Articles published in June 2023

1. How narrow reading and listening can help you bridge the gap to real Chinese

   

   Varying your diet of Chinese reading and listening practice is often considered good, indeed necessary, for your learning, but this could be wrong. In some cases, variation makes things too difficult, and then narrow reading and listening is a better option!

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2. Seeing through the illusion of advanced Chinese learning

   

   Courses and textbooks encourage narrow but advanced proficiency in Chinese, but if you want to be able to communicate well, you need to see through the illusion.

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3. Why travelling isn’t the best method to learn Chinese

   

   Travelling is often touted as one of the best ways to learn a language, but is it really? What are some downsides of travelling to learn Chinese, and how should you travel to get the most out of it?

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