Sheena Dizon and 
Em Casalena
If you’re interested in Chinese culture, you might have gotten into it through being captivated by Mandarin-language movies and television shows.
But unfortunately for beginner learners, watching Chinese films authentically usually isn’t possible.
Most Chinese films offer 汉字 (hàn zì)…
Daniel Lal and Sheena Dizon
How many Chinese characters do you need to know to be considered fluent in Chinese?
Or to pass the different HSK test levels?
In this post, we’ll walk you through the importance of Chinese characters and how learning them …
Sheena Dizon and Em Casalena
The smell of the holidays is in the air, whether you’re ready for it or not!
People are decorating for Christmas, prepping for cozy parties and preparing gifts for the ones they love.
And not just in the United States …
Sheena Dizon and Em Casalena
Music is the language of the soul.
But how exactly can an English speaker learn Chinese with songs?
[fluentu-toc]
Watching Taiwanese dramas and listening to …
Sheena Dizon
If I asked you to name the parts of speech, could you name all of them?
Nouns. Verbs. Adjectives. Adverbs. Pronouns. Prepositions. Conjunctions. Determiners. Interjections.
Those are the nine parts of speech that we learned about in school.
I don’t …
Sheena Dizon
One of the easiest ways to make your language skills sound more advanced is by connecting your thoughts using conjunctions like “and.”
Just look at the difference:
I like to eat chicken. I also like to eat beef.
I like …
Did you have breakfast this morning?
No, I definitely didn’t say that I had mayonnaise for breakfast—even though that’s what it might sound like at first!
What I said is that no, I didn’t have breakfast…
