Archive for May 2018 – Page 4

Chinese Breeze: Chinese readers with original plots

chinese breeze graded readerChinese Breeze: graded Chinese readers with original stories

As much as I benefit from reading and listening to textbook dialogues, learning new vocabulary and new grammar points, a learner needs variety to make learning Chinese fun.   This is what I like about Chinese Breeze.

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Play the lute to a cow: 对牛弹琴

Ever feel like you were talking to a brick wall?  Do I have a Chinese idiom for you!  It is “对牛弹琴”( Duì niú tán qín) .  Translated it literally means “play the lute to a cow”. Read More…

My favorite Chinese app: Pleco Dict

Pleco: the Chinese student’s best friend.

Get the Pleco app

If you’re going to study Chinese, you’ll eventually need to invest in a dictionary.

I haven’t touched a paper Chinese dictionary in years because Pleco does everything that I want and more. Read More…