This means that often the meaning of a sentence is not just understood through the words alone, but through the context in which it is used. There are many times when the listener needs to understand what is meant without…
You know the old adage: a little bit, frequently, is better than a lot, every now and then. And this is particularly true when it comes to learning Chinese. Because Chinese is a character-based language and relies so heavily on…
Chinese characters are notoriously intimidating, at first glance resembling a jumble of messy squiggles to the uninitiated eye. For a while, I believed the conventional wisdom that Chinese characters must be memorized one by one, and that an exceptionally strong…
Mandarin Chinese is often classified as a hard language to learn. But it is also much more than that: it is a tool to get a glimpse of China’s cultural code. There are reasons why words, expressions, and grammar came…