[Guest Post] How can I learn Chinese Quickly?

My first foray into a foreign language wasn’t pretty. I sat down for a few weeks with an audio-visual course which was one part picture book, one part audio CD. The course was painstakingly slow, and I couldn’t help but think that the words and phrases I was learning weren’t all that relevant to real-world[…]

[Guest Post] Why Context is Crucial when Learning Chinese

  The importance of context in Chinese language learning We all know that learning Chinese is not too easy, particularly for westerners who are not used to entirely different symbols and language structures. Reading is usually the first thing students try to figure out, but it’s challenging and time-consuming if you rely solely on your[…]