Blog

Nothing published here yet.

The course comes first. When there are posts they will be about the things a lesson cannot hold: why tone drills stop working after a month, what to do when your listening is far behind your reading, and whether handwriting characters is worth the hours it costs.

Meanwhile, the pages people find most useful are these.

The four tones

What each one does, the three tone change rules, and a drill that plays them in pairs.

Pinyin explained

The eight spellings that catch every English speaker, and where the tone mark goes.

HSK levels

What the test measures, and the state of the change from six levels to nine.