Using Pleco as Your Guide to Daily Life in China
The Pleco app serves as a dictionary for the Chinese learner allowing them to search by pinyin, or by radical. While the dictionary part of the app is free, it…
Check List: Do You Really Use All the Online Tools for Learning Mandarin?
The development of internet technologies has been constantly changing the process of learning a foreign language, but are you sure that you use a maximum of the available online tools?…
Learn How to Study Chinese Bigrams with WCC Bigrams App
The WCC Bigrams App is a flashcard app that drills the learner on the most common two-character Chinese words (bigrams) that show up in written text. It gives you the…
Top Tools to Help You Learn Chinese Pronunciation and Pinyin
How do you know how to pronounce Chinese characters? They don’t have any reliable way to know this by looking at them. Enter the hànyǔ pīnyīn (汉语拼音) alphabet, a phonetic…
Yoyo Chinese Review: Worth the Sticker Price?
Quick Review Summary: YoYo Chinese is an online Mandarin learning platform. They market themselves as a convenient and comprehensive way learning and understanding Mandarin. They offer 6 units, all being…
My Exploring Tour in Sexy Mandarin
Several months ago, I happened to watch a video of Sexy Mandarin. That was the first time I saw this kind of sexy way of learning Chinese. It`s really a…
Specialized Textbooks Geared Toward K12 Students
It’s quite unusual for specialized textbooks to be used in primary and junior high schools in the United States. In fact, the majority of schools do not have uniform textbooks.…
Top Five FaceBook Pages for Learning Chinese
UPDATE: Please note that this post was written in 2013. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE UPDATED Hottest Chinese Learning Facebook Pages. #1: All about Chinese All about Chinese offers various…
How To Find a Suitable Chinese Learning Textbook
A suitable Chinese learning textbook or material can be very useful when you try to learn Mandarin Chinese, and it will help you understand better. In Fact, there are so…