Tag: Mandarin Chinese
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Getting tired of studying Chinese
I’m sure that if you don’t do something for a while, that’s a sign you’re probably tired of it. So goes my Chinese studies. Today is May 5th and I’m only ten days away from my HSK 4 test. My teacher and I have been going through the grammar points in my textbooks in preparation…
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An update on learning Chinese (End of December 2020)
With only a few days left in December I think it’s fair to say that I’ve failed in my goal to finish the HSK 5 books by the end of this month. It would be a stellar achievement to be able to flip through the books and say that I know the necessary characters, words…
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Speaking Chinese Class
I’ve had a few Chinese teachers since I first arrived in China back in 2014 and just about all of them have been good for what I was looking for at the time. Some I studied with for only a few months, others I stayed with for longer. My current Chinese teacher, whom I meet…
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Some thoughts on learning Mandarin Chinese
While going through some old posts I came across the post I wrote almost two years ago in which I declared my intent to improve my Mandarin Chinese. That post, published on December 9th, 2018, stated that I would try to achieve the level of HSK 4 or 5 within a year and was inspired…
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Stepping up to HSK 5
As we enter into the second half of 2020 and a restart of work, I thought it would be a good time to step things up a little. And it’s with that that I finally ordered the HSK 5 books. The new target level is 2500 words TOTAL, which means I now have to learn…