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Chinese components & Chinese radicals World: Up, close and personal with Chinese characters
Ninchanese March 12, 2020Introducing a whole new world on Ninchanese: The Rad Way to Learn Chinese Characters! It’s chock-full of rad Chinese components to discover. What’s so rad about those? Easy: they’re your key to understanding Chinese characters a LOT better. Let’s dive in.
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Writing Chinese characters: The purpose
Ninchanese February 28, 2020I think at one point everyone who starts learning Chinese asks themselves the same questions about writing Chinese:
- Do I need to learn to write Chinese characters?
- When is the best time to begin with them?
- Where do you start?
- How do you write Chinese characters? Are there any rules?
With this article, I want to share a bit of my experience in writing characters and maybe a helpful additional way of learning Chinese. To be clear, I’m not talking about the art of Chinese Calligraphy but just casual hand-writing. Handwritten Chinese with a pen a piece of paper.
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How is the Corona Virus affecting daily life in China?
Ninchanese February 7, 2020Stefan, currently living the fear of the virus as an ex-pat in China, will give you all the tips you need to make it safe with a well-handcrafted list of vocabulary to know. Read Stefan’s story below.
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How to review words on Ninchanese when the number is too high
Ninchanese November 8, 2019When you want to learn Chinese, you need to go for it and work on it every day. Everyone will tell you that. It’s true for every language you are learning. Regularity is the key. As is reviewing words you’ve just learned, so they go from your short-term to your long-term memory. We know, however, that it’s not always easy to stay focused and to review daily. It’s even more complicated when you’re a beginner to intermediate learner since you can’t enjoy Chinese content from TV (for example) passively yet. So, you may skip one or two days. That’s alright! But what happens when you skip learning for weeks? Or even a month? Your words to review start to pile up. Is there any way to start learning Chinese again? To handle your word reviews? The short answer is YES.
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5 Chinese Idioms that Sound Like English Idioms
Ninchanese October 21, 2019If you already use these idioms in English, then you’ll be surprised how simple is it to use these Chinese idioms and sound as smart as an old Chinese uncle.
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The top 30 Chinese celebrities to know!
Ninchanese May 20, 2019Don’t you feel that, as westerners, you don’t know many Chinese celebrities? We had a conversation with Possopo. He’s been a learner for a good time on Ninchanese now and has an intermediate Chinese level. He came across Chinese names he did not know before on Ninchanese. We started to have a conversation about this topic and so Possopo decided to explore more that cultural aspect. He made a great list of Chinese persons to know with very clever and funny explanations about them. I’ll let you read his blog article and discover his Chinese celebrities list at the end of the article.
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Should I do more than my daily Chinese character learning reviews? If yes, then what?
Ninchanese April 4, 2019Recently, a Chinese learner phrased something in a particular way. He reached out to us and said: “I have a memory problem. How can I do more reviews?”
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14 meowsome websites about China and the Chinese language
Ninchanese January 21, 2019We have selected some of the best tools and websites about Chinese culture and language we use every day or visit regularly. These are just a few that we particularly appreciate, the real gems you can use to learn Chinese online or to explore China from the comfort of your home.
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Ninchanese is out of Beta!
Ninchanese December 18, 2018On our mission to deliver the best Chinese learning app, we’re thrilled to announce that Ninchanese is out of beta!
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