My Chinese learning experience

When I started learning Mandarine, I got totally overwhelmed. Walked away with a massive headache and overload after every lesson...

Would you want to stay here 16 years back?

I remember in 1989 my parents told me I was to move from my little house in Leeds, UK to a place called Shanghai. Shanghai? Excuse me, where is that? Every weekend I knew that my mum would take me to Mac Donalds for a Fillet o Fish as a treat. That was about to all change...

Writing the characters in a simple way

I have been to China and Japan several times and have always been puzzled by the written language. A language may be "easy" or "tough" in its structure, no arguing about that. But if its graphic representation adds one notch of difficulty, then it's rather discouraging...

Some leaning tips to a newbie

Don't worry about the hanzi for now learn to speak a little first, you don't have to completly ignore them and here are a bunch of computer tools that will help with annotation etc...

How I View Chinese Learning( A US Chinese learner)

Many teachers do not realize the impact they have on their students' lives as teaching, especially in the case of the United States, is a profession too often looked down upon and underappreciated...

2007 HSK test schedule

2007 HSK test schedule

Complete dialog

Complete dialog

HSK introduction

Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) is a national-level test to assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers such as foreigners, overseas Chinese and students of Chinese ethnic minorities.

Grammar Test 1

Grammar Test 1

Some tips of learning Chinese

Do you feel Chinese is killing you? Here are some tips about Chinese learning.