Blog Tag - Learning Chinese

Mandarin Month: How Important is Stroke Order When Learning Chinese?
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 Monday: How to Buy Tickets and Take a Train in China
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where – similar to our Mandarin Month series earlier this year – we help you improve your Chinese by detailing fun...
Donald Trump's 4-Year-Old Granddaughter Speaks Better Chinese Than You Do
Video clips of Donald Trump's 4-year-old granddaughter speaking Chinese are taking the Chinese Internet by storm. RELATED: How to Talk About the US...
The Visitor's (and Beginner's) Guide to Survival Chinese: Greetings and the Basics
So you’re passing through Beijing. Or you’ve finally decided to crawl out of your cave and get in touch with the exciting linguistic world around you...
Welcome to China, Where Everyone is Your Family
One of the most interesting things about the Chinese language and culture is how everyone greets and speaks to each other as if they were directly...
Experience: Learning Chinese at Culture Yard in Beixinqiao
Tomorrow. I’ll definitely do it tomorrow. And so begins the perpetual carrot-on-a-stick endeavor that is learning Mandarin, the bounty from hours of...
The Difference Quality Chinese Teachers Make
My husband and I have taken turns attending Chinese classes at Keats School in Kunming for over four years now. Keats has students from all over...
George's Guide to Living in China Without Learning Chinese
We’ve all met him: the foreigner who’s lived in China for years but doesn’t speak a lick of Chinese. How does he do it? How does he remain, against...
Three Online Learning Platforms for Improving Your Mandarin
Whether you want to maintain your Chinese during the summer months while away from Beijing’s sweltering heat or want to continue learning Chinese...
Learning Chinese? Why Not Live The Language?
It is the Catch-22 that faces every laowai that ever tried to learn Chinese. Until you learn enough Chinese, you can’t use it at work or make...