By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on May 9th, 2013
A list of 173 Chinese economic terms, including only general economic vocabulary and excluding specialist terms. TXT, CSV, Skritter formats available. → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on April 17th, 2013
A little joke about the behaviour of various countries shows how Chinese question words are very versatile and easy to use, e.g. 谁 is “who” and “whoever”. → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on April 2nd, 2013
Install Google Pinyin IME on your Android phone to get daily Chinese handwriting practice. It’s a bit slower than pinyin input, but you’ll remember the hanzi. → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on February 28th, 2013
I deleted the pinyin field from my Mandarin Anki deck because I think I learn better without being able to see pinyin for every sentence. → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on February 25th, 2013
I just came across this list of Mandarin homophones, kind of amusing. The tones of the word pairs are different, but the pronunciation is otherwise the same. → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on February 18th, 2013
If you need another way to practice writing Chinese characters, give Google Translate’s pinyin-generation feature a try. It’s a nice way to practice hanzi. → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on November 19th, 2012
Chinese opposites words are words like 真假, 大小, 左右 and 快慢 etc. where each part is the opposite of the other. They’re pretty interesting and work in a few different ways. → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on October 5th, 2012
Hutong School are running a free webinar on 23rd October 2012, titled “What’s in a Chinese name?”. Head there to register for a place while you can! → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on October 2nd, 2012
A translation of the lyrics for the song 爱情啊 (‘Oh Love’) by the Chinese singer-songwriter 坎坎 (Kan Kan). Includes pinyin transcription. → Read more
By Hugh Grigg (葛修远), on September 7th, 2012
A translation of the lyrics for the song 蒙古精神 (‘The Spirit of Mongolia’) by the Mongolian death metal band 颠覆M (aka Ego Fall). → Read more
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