mandarin Chinese comes with tons of perks.

The best of these may just be your newly found ability to access Chinese cinema.

As they say, watch what you love and the language will follow (or something like that).…

So you want to learn Chinese.

You’re probably using most of the tools that people use to improve their listening. and you might already be reading most of the popular blogs.

And you might even be watching Chinese …

Chinese fluency is about more than just chengyu, grammar, or even pinyin and tones.

It’s also about learning Chinese culture.

After all, learning Chinese is about establishing a connection.

And there’s no better way to do that …

Learning Chinese can feel like climbing up a cliff.

You’ve got to learn pinyin and Chinese tones, not to mention Chinese characters.

But there are a lots of resources you can use to make it enjoyable.

For example, you …