Tag: Chinese characters
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Mandarin Poster: The Evolution of a Vital Chinese Learning Tool
I’ve been a huge fan of Mandarin Poster for a while, but I have to say that the recent website redesign and the expanding line of resources in the past year has taken me by surprise. It has quietly exploded from a simple helpful resource into a website with the potential to change the Chinese…
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You Can Read Academic Japanese
Oftentimes reading academic articles in a foreign language can be a rather intimidating task, but this may come as a surprise: reading academic articles in Japanese is actually pretty easy. Well, okay it does have two little prerequisites: a decent familiarity with Chinese characters and a basic understanding of Japanese grammar. This is nothing a…
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[Book Review] Chinese For Beginners
Tuttle Publishing graciously supplied this book for me to take a look at and review. Below are my thoughts on the book. Mastering Conversation Chinese: Chinese for Beginners By: Yi Ren and Xiayuan Liang (2012, Tuttle Publishing) There’s quite a large number of Chinese textbooks on the market nowadays, so finding the perfect one is a…