Shanghai Expat

Alongside China’s rise, becoming the 2nd largest economy and the biggest exporting country in the world in 2010, more and more merchants from every corner of the world are coming to China to find their business partners and suppliers and to seek new ...

The last ten years have brought online education from relative obscurity to some level of legitimacy. Though I am pretty skeptical of online degrees in Neuroscience, I do think learning Mandarin through online methods is very possible. However, a lot ...

In my opinion learning Chinese is not an easy task; it’s actually very difficult. In Chinese, one character can have multiple pronunciations and meanings. And it’s common that characters have the same pronunciation but different meanings. Chinese is so ...

On Twitter I mention every now and then that I am studying Chinese during lunch time or late at night. Because of that I sometimes get mails from people asking me advice on how to best study Chinese. I am no expert in that field, but maybe it helps some ...