Tag: Beginner

Looking for a Chinese name but not sure which online resource to trust? As a long-time Chinese learner I tested the most popular and high ranking Chinese name generators to see if they are any good. Most of them aren’t of much use, but I found one exception.

Anyone who learns Chinese inevitably gets a lot of well-intentioned advice thrown their way. I dug into my memory and picked out the very worst advice on learning Chinese in this blog article.

Can the popular language learning app Duolingo get you to the highest levels of Chinese? Here are the reasons why you shouldn’t expect Duolingo to help you reach high level fluency in Mandarin.

How to find online Chinese lessons that are truly worth your time and money? In this blog,…

The bad news: China won’t stop its zero-Covid policy anytime soon (or will it?). The good news: you don’t have to go to China to learn Chinese.