I have been doing a little bit of practice with 'Hello Chinese' most days for a little while now. Didn't do any when I was on a trip last week, but starting to practice again. I was doing two lessons …
Hello Chinese and Chinese Skill for learning characters
I have also used Memrise, one of the courses on radicals. Should probably go through that again. As Joseph said, Skritter is supposed to be good, but I haven’t used it much. There are two apps that …
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Hello Chinese App Update ~1/3 Complete
I came back to using 'Hello Chinese', had mentioned it before on this website. There were some bugs, some of which have been fixed. The main one that I have noticed is that the speaking exercises …
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How to Translate 加油 to English? (And how not to)
A common Chinese phrase, 加油，seems to often be translated into English in ways that do not really make sense. Here are a couple of options that work, there are other ways to say something with a …
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How do you say “I speak Chinese” in Chinese?
Since you're asking this question, I'm going to assume you don't speak much Chinese. And since you asked how to "say", I will give you some pinyin instead of just the characters. I would say …
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“How far do Chinese Skill and Hello Chinese get you in Mandarin Chinese?”
I have used both, got farther with Chinese Skill (got it first). That depends on how much time you spend using them and how deep you go. Will those apps alone make you fluent in Mandarin? No. But can …
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