Author Archive | Muyen Peng

4 Resources for Learning Mandarin Chinese While You Sleep

As a Chinese language learner, you don’t take one minute for granted. You’re reading, writing and speaking in Chinese as much as you can. You just wish you had more time! Well, you do. It turns out that your nightly …

Give Compliments or Dish Dirt: 25+ Adjectives to Describe a Person in Chinese

You’re pretty, you’re tall, you’re smart, you’re this, you’re that. Every language has its own extensive list of vocabulary for describing someone, both in terms of personality and appearance. Learn some of these key terms, and you can greet your …

9 Super Useful Chinese Phrasebooks You Can Get Digitally

衛生間在哪裡？(wèishēngjiān zài nǎlǐ?) This is how you would say, “Where is the restroom?” in Mandarin. That is just one of the hundreds of Chinese phrases, among asking for directions and any kind of assistance, that can come in …

41 Chinese Video Resources for Learning Real-world Conversation at Any Level

Have you ever heard of Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule that theorizes that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master a subject? Well, this rule can be applied to language learning, since it requires a ton of practice—but …

Break with Tradition: 6 Chinese Online Courses That Don’t Limit You to One Script

You’ve already decided to learn Mandarin Chinese. But you’ve got another big decision to make. Life would be much simpler if Mandarin Chinese came in one, uniform written language. You know, where you could learn one easy alphabet and …