General Study Advice and Discussion

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1. Reading The Three Kingdoms in Du Chinese

   By flautert, September 20, 2022 at 11:14 PM
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   • flautert
   • September 21, 2022 at 12:39 PM

2. Loci method and Chinese language

   By fabiothebest, September 10, 2022 at 09:32 PM
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   • 大块头
   • September 12, 2022 at 05:19 PM

3. Looking for in-person tutoring in the Orlando, Florida. Area

   By Jody, August 31, 2022 at 05:32 PM
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   • Flickserve
   • September 10, 2022 at 05:08 AM

4. filtered decks and the alternatives thereto

   By 大块头, August 3, 2022 at 06:44 PM
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   • markhavemann
   • August 9, 2022 at 10:24 AM

5. A Bump from the Past: "Stop Teaching Me to Write, I Tell You!" 1 2

   By 889, July 15, 2022 at 02:55 PM
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   • realmayo
   • July 21, 2022 at 09:47 AM

6. My rant: Problems with the Chinese Teaching System 1 2 3 4 5

   By self-taught-mba, December 30, 2005 at 05:42 AM
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   • Insectosaurus
   • July 17, 2022 at 02:03 PM

7. Rant about native speakers 1 2 3

   By Hofmann, March 27, 2009 at 06:15 AM
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   • GeneKL
   • July 1, 2022 at 01:00 PM

8. A Bump from the Past: "Just Cuz You're a Native Speaker Doesn't Mean You're Right!"

   By 889, June 29, 2022 at 12:31 PM
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   • Demonic_Duck
   • June 29, 2022 at 05:16 PM

9. How to get the most out of native podcasts with no transcripts(advanced)

   By Badger, June 24, 2022 at 03:59 AM
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   • hengecriselda
   • June 25, 2022 at 02:06 PM

10. Building Active Vocabulary

    By dakonglong, May 22, 2022 at 12:02 AM
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    • markhavemann
    • May 22, 2022 at 01:45 AM

11. How to reduce distractions while learning chinese?

    By phoneticsem, April 29, 2022 at 12:34 AM
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    • phoneticsem
    • May 15, 2022 at 01:42 AM

12. What is your definition of success with Chinese?

    By dakonglong, November 7, 2021 at 03:19 AM
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    • realmayo
    • May 9, 2022 at 06:29 AM

13. Extensive or intensive studying (listening, speaking) better?

    By Zhenzhunaicha, May 4, 2022 at 09:27 PM
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    • Qaamar
    • May 9, 2022 at 01:59 AM

14. Chinese language learning survey

    By laoyumi, May 6, 2022 at 02:03 AM
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    • Flickserve
    • May 7, 2022 at 04:00 AM

15. How to determine your proficiency level

    By dakonglong, April 30, 2022 at 04:09 AM
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    • laoyumi
    • May 4, 2022 at 12:31 AM

16. List of important characters (in addition to radicals)

    By Dana123, March 18, 2022 at 09:33 AM
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    • phoneticsem
    • April 23, 2022 at 09:32 AM

17. Teacher posting disturbing moments

    By suMMit, April 20, 2022 at 06:55 AM
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    • Lu
    • April 21, 2022 at 07:25 AM

18. How many words should I learn? Im hsk4 1 2

    By Jony112314, March 27, 2022 at 04:18 AM
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    • Jony112314
    • April 17, 2022 at 02:42 PM

19. Active Chinese speaking communities outside China

    By david387, April 7, 2022 at 02:16 AM
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    • amytheorangutan
    • April 7, 2022 at 08:02 AM

20. Ideas wanted: How would you improve this study process for new vocab&syntax acquisition? 1 2

    By Tamu, October 26, 2013 at 05:46 PM
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    • Flickserve
    • March 27, 2022 at 09:01 AM

21. How to recove Chinese I've almost forgotten?

    By red1, March 26, 2022 at 01:26 PM
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    • Jan Finster
    • March 27, 2022 at 06:42 AM

22. "Who lives better?" by 张洁

    By flautert, March 11, 2022 at 11:46 PM
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    • Lu
    • March 16, 2022 at 09:07 AM

23. Is it just me, or the HSK tests seem to be significantly harder in mainland China than the ones held abroad?

    By I.carranza, March 10, 2022 at 11:44 AM
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    • I.carranza
    • March 12, 2022 at 04:07 PM

24. I don't know how I should be structuring my learning because I don't have a lot of money

    By teddy00, March 7, 2022 at 06:12 AM
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    • Jan Finster
    • March 8, 2022 at 06:51 PM

25. Getting started with Chinese

    By PlanetLockdownFilm, March 4, 2022 at 11:43 AM
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    • Flickserve
    • March 7, 2022 at 05:21 AM