A list of 173 Chinese economic terms, including only general economic vocabulary and excluding specialist terms. TXT, CSV, Skritter formats available. → Read more
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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  Leave a comment  普通话  China, countries, grammar, jokes, question words, questions, vocabulary, 中文, 什么, 普通话, 谁 
Japan in Japanese is Nihon. The hiragana for this are にほん, and the kanji are 日本. If you’re a beginner, learn a little bit about Japanese and its writing system. → Read more 
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 
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 
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 
Adding example sentences and studying them repeatedly with SRS is by far the most effective way to learn Chinese measure words (aka classifiers). → Read more 
Some ramblings about the term ‘外国人’ not actually being equivalent to ‘foreigner’ in English. I think it might more often refer to just ‘white people’. → Read more
A comprehensive vocabulary list containing the authors, titles and content of all of the poems in the 300 Tang Poems collection (唐詩三百首). → Read more 
A simple PHP script that takes a random line from a tab-separated vocab file and sends it as a ‘word of the day’ email. It’s ideal for running with cron on a webserver. → Read more |
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