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187 - Student Q&A, March 2024: Reading aloud, finding word boundaries, and working actively with reading materials
Season 1 Episode 187
How can you improve your ability to read aloud in Chinese? How can you learn to see where a word starts and ends in a text? And how can you make sure…
1 year, 11 months ago
186 - Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass review: Understand more, learn faster, remember longer
Season 1 Episode 186
Mastering Chinese characters, whether you find them enchantingly beautiful or overwhelmingly complex, is essential for literacy in Chinese. Outlier L…
1 year, 11 months ago
185 - The Hacking Chinese guide to Mandarin tones, part 3: Learning to hear and say tones
Season 1 Episode 185
Learning to hear and pronounce the tones in Mandarin as an adult learner can be tricky, but with the right methods, anyone can do it!
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1 year, 11 months ago
184 - The Hacking Chinese guide to Mandarin tones, part 2: How important are tones?
Season 1 Episode 184
Are perfect tones necessary to communicate in Chinese? Or can you ignore tones and still be understood? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between?
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1 year, 11 months ago
183 - The Hacking Chinese guide to Mandarin tones, part 1: What are tones?
Season 1 Episode 183
Learning tones is a unique challenge for most learners of Chinese. What are tones? How important is it to learn tones? And how do you learn to both h…
2 years ago
182 - Student Q&A, February 2024: Typing or handwriting, using new words in texts, and how to use AI to improve your writing
Season 1 Episode 182
Is it better to practise writing Chinese on a computer or by hand? How do you find the right words when writing? And how can you leverage AI to impro…
2 years ago
181 - Listen more and learn more by building a personal Chinese audio library
Season 1 Episode 181
The more you listen, the more you learn, but listening more is not as easy as it sounds. By building a personal Chinese audio library, you ensure tha…
2 years ago
180 - 8 great ways to scaffold your Chinese listening and reading
Season 1 Episode 180
Listening and reading in Chinese can be a challenge, especially when your level is not high enough. To understand more and thereby also learn more, u…
2 years ago
179 - Best of Hacking Chinese 2023
Season 1 Episode 179
In 2023, I published one article and one podcast episode every week. Which was the best article? The most popular podcast episode? Let’s summarise th…
2 years ago
178 - Student Q&A: Chinese music, too much Mandarin in the classroom, and listening
Season 1 Episode 178
Is listening to music a good way to learn Chinese? How can you learn to understand Mandarin spoken in noisy environments? And what if your teacher sp…
2 years, 1 month ago