SENSIBLE CHINESE · THE ARCHIVE
10 Things I Wish I Knew
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. If you are a native English speaker learning a European language for the most part you can look at writing in that language...
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10 Things I Wish I Knew
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese series to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. Every single character in Chinese, both Traditional and Simplified, is made up of around 200 small “pieces”...
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10 Things I Wish I Knew
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. Chinese grammar is highly “pattern-based”. Learn these patterns and you’ll be able to communicate much...
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10 Things I Wish I Knew
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. Update: Our free Sensible Pinyin Course is now available. First read through this article to see why Pinyin is so important...
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10 Things I Wish I Knew
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. Why learn Chinese? Specifically, why are you learning Chinese? Do you have a good reason? Starting to learn Chinese...
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10 Things I Wish I Knew
You’ve just started learning Chinese and are ready to talk – this article gives you a basic script (with recordings) as well as suggestions for a Chinese name. You’ll learn how to speak Chinese today, right now, if you follow through...
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10 Things I Wish I Knew
This is part of our How to Learn Chinese. Check out the How to Learn Chinese homepage to get a lot more tips on how to learn Chinese. How to speak Chinese is a question that baffles learners early in their Chinese journey. Often we wait until we think...
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10 Things I Wish I Knew
This article looks at 10 Things I Wish I knew from Day 1 about How to Learn Chinese! Chinese is no more difficult than any other foreign language. It is, however, more time consuming – see this article for my thoughts on this. The “difficult”...
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10 Things I Wish I Knew
Chinese Tones are one of the most challenging aspects of Chinese. The good news is that with enough practice, like any skill, you’ll be able to master Chinese Tones. Additionally, you already use tones in English, just in a very different way to...
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