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Webinar: “How to get a job in China?”
Hutong School got in contact to let me know about a webinar they’re running on Thursday 24th May 2012, titled How to get a job in China? Unnecessary question marks aside, it looks like it should be...
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Similar hanzi list and Anki deck
Similar Chinese characters cause problems for every learner of the language. Hanzi are a complex enough writing system as it is, without throwing in little hurdles like 日 and 曰 being totally different...
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Chinese Grammar Wiki Anki decks
John Pasden at AllSet Learning has kindly let me take content from the Chinese Grammar Wiki and make Anki decks with it. I’m planning to go through all of the language levels A1 – B2 and make Anki...
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Useful Chinese learning search functions
This page lets your browser add search functions for various websites that are useful for learning Chinese. The way this works varies from browser to browser, but here’s how to do it in Firefox: 1. Go...
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The Skritter iOS app is out… Please make an Android one!
The Skritter iOS app is now out! I’ll just repost the info from their page, looks good: It looks pretty awesome, anyway. If I used Apple stuff I’d definitely be right on this. But I’m actually not a...
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Hutong School webinar: “Demystifying Mandarin”
Another webinar from Hutong School! Following the success of their “How to get a job in China” webinar, Hutong School are planning another. Webinar: “Demystifying Mandarin” Content Facts and figures...
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Learning facts and Chinese at the same time
As well as using it to study languages, I also use Anki to learn various facts and information about the world. I have cards about history, science, geography and so on, and these are in the same deck...
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Anki tip: Use models (other than basic)
It seems that the majority of Anki users never get beyond using the basic model that decks are set up with by default. This is a shame, because models are not only a huge time saver, but also make Anki...
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Hutong School webinar: “What’s in a Chinese name?”
Hutong School are running a webinar titled “What’s in a Chinese name?” on 23rd October 2012. Webinar – What’s in a Chinese name? Content: Structure, origin and transliteration of Chinese names...
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Hutong School webinar: “Chinese for Dummies”
Another webinar at Hutong School, this time titled Chinese for Dummies. Their description: Always been intrigued by the Chinese language whenever you bump into Chinese characters? We most certainly...
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Book review: Tuttle Reading and Writing Chinese
The publishers of ‘Tuttle Reading and Writing Chinese‘ were kind enough to send me a copy to review, so I’ve written up my thoughts on the book here.‘Reading and Writing Chinese’ bills itself as “a...
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