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Phonetic Sets in Chinese Characters
Is immersion the answer to all language learning problems?
Year of the Snake!
Introducing HanziCraft
Chinese Character Challenge – Level up!
I’m in Taiwan!
Taiwan 2013
ChineseCUBES Review: A Novel Way To Start Learning Chinese
The Dark Side of 玄
Radicals sorted by their first occurrence in HSK
Gangnam Style hits Beijing with hilarious Laowai Style [Video]
HanziJS gets updated. Now with more decomposition data!
9 Essential Digital Tools for Chinese Learners
Batman of Shanghai
10 Really Interesting and Cool Chinese Characters
What do you know if you learned the most frequent Chinese characters?
Call me Maybe in Chinese
FluentFlix first impressions plus beta invites!
Introducing Chinese 3D
Review of Yoyo Chinese
Languages on the Internet [Infographic]
The misty haze of Chinese dialects
Crazy English! Where are the unorthodox Mandarin techniques?
The Four Strands of Language Learning
Duolingo Launches
Skritter for iPhone launches
Onomatopoeia in Chinese
5 ways Chinese radicals are sub-consciously trolling you
Mandarin Madness Review – A Chinese Vocabulary Learning App
BreakFAST! – An entertaining Taiwanese shortcom
A visit from Beijing JiaoTong University and how 姜 trolled me
Introducing Leiden Weibo Corpus
Giving ChinesePod the deserved listen
Benny’s 3-Month Mandarin Mission: A Follow Up
Clear the Stage for Banmaxian《斑马线来了》- Hit Chinese Web series by Feichang Fresh member
Introducing Hanzi – A Character Decomposition Tool
Introducing 3000Hanzi
Logograms, mysticism and why people get terrible Chinese tattoos
Introducing ChineseLevel – Test your Chinese Reading
Chinese Characters in the Wild
Omnipotent Youth Society – 万能年青旅店
On Learning Chinese in 3 Months
Chinese Ligatures
Tonally Orthographic Pinyin
Chinese Rage Comics
A Chiptune Song I wrote while travelling in Shanghai
Confused Laowai blog turns two years old
So what color is 青 really? Blue? Green? Help!
Pinyin Sudoku
Chinese Test Fail
Big Update to Social Mandarin
Introducing Chinese Basics
I have a drinking problem
Oddities in Chinese: Hanyu Pinyin Syllables
Doing SRS the fun way
Now with more Social Media & Beer
Defining the Sinosphere
The Epic Adventures of Princess Moonface
Revisiting SRS and Flashcards
Tencent’s Intelligent Eye Appears
Radtacular Radicals
The plight of Hollywood Chinese
Feichang Fresh on repeat
Xiamen Impressions
Social Mandarin Redesign is live
Translation in Chinese: An experiment in Chinese & SEO
Feeling a bit stuck and lost
Shanghai Impressions
Useful Chinese I picked up while in China
Two More Language Stories from China Travels
China Round 2: My Language Experience
China Round 2: The Experience
Back from China
Chinese Superman Comics
Update on trip to China
Bitcoin in China – 比特币
Mandarin Poster Review
My Mandarin research assignment
Flights are booked for China
The Illusion of Language Learning
A rant on Chinese’s Easy Grammar
Chinese-Ordered English
Social Mandarin Newsletter
Travelling to China
Lingomi’s RPG Scorecard Chinese Proficiency Assesment
Super Junior M – 太完美
Tonal Languages and Perfect Pitch
Chinese signs and its linguistic landscape
The most spontaneous Chinese I’ve spoken was to a Laowai
The strange abyss of Chinese Characters
If you want an SRS program, Skritter is the way to go
Your Mandarin Learning Experience
2010: A Year in Review
Quick Social Mandarin Update
Cui Jian’s Greenhouse Girl (花房姑娘)
Is Chinese a good choice for your first foreign language?
Interview with La Loupe
Critical Frequency Experiment
Flashcards and Second Language Acquisition
Social Mandarin Widget
L-Lingo Review
The Craziest Chinese Poem I’ve Seen
MDBG now with more Jukuu
How do you learn vocabulary?
On Being A Laowai
The Weirdest (and most beautiful) Chinese Idiom I’ve Seen
My Future in Mandarin
My Chinese Textbooks for University
HSK Tests in my Future
Laowai Speaking Chinese on Youtube
Blogs and Dictionaries
Learning Chinese through Watching TV
Laowai Chinese Music
How long does it take to learn Chinese?
Holiday Time
Watch out for the learning trap!
You know you’re progressing in Mandarin when…
My Trip to Beijing June ’09
Soccer World Cup South Africa
Google Chrome Translator Plugin – Zhongwen
5 Mistakes I made when I started learning Chinese
The Tipping Point
Watch Chinese TV Online
Online Mandarin Dictionaries
Social Mandarin Testing
Mandarin Blog Roundup
Free Chinese Dictionary for Symbian Phones
Back at University 回到大学
Anki Flashcards
Getting creative with 汉字
My Favourite Chinese Expression 我的最喜欢的言辞
LiWei Art
Back in January
Google Wave and #MandarinMonday
Welcome 欢迎!