Some people can read books with noise while others need absolute silence.  Some people can sleep with noise others need absolute silence.  Do you work in a noisy environment?  If so how do you work with all he noise?

Anyone here on Wechat? Easy way to contact your friends, specially those in China since its the most popular messaging platform there.  But maybe you don’t want people to find you so maybe this isn’t something for you.

I used to play tennis when I was a kid and It was hard work.  This skill became useful when I started playing ping-pong.  Learning Chinese is hard work but I’m sure it will be useful wherever you go in life.

Something about coffee that helps you get things done.  So get your coffee and get some Chinese learning done!

How many national parks have you been to? Too many to count?  Some like Yellowstone are mysterious places with so much nature to see.  Some are smaller but still very awe inspiring.  So why not grab some friends and family and go camping while studying some Chinese!  Nothing like looking at nature and looking at Chinese characters. Look at the word for mountain 山, doesn’t it look like a mountain?

Is there such a thing as an easy language to learn?  Maybe because you know Portuguese you may find that Spanish is easier than Chinese.  If you know Korean or Japanese you may find that Chinese may be easier to learn than German.  Easier doesn’t mean its easy and learning a language is no easy task no matter how familiar one is.  Even mastering one’s mother tongue is a huge task in itself.  That’s why we take it one bite at a time.  So let’s go!

Are you the type of investor to invest in stocks or mutual funds?  Do you like to take a lot of risk?  Maybe you value sleep and don’t want to be up all night thinking if one of your investments will go south.  Well, this lesson is not about investment but investing in learning Chinese is very valuable. Continuing to in invest a little time each day in Chinese will have a huge payoff in the future!

Buying a car can be a hassle with having to go to different dealers and trying to get the best deal ever.  Here we will learn to deal with two verb phrases and putting them together.  There will be plenty of examples of this due to how in Chinese you can just put them together and still be grammatically correct.

Have you done your taxes?  Not to worry, there’s still plenty of time.  Taxes can be a complicated undertaking but with software these days it can be done at a relatively cheaper quicker way.  This lesson is about using 完了.  You’ve seen it before but lets focus on its uses.