Zhou Xiaogeng's Essentials of Chinese Lexicology is a great vocabulary book for learning Mandarin. It focuses primarily on the rules…

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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis) is one of the most major breakthroughs in modern linguistics.…

The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (汉语水平考试, HSK) is a standard language test in the PRC for testing levels of standard Mandarin.…

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English is my native language, but I learned Mandarin fluently. I don't speak Mandarin from being raised with it, I…

Some words are more common than others. This very basic linguistic principle has been researched (warning: PDF) a lot. This…

One of the hardest things when learning a language (which isn't written in the same writing system as yours) is…

Paul Rouzer's A New Primer of Literary Chinese is pretty much the best book of its class that I've seen.…