Foreign Languages

A Review of Paul Rouzer’s: A New Primer of Literary Chinese

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

What I Learned About the Art of Translation from Doing It

What I Learned About the Art of Translation from Doing ItWhat I Learned About the Art of Translation from Doing It

I started a project to translate the Daodejing from Chinese into English a few months ago. I hadn't been actively…

Common Chengyu – Part 2

I had previously written about a couple common Chengyu (成语) and decided to follow up with some more which I…

Hack Your Learning: Make Your Studying More Efficient

One of the biggest breakthroughs I made in school was learning how to learn more efficiently. Many of my classmates…

How to Learn a Language

I previously wrote a post about what I look for in language learning materials, but I didn't really go into…

Common Chengyu – Part 1

What Are Chengyu? Chengyu (成语 – Cheng2 yu3) are fixed phrases used in Chinese which typically (but not always) consist…

Essential Browser Plugins For Learning Chinese

I wrote an article about using FOSS tools to learn Chinese, but sometimes all you have in front of you…

FOSS Software to Learn Chinese (or Basically Any Language)

Free, Open-Source Software (FOSS) is one of my passions in general, but there are some great pieces of FOSS software…

Paid Streaming Services for Learning Chinese

I want to compare a couple of paid streaming services for how efficient they are for learning Chinese. I plan…

Teach Yourself: Get Talking Thai vs. Conversational Thai in 7 Days

Teach Yourself: Get Talking Thai in 10 Days and Conversational Thai in 7 Days are both quick and simple language…