Category: Chinese language
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Learning Traditional Chinese After Simplified
I calculated that 98 per cent of the world now uses Simplified Chinese. And yet I chose to go to Taiwan to learn Chinese. Bipolar Camps of Traditional vs Simplified Apparently, the university where I studied Chinese saw an influx of students because China’s borders were closed. Here’s why I decided to go to Taiwan.…
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I’m taking the next step to learn Chinese in Taiwan
I regularly go on language exchanges to practise Chinese. At every meeting, half the time, someone would say that my Chinese is very good and they see no need to really undertake such a disruption to life and career. So why am I bothering to dedicate months to go to Taiwan to learn Chinese? My…
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What does my accent when speaking Chinese say about me?
I’m currently travelling the UK and I was in the northern part of England recently. If you know the UK, the accents vary much more at much lesser distance, unlike in the US or Canada where there’s more homogeneity. As I got off the train one hour north from London, I could hear a slight…
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Is Chinese hard to learn? Here are my tips.
Chinese is hard to learn but I have some bite-sized tips for you that have helped me a lot.