Good evening, everyone. I’ve just been reading an alarming news story over at The Chairman’s Bao, which has graded Chinese-language articles for learners of Hanyu. It is a story about a Miss Tang, an internet celebrity who was badly burned at a coffee shop. It is graded at Level 3 and I am most definitely…
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I coloured my consonants
I’ve been up all night doing Chinese, because I couldn’t tear myself away. Because I am memorising all these characters, using the Heisig method (I’m nominally up to 250 characters now), I’m very interested in memory aids and techniques. Some people use a coded system of four colours to remember the different tones (dīng versus dǐng,…
ChinesePod: Newbie: Good Morning
This post is to record that I’ve studied the lesson titled Good Morning. I’m new to ChinesePod and liking it, the recordings are really clear. I can understand the spoken dialogue no problem but I’m less confident about my ability to reliably recognise all the characters. Words to remember: 早上 zǎoshang …
The Hanyu You Want 