Blog Tag - Learning Chinese

Mandarin Monday: 5 Chinese Words That Should Exist In English
Living in China, chances are that you've acquired a couple of super-useful phrases that just don't quite translate into your native tongue. As...
Mandarin Monday: Chinese Phrases to Know While House Hunting
Apartment hunting is arduous enough under any circumstances. Now imagine doing it in a second language. Thankfully, this trusty list of phrases will...
First Global HSK (Level 7-9) Test Date Announced
You might remember us writing about how the HSK would be getting an overhaul last year, replacing the previous HSK 2.0, which consists of six levels...
Kickstart Your Chinese Character Learning With These 25 Most Common Radicals
It may be tedious, but learning your radicals (偏旁 piān páng) is one of the best "hacks" available to students of Chinese to eventually master the...
Learn How to Speak Like Chinese Animals With These Beastly Onomatopoeia
Animals living in different parts of the world largely all "speak" the same language, yet how we humans hear, write, and vocalize those sounds varies...
Don't End Up a Lightbulb by Mastering These 10 Three-Character Chinese Idioms
Learning Chinese can be a real pain in the pigu. Besides a writing system that shares no common roots with most languages of the Western world, tones...
Meet the Man Who Digests the 'Voice of the Chinese People' Into English
There are dozens of ways to utilize the extra time spent at home during coronavirus lockdown, but for Chinese learners who feel their language skills...
Mandarin Monday: Game of Thrones Names in Chinese
With the last-ever episodes of the ultra-popular HBO series Game of Thrones almost upon us (sob), and popular bars around town packing out every week...
Mandarin Monday: Beijing Accent Guide, 儿Special
It's 3AM, you're in Gulou and you're spent. All you want is to get in a taxi and head home, but the cab driver insists on having a conversation. You...
Mandarin Month: Useful Mandarin Phrases to Get You Through a Trip to the Bank
Going to the bank in China can be very intimidating if you don’t speak Mandarin. When it comes to your finances, you’d probably want to know every...
LTL Mandarin Schools Recommends the Best Apps to Complement Your Mandarin Studies
This post was written by Max Hobbs, the Marketing Manager at LTL Mandarin School. With locations in Beijing and Shanghai, LTL Mandarin School...
Mandarin Month: How to Order a Refreshing, Cold Beer in Chinese (and Other Beer-Related Phrases)
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” These wise words were spoken by the esteemed Benjamin Franklin, one of the leaders of the...
Mandarin Month: Untangling the OBOR Initiative and Belt and Road Forum
In the lead up to our Mandarin Month mixer on June 24 June 25, where you'll be able to meet with Beijing's best Mandarin schools, we'll be dishing...
Mandarin Month: Your Local Lingo Guide to Chiming in About Beijing’s Brick Wars
In the lead up to our Mandarin Month mixer on June 24 June 25, where you'll be able to meet with Beijing's best Mandarin schools, we'll be dishing...
Mandarin Month: How To Make Friends with your Taxi Driver
In the lead up to our Mandarin Month mixer on June 24 June 25, where you'll be able to meet with Beijing's best Mandarin schools, we'll be dishing...