Podcast Episodes

156 - Hacking Chinese Podcast three-year anniversary Q&A

Season 1 Episode 156

Should you drop everything you’re doing to learn Chinese for one year? How should you approach reading at an intermediate level? And how do you choose the best resources for learning?

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Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

155 - Is Chinese difficult to learn?

Season 1 Episode 155

Is Chinese difficult to learn, even impossible? Or is it in fact quite easy? The answer is that learning Chinese is difficult, but not in the way most people think!

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Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

154 - Timeboxing Chinese: Get more done in less time

Season 1 Episode 154

If you don’t invest the necessary time into learning Chinese, it doesn’t matter how good your method is. Timeboxing is a wonderful way to get more done in less time.

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Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

153 - Insights from the new HSK 7-9: Interview with Sara Jaaksola

Season 1 Episode 153

Are you curious about the new HSK? Do you want to know what it’s really like to take and pass the advanced level? And how should you prepare to ace your own exams?

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

152 - How I learnt Chinese, part 7: Teaching, writing, learning

Season 1 Episode 152

Reaching an advanced level in Chinese is the goal of many learners, but what do you do when you get there? And is there such a thing as being done with Chinese?

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

151 - How narrow reading and listening can help you bridge the gap to real Chinese

Season 1 Episode 151

Varying your diet of Chinese reading and listening practice is often considered good, indeed necessary, but this could be wrong. In some cases, variation makes things too difficult, and then narrow r…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

150 - Seeing through the illusion of advanced Chinese learning

Season 1 Episode 150

Courses and textbooks encourage narrow but advanced proficiency in Chinese, but if you want to be able to communicate well, you need to see through the illusion.

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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

149 - Why travelling isn't the best method to learn Chinese

Season 1 Episode 149

Travelling is often touted as one of the best ways to learn a language, but is it really? What are some downsides of travelling to learn Chinese, and how should you travel to get the most out of it?

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

148 - How I learnt Chinese, part 6: Graduate program in Taiwan

Season 1 Episode 148

I’ve spent two years in a master’s program for teaching Chinese as a second language, designed for native speakers and taught in Chinese. Here’s what I learnt from the experience!

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Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

147 - Learning Chinese with the aid of technology: Interview with Jake Gill from Skritter

Season 1 Episode 147

You probably know what it’s like to use apps for learning Chinese vocabulary, but do you know what it’s like to run a company that builds such apps? And how can technology help us learn more, now and…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago