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313 - Why you should listen to the Hacking Chinese Podcast
Season 1 Episode 313
Listening to a podcast about learning Chinese is not the same as learning Chinese, so why spend your limited time on the Hacking Chinese Podcast?
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3 days, 13 hours ago
312 - The Chinese iceberg: Why speaking more isn’t enough to speak better
Season 1 Episode 312
90% of an iceberg is underwater, yet we mostly pay attention to the bit that sticks up. The same is true for proficiency in Chinese: speaking ability…
1 week, 4 days ago
311 - New book: Hacking Chinese: The Snake Collection
Season 1 Episode 311
I have published a book! It's called Hacking Chinese: the Snake Collection and contains articles I wrote in 2025, the Year of the Snake. The articles…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
310 - 30 minutes of podcast, 3 minutes of Chinese
Season 1 Episode 310
Most learners know they should “listen more”, but what they listen to matters. To improve, you need to make sense of spoken Mandarin, not listen to p…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
309 - Dealing with Chinese characters you keep mixing up
Season 1 Episode 309
When we first start learning Chinese, each new character is hard to learn, but as we learn more, it gets easier. But a new problem soon appears: Mixi…
1 month ago
308 - How much Chinese should you listen to every day?
Season 1 Episode 308
Listening is the most important skill. To improve your listening ability in Chinese, you need to listen a lot, but how much should you listen every d…
1 month, 1 week ago
307 - How technology can stop you from learning Chinese
Technology can make learning Chinese easier, but only if it helps you engage more with the language. Used poorly, the same tools can get in the way o…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
306 - How technology can make learning Chinese easier
Season 1 Episode 306
Technology can make learning Chinese easier, not by doing the learning for you, but by helping you spend more time on what actually matters: listenin…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
305 - When spaced repetition fails, and what to do about it
Season 1 Episode 305
Spaced repetition software is designed to delay reviews as long as possible without letting you forget. For learning Chinese, though, barely remember…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
304 - How to make Chinese easier by using mnemonics and memory techniques
Season 1 Episode 304
Mnemonics are clever memory techniques that can be used to memorise everything from decks of cards to speeches, but how do you use them to learn Chin…
2 months ago