General Study Advice and Discussion

2,206 topics in this forum

1. Learning Chinese – advice for the new and independent student 1 2 3

   By roddy, May 4, 2009 at 06:17 AM
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   • MTH123
   • April 28, 2022 at 08:37 PM

2. Why Chinese? 1 2 3 4 12

   By roddy, March 4, 2014 at 03:26 PM
   • 220 replies
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   • Woodford
   • February 11, 2022 at 10:15 PM

3. The 2020 Aims and Objectives Progress Topic 1 2 3 4 7

   By ∞保罗∞, December 15, 2019 at 09:36 PM
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   • Singe
   • May 7, 2021 at 08:35 AM

4. Links to all 問我anything topics, and suggestions

   By oceancalligraphy, November 9, 2014 at 12:25 AM
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   • suMMit
   • February 20, 2021 at 03:07 AM

5. Some advice for beginners 1 2 3 4

   By wushijiao, June 23, 2005 at 01:43 AM
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   • TaxiAsh
   • March 16, 2020 at 12:03 PM

6. Support Chinese-forums.com! 1 2

   By roddy, May 3, 2009 at 03:32 PM
   • 23 replies
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   • Mati1
   • August 9, 2016 at 07:13 PM

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. The 2022 Aims and Objectives Progress Topic 1 2 3 4 5

    By alantin, December 26, 2021 at 12:20 PM
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    • Insectosaurus
    • April 16, 2022 at 01:04 PM

16. Tips and Tricks for Learning Chinese 1 2 3 4

    By dakonglong, January 3, 2022 at 04:45 AM
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    • dakonglong
    • April 10, 2022 at 01:54 AM

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. "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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Chinese pop-up dictionary incompatible with Google Docs?

    By yibeikafei, February 28, 2022 at 11:15 AM
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    • MoonIvy
    • February 28, 2022 at 12:13 PM

25. What motivates you to keep going? 1 2

    By PerpetualChange, February 17, 2022 at 02:58 PM
    • 21 replies
    • 966 views
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    • Lu
    • February 25, 2022 at 04:42 PM