Mandarin Segments

If you're anything beyond a beginner in studying Mandarin, you would have come across situations when the same word can be used both a...

I grew up on Seuss I read him a lot And though I'm a grown-up I still think he's hot! If I Ran the Zoo And then:  Hop on Pop...

It was back in 2011 that I wrote my first post dedicated to the use of flashcards for learning Chinese, entitled " Flashcards: Just...

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have been really lucky to get some time with Timothy Richardson, the co-author of the Remembering Hanzi ...

Dark Times There was a time when the so-called Heisig method was for Japanese only. Those were dark times. And even though the origina...

Depending on what you read, different sources seem to disagree about how many tones Mandarin has. It's not a particularly big disagree...

I've been thinking a fair amount about tones lately, and although some of the points are relatively basic, I thought it would be usefu...

I was revising flashcards recently, and in a relatively short space of time there were sentences that included 尽可能 (jǐnkěnéng - as much as...

Today is the fifth birthday of MandarinSegments. Happy birthday! Here are some facts ... I have posted 141 articles My first post w...

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