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.
从三级到四级：那堵墙
Everyone reports the same thing: the first levels came quickly and then progress slowed to a crawl. Nothing has gone wrong. The task changed underneath you, from recognising concrete words to choosing between abstract ones — and the methods that worked before stop working.
Yasmine Berrada · 2026年6月29日 · 阅读 6 分钟
看懂中餐菜单
Chinese dish names are compositional: ingredient plus cut plus method plus flavour. Learn about forty characters and most of a menu becomes readable — including the ones that lie, like the fish dish with no fish in it.
Rania Tazi · 2026年6月15日 · 阅读 6 分钟
职场汉语：从这些词开始
Workplace Chinese is not advanced Chinese. It is a different set of very ordinary words that general courses skip: how you are addressed, what you say to hold the floor in a meeting, and the four lines that make up most internal email.
Omar Benjelloun · 2026年4月6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
留学中国：你真正用得上的汉语
Your first month is not made of conversation about hobbies. It is made of counters, queues, forms, deposits and one very useful verb. The vocabulary of registration day, the dormitory, the bank, the hospital and the classroom, in the order you will need it.
Rania Tazi · 2025年12月15日 · 阅读 11 分钟
汉语间隔重复复习法
How review scheduling actually works, why Chinese needs separate cards for reading, listening and production, and the discipline that keeps a review backlog from burying you.
Sofia Ouazzani · 2025年12月1日 · 阅读 6 分钟
备考 HSK 到底需要多少词汇？
Vocabulary counts are the most quoted and least useful number in Chinese learning. Here is why raw totals mislead, what "knowing a word" actually means across recognition and production, and how to set targets you can act on.
Yasmine Berrada · 2025年11月17日 · 阅读 6 分钟
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