The Top 10 Popular Chinese New Year Activities
Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people and the most widely celebrated holiday in the world. With great passion, people observe this annual 16-day festival with…
A New Method To Significantly Improve Your Study: Interleaving Study Method
In previous posts of the How to study more effectively with Pandanese series, we introduced the two most powerful learning methods discovered to date: spaced repetition system (SRS) and retrieval…
The Perfect Guideline To Chinese New Year Gifts
Celebrated by approximately 1.4 billion people (including domestic and overseas Chinese people), the Lunar New Year is undoubtedly the most important holiday in China. This is the time for large…
How To Say I Love You in Chinese with Phrases and Numbers
People learn Chinese for different reasons. Some are interested in Chinese culture and want to make friends with Chinese people. Others want to find jobs in China. There are also…
A Guide To The Four Basic Mandarin Tones
Tones are a crucial part of learning the Mandarin language as they can change the meaning of a word. By pronouncing the tones correctly, not only do you make your…
7 Undeniable Benefits Of Learning Mandarin
People all over the world commonly refer to Chinese as a language. But the truth is Chinese is not a language! It is, in fact, an umbrella term referring to…
How To Learn Chinese Vocabulary Fast For Beginners (5 Popular Methods)
Spoken by 921 million native speakers and nearly 200 million second-language speakers, Chinese is the second most spoken language in the world to English. As China’s economy is growing fast,…
Pandanese – The Wanikani of Chinese Mandarin
Every Japanese learner must study kanji if they want to master the language. But why is that? Because without kanji, it's nearly impossible to understand the meaning of a sentence.…
Chinese Greetings: The Best Way To Sound Like A Native
There are many ways for a Chinese beginner to speak Chinese like a native. Even if you cannot speak Chinese fluently yet, greeting others politely and appropriately is a good…
Strategies for Reading Mandarin at Any Learning Level
Reading Mandarin is undeniably hard. If you ask a native Chinese speaker, most of them will admit that their mother tongue could be the hardest language in the world. Even…