Using Audacity to Practice Chinese

Take your Chinese learning to the next step with Audacity

2013-05-20

‘Pin Die’ meets ‘Keng Die’

Two Chinese slangs with the word father: compare, and swindle. Does this sound like your fatherly relationships?

2013-05-16

Practicing Tones: Adding tone marks (w/o Pinyin) above characters

Let the computer mark the tones for you

2013-05-13

Radical Radicals

An intro to radicals, the building blocks of characters

2013-05-10

Three Idioms for the Dog Eat Dog World

A few chengyu to help you get by in this brutal world

2013-05-09

A Chronicle of Chinese Dialects: Phonemica

A project to document China’s disappearing dialects

2013-05-08

Untapped Potential and Promising

A chengyu for a bright future

2013-05-07

Pictorial Chinese Characters

Memorize via visual imagery, Chinese characters made easy

2013-05-06

Zhuang Zhou Meng Die, The Butterfly Dream

Learn about the idiom, the story, and the philosophy behind it

2013-05-03

On the Character 喜

From rain to morning sickness, a character to brighten your day

2013-05-02

Learning the right Chengyu the right way

Chengyu can be difficult to learn. Read some advice on tackling these idiomatic and fixed expressions!

2013-04-24

Vocab: Blood Relatives: Update

Don’t let the Chinese kinship terms drive you crazy

2013-04-18