Taoism is more than a philosophy or religion. It’s a system of beliefs and practices that set towards living to a person’s nature.

If intermediate students want to learn Mandarin online, they must throw out methods that frustrated them in the first place. Mandarin Blueprint for the win!

Part 4 of the Study Chinese & Smash Procrastination deals with the topic about Believing in Yourself and being confident to overcome your fears.

When it comes to how to study Mandarin, habits are a way more important factor than you might initially realize. How can your habits be more positive?

Your show starts now. Each day you take the time to study Chinese, you’ll find that your self-confidence grows faster and faster the more knowledge you gain.

Building your Mandarin Chinese study habits requires simultaneously looking at the overall plan & learning to live in the moment.

Next time you are like Veruca Salt, singing “Don’t care how, I want it NOW!”, come on back to this article on patient Mandarin study.

When trying to figure out how to learn Mandarin by yourself, it is only natural to want to rely on a teacher. Here is how to pave your own path.

Wanting to learn Chinese and knowing what to do to actually acquire it are not actually all that related. A desire is great. A desire motivates. A desire feels good to achieve…but it does very little to actually clarify the path to fulfilling it. This is why so many people fall back into the old habit of “Rote Learning”, i.e. doing something over and over until it is memorized.

Why does your phone still make a camera shutter sound when you snap a photo? There is no shutter. No sound is necessary whatsoever to take a picture with a phone. And yet, the sound is artificially added on top. People just couldn’t stand not hearing it.