If you don’t want to read all the below, here are the important links: Learning Mandarin in one Thousand Words Growing up with Chinese Lang-8 Taiwan Digital Publishing System There are so many online language study resources that it requires quite some work to evaluate them and decide which to … Continue reading
Yesterday, I had another conversation in Chinese with a stranger. I was waiting for a friend at a bus stop in Daxi. A woman asked me the usual things: what I do here (wait for a friend), what I study (computer science), how long I’ve been here (I said, “three … Continue reading
As a means of self motivation I am going to publicly keep track of successful conversations in Chinese between myself and one or more strangers. And I already have something to tell! Supermarket Last Wednesday morning I had my first Chinese conversation, which was in a small grocery store buying … Continue reading
I started to learn Chinese a year ago because I felt like learning a new language. I expected it to be challenging, but I also expected to advance faster than I ended up doing. I am still not able to make myself understood not even in the most simple situations. … Continue reading
