Hacking Chinese Podcast
A podcast about how to learn Mandarin. In-depth discussions about how to overcome challenges, solve problems and get the most out of your learning. For more information and inspiration, visit https://www.hackingchinese.com!
Episodes (586)
243 - How to use mnemonics to learn Mandarin tones and pronunciation
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242 - Don’t be a tourist if you want to learn Chinese
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241 - Cramming vs. spaced repetition: When to use which method to learn Chinese
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240 - The best YouTube channels for learning Chinese
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239 - Student Q&A: March, 2025: Chinese slang, leaving expat bubbles, and compet...
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238 - Learning Chinese by playing board games
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237 - Love and language: Challenges and opportunities in learning Chinese with a...
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236 - The Input Pyramid: Chinese Listening for Any Situation
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235 - Student Q&A: February, 2025: Improving listening ability quickly, using tr...
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234 - Reader and listener survey + Lunar New Year discount
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233 - The three roads to mastering Chinese
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232 - Best of Hacking Chinese 2024
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231 - Student Q&A, January 2025: Chinese that reads like English, feedback from...
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230 - What native speakers know about Chinese (and what they don't)
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229 - Don’t use mnemonics for everything when learning Chinese
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228 - Benchmarking progress in Chinese to stay motivated
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227 - Can English learning materials help you learn Chinese?
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226 - Student Q&A, December 2024: Learning similar Chinese characters, polyphoni...
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225 - Which Chinese learning resources are worth paying for?
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224 - Welcome to The Fluent Listener, a new course from Hacking Chinese!
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223 - Four key principles to improve your Mandarin listening comprehension
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222 - Student Q&A, November 2024: Pros and cons of digital tools for Chinese rea...
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221 - How to learn Zhuyin (Bopomofo) in two hours
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220 - Do you really know how to count in Chinese?
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219 - Three things I wish I had known as an advanced student of Chinese: Time ma...
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218 - Don’t learn Mandarin pronunciation by reading, listen and mimic instead
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217 - Student Q&A, October 2024: Pronouncing the final -i after sh-, the initial...
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216 - How to use YouTube and other video platforms to learn Chinese
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215 - Three things I wish I had known as an intermediate student of Chinese: The...
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214 - YouGlish: A free service to hear and see Chinese words in context
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213 - Student Q&A, September 2024: Slowly spoken Chinese, passing listening exam...
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212 - Getting the most from Hacking Chinese in024: Back-to-school course discoun...
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211 - Three things I wish I had known as a beginner student of Chinese: The time...
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210 - The 10 best free Chinese listening resources for beginner, intermediate an...
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209 - Student Q&A, August 2024: Avoiding mental translation, untranslatable word...
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208 - Insights from my recent trip to China: The importance of top-down listenin...
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207 - Chinese character variants and font differences for language learners
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206 - Why you should preview before every Chinese lesson
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205 - How I used a notebook to learn more Chinese, and why you should too
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204 - Student Q&A, July 2024: Reading speed, children’s books and Chinese litera...
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203 - The three factors that determine how much Chinese you learn
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202 - Habit hacking for language learners
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201 - Should you learn the pronunciation of radicals?
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200 - Student Q&A, June 2024: How much time on flashcards, Remembering the Hanzi...
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199 - Chinese character learning for all students
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198 - Learning to hear the sounds and tones in Mandarin
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197 - 24 great resources for improving your Mandarin pronunciation
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196 - Student Q&A, May 2024: Understanding strangers, listening with transcripts...
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195 - Why is listening in Chinese so hard? Beyond tīng bu dǒng, part 6
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194 - Chengyu, a magic key to Chinese language and culture, or a waste of time?
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