How Mandarin is actually learned
Long pieces on method: what tones really are, why word counts mislead, how review scheduling works, and what an examination does and does not measure. Written by the editorial team, reviewed before publication, and revised rather than quietly deleted.
母语是法语的人怎么学汉语
French gives you one of the hardest Mandarin vowels for free, and then takes back the interest with phrase-final stress, a missing h, and twelve years of conjugation habits. An honest inventory for francophone learners.
Sofia Ouazzani · 2026年7月27日 · 阅读 6 分钟
母语是阿拉伯语的人怎么学汉语
Your first language is not a neutral starting point. Some of what Arabic gave you is a genuine head start in Mandarin — and some of it will quietly produce the same three errors for years. Here is an honest inventory of both.
Nadia Haddad · 2026年7月13日 · 阅读 6 分钟
汉语没有动词变位，难就难在这里
No tenses, no persons, no agreement, no irregular verbs. The relief lasts about three weeks. Then you discover that what replaces conjugation is a system of aspect, time words and context that is genuinely harder than an endings table.
Sofia Ouazzani · 2026年6月1日 · 阅读 6 分钟
什么时候可以不看拼音
Pinyin does several jobs well and one job badly: sitting under characters forever. Why annotated text quietly prevents reading, what pinyin is genuinely for, and a five-step ladder off it that does not throw you into the deep end.
Sofia Ouazzani · 2026年2月23日 · 阅读 6 分钟
量词的难题：个不是万能的
You cannot count a noun in Chinese without a measure word, and the general-purpose one covers less ground than beginners hope. The dozen that handle most of daily life, the traps inside them, and how to store a measure word so it arrives with the noun.
Nadia Haddad · 2026年1月26日 · 阅读 5 分钟
汉字怎样才记得住
Most people who "cannot remember characters" are trying to memorise something they have never analysed. Components, phonetic series, mnemonics that hold up against mnemonics that collapse — and an honest account of where copying by hand still earns its place.
Mehdi Chraïbi · 2026年1月12日 · 阅读 7 分钟
简体还是繁体：你该学哪一种？
Not a verdict but a decision procedure. Which regions use which script, why reading across is much cheaper than writing across, the one-to-many mapping that trips learners up (后/後, 干/乾/幹), and how to choose based on where you actually intend to be.
Mehdi Chraïbi · 2025年12月29日 · 阅读 8 分钟
怎样学好汉语声调
Tones are not decoration and they are not an accent you can add later — they are part of the word. Here is why they feel impossible at first, and a practice protocol built on minimal pairs, tone pairs and recording yourself.
Nadia Haddad · 2025年11月3日 · 阅读 7 分钟
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