Memorisation of material is a big part of many people’s approach to learning Chinese. Some aspects of memorisation are essential: seeking out ways to enforce and retain what you’re learning in the long term is important. If you don’t do that, learning Chinese will be like trying to hold a growing quantity of sand in your hands. In other ways, though, memorisation can be a bad approach.
Tag: Pronunciation
A simple test for your Chinese study methods
How do you know if your Chinese study methods are good ones? It’s a simple question, and there are some intuitive answers. You might ask any of the following to gauge how effective your learning methods are:
How to Learn to Write Chinese: The Method
The final article in this series on how to learn to write Chinese covers the actual method I would recommend for learning to write Chinese characters. If you haven’t already, read the other two articles first.
How to Learn to Write Chinese: Key Concepts
Once you’ve read the introduction on how to learn to write Chinese, it’s time to get on with learning the essential concepts. This is the middle article in my series on how to learn to write Chinese. The whole series has three posts which I’d recommend you read in order.
Set Up Lifelong Chinese Character Learning in 10 Minutes
With just ten minutes of work, you can set yourself up with a Chinese character learning system that will keep your hanzi up to scratch for a lifetime. Here’s how.
5 Lies Teachers Tell You About Mandarin Tones
Mandarin tones are one of the classic “difficult parts” of the language. Despite that, textbooks and teachers often do a bad job of teaching them. A big part of this is that the focus is too often on teaching tones, rather than teaching how to learn tones.
Improve Your Chinese By: Speaking Slowly
Time for some unusual advice: try to speak Chinese slower, rather than faster. Most advice you see about learning languages encourages you to go for “fluency” and speaking as much as possible. There is some merit to this – it is of course good to get in a lot of speaking practice.
Chinese Culture: Winter Solstice Festival (冬至)
The Chinese Winter Solstice Festival has come this year. It is a festival even equivalent to the New Year in the past, telling people that the winter days have come formally. Today, I will introduce the Winter Solstice Festival.
Alchemy
Alchemy was a special superstitious art practiced in ancient China, also known as "the golden touch". The basic idea of alchemy was to make divine pills that could make human beings "live forever" and turn common metals like copper and iron into gold and silver.
Grammar — Subject-Predicate Phrases 主谓短语
The subject may be the object of the statement and it is often a noun or pronoun. The predicate tends to make a statement in regards to the subject and is generally a verb or adjective. No function words are utilized between the subject and predicate. The majority of the words you mentioned contain it. For instance:
English 
French 
German 
Malay 
Thai 
Vietnamese 
Myanmar