How much time are you investing into learning Chinese? Most people don't actually know the answer to this question! Why is it a good idea to log your Chinese learning and how should you go about it?

Link: Chinese language logging, part 1: Why and how to track your progress: https://www.hackingchinese.com/chinese-language-logging-part-1-why-and-how-to-track-your-progress

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Clear pronunciation makes communicating in Chinese much easier; the time to level up your pronunciation is now

Link to announcement: It's time to level up your Chinese pronunciation: https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-hacking-chinese-pronunciation-course-is-finally-here/

Link to course front page: Hacking Chinese Pronunciation: Speaking with Confidence: https://www.hackingchinese.com/courses/mandarin-chinese-pronunciation-course/

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There are many ways of looking up Chinese characters you don't know, but which is the best for students?

Link: How to look up Chinese characters you don’t know

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It's not uncommon for both students and teachers to treat Chinese pronunciation and Pinyin as the same thing, but they are not, and thinking that they are can lead to certain problems.

Link: What's the difference between Chinese pronunciation and Pinyin? Does it matter?

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There are many different kinds of input methods available for Chinese, such as typing, handwriting, and speech to text, but which is the best for language learners, and why?

Link: Learning the second tone in Mandarin Chinese

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There are many different kinds of input methods available for Chinese, such as typing, handwriting, and speech to text, but which is the best for language learners, and why?

Link: Chinese input methods: A guide for second language learners

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Many students say that listening is the hardest part of learning Chinese, not speaking, reading or writing. Why is that? Could it be that listening in Chinese is actually harder than in many other languages?

Link: Why is listening in Chinese so hard?

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Many websites, apps and other resources for learning Chinese use colours to highlight tones, but does using colours really make tones  easier to learn?

Link: Does using colour to represent Mandarin tones make them easier to learn?

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Reading is the best way to expand vocabulary and learn about new things, but how should you approach reading in Chinese? And what are the best free reading resources out there?

Link: The 10 best free Chinese reading resources for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners

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Have you ever tried to do something in Chinese you thought would be fairly easy, only to find out it was much harder than you thought? Well, you're not alone!

Link: 6 things in Chinese that are harder to learn than they seem

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