In 2020, one of my main focuses was Chinese. To improve my Chinese comprehension and have more variety in speaking, I began practicing reading aloud articles from Chinese textbooks. I am currently reading from the grade 4 Chinese textbooks. I usually finish a grade every month. I also listened to podcasts about Chinese history and […]
In another article, I mentioned that my Chinese handwriting was not very good. But it wasn’t just my handwriting, my Chinese speaking and reading skills were not good either. Why? Because after I dropped out of school 5 years ago, I focused all my attention on English; which did pay off considering I am writing […]
When I want to write something; English or Chinese (It doesn’t matter), I don’t usually “write”, I “type”. Even though most writing nowadays can be done on the computer, Writing with pen and paper is still as important. The last time I really practiced my Chinese handwriting/calligraphy is when I was 7, after that, I […]
I want to get better at writing articles and stories in Chinese. And the only way to do that is to practice and actually write! Doing things you’re not good at isn’t enjoyable at all. So I decided to start by writing only one article/story/whatever with at least 200 characters every day. My goal was […]
In the article “Library of recorded Chinese poems” I said that I kinda stutter when I speak Chinese, it isn’t a major problem but still annoying. The cause of this is because I don’t speak Chinese all that much. For the same reason, I’m also not very good at explaining stuff efficiently. This is normal […]
I mainly focused on English, and that was very useful, but the downside is that I didn’t have that much time to learn Chinese. My own System I didn’t use the Chinese textbooks in this project, instead, I have my own system, I read poems every morning and I also read books and write articles every day. […]