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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese Essentials: Mastering 之 zhī

One of the most common Chinese characters inherited from Classical Chinese is 之. Mastering this character can unlock many difficult idioms, newspaper articles, and Chinese literary texts. 之 is also used to express percentages and fractions. Understanding...

Chinese Phrases with That’s Mandarin: I want to drink a cup of tea

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Chinese Phrases with That’s Mandarin: I want to drink a cup of tea

Today I’m happy to be able to bring you a short beginner’s lesson courtesy of That’s Mandarin. We’ll be introducing Chinese phrases character by character and then combining everything together into a whole. Today we’ll be...

Outlier Linguistics Chinese Dictionary Kickstarter

sensiblechineseMay 15No Comments

Outlier Linguistics Chinese Dictionary Kickstarter

Over the last few weeks we’ve had a couple of articles from Outlier Linguistics about their upcoming Chinese dictionary based on the use of functional components to better understand and remember Chinese characters. Some big news: 1. Outlier Linguistics...

Chinese characters: Functional Components you must know – from Outlier Linguistics

sensiblechineseMay 09 character components, characters, outlier linguistics, writing 1 Comment

Chinese characters: Functional Components you must know – from Outlier Linguistics

Unlocking Chinese Characters with Functional Components – Outlier Linguistics Explains This is a guest post from the folks over at Outlier Linguistics. If you aren’t following them yet then definitely check out their work. They are working...

Learning to Communicate in the Chinese Language: The Do’s and Don’ts

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Learning to Communicate in the Chinese Language: The Do’s and Don’ts

Learning to Communicate in Chinese: The Dos and Don’ts Learning any language is for the majority of us about using it to communicate in a certain, or a number of capacities or situations. For example one person may wish to learn colloquial phrases...

Openwords – Free Language Learning app with Open Data

sensiblechineseApr 28No Comments

Openwords – Free Language Learning app with Open Data

Hi guys, I’m very happy to be able to say that SensibleChinese.com is supporting the Openwords project. I’m helping spread the word and also providing some rewards for Kickstart backers (not visible on the site yet but being added!). Openwords...

Growth Mindset: The Key to Fluency

Christian AcunaApr 27 motivation, study habits 3 Comments

Growth Mindset: The Key to Fluency

When I tell people I am fluent in Chinese, they usually respond by saying that they have always wanted to learn a language, but that they are just naturally bad at languages or don’t have the “language gene.” Many of these people had a negative...

How to Express Your Point of View in Chinese

Christian AcunaApr 222 Comments

How to Express Your Point of View in Chinese

Being able to voice your opinion in Chinese allows you to have deeper conversations with people. There are many ways to express your point of view in Chinese other than just the plain 我觉得 wǒ juédé and 我认为 wǒ rènwéi, which gets repetitive...

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