One of the benefits of living in Hong Kong is that we have the best of both worlds. We have schools offering the best international curriculums and the opportunity to live in a foreign culture and learn a foreign language, Chinese. The challenge is how to help our wards pick up this new tongue in [...]
One of the things I’ve been struggling with learning really well are the Kanxi Radicals that make up Chinese characters. Those radicals that I do know well make it really easy for me to learn how to recognize words. But, there are a bunch of radicals I still struggle with. The one thing I have [...]
One of the things I’ve been trying to devote more time to is studying Chinese. In the last three months, I’ve been using Molatra’s TrainChinese app to learn traditional chinese characters alongside my Cantonese language learning. To date, I can identify close to 600 traditional characters. You need a repertoire of about 3000 words to [...]
When banker Lee Tau Shen and his wife, Winnie Chong, relocated from Singapore, they were concerned about how their sons would learn Putonghua. Matthew, six, and Benjamin, three, are still deepening their grasp of their first language, English. In Singapore, they were introduced to Mandarin as a second language. Now, they are exposed to Cantonese [...]
I’ve been doing some research on Chinese language learning apps both on commission as well as for my own use in learning Cantonese. These are few of the latest apps available in the market which I find really useful and really polished. My own list is a little longer than this since I adopt different [...]
Remember the review posts I did of The Language Hacking Guide? Well, Benny recently moved to Taiwan to learn Mandarin, a language I have had wars with in my childhood. Since I’m learning Cantonese, I’ve been tracking his Mandarin progress to see if y’know – if it could really done in 3 months. I’m already [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my thoughts visiting Beijing after thirteen years. Since then, I’ve also heard of many expatriates who have moved to China (Hong Kong included) and long to return home but can’t because they fear they would not find decent work. Apparently, all the jobs worth having are in China. When I was in school, [...]