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Pronunciation · 14 min read
Everything you need to read and pronounce any Chinese syllable: the 21 initials, the finals, the spelling rules for y, w and ü, and where the tone mark goes.
Pronunciation · 12 min read
Understand the 55, 35, 214 and 51 contours, why English and French speakers get them wrong, and practise with concrete drills.
Pronunciation · 11 min read
Why 你好 is said "ní hǎo", why 不 sometimes becomes "bú", and why 一 changes tone three ways: all the rules, with examples and tips to make them automatic.
Writing · 12 min read
Learn the eight fundamental strokes (横, 竖, 撇, 捺, 点, 折, 提, 钩) and the seven rules that let you write any character correctly, even one you've never seen.
Writing · 11 min read
What a radical is, how characters are built (pictographs, ideographs, phono-semantic compounds) and how to use radicals to guess meaning and pronunciation.
Grammar · 13 min read
Why you say 一本书 and not "一书", the 25 most useful measure words (个, 本, 张, 杯, 件, 条, 只, 位, 辆, 双, 家, 次…), and how to use them with 这, 那, 几 and verbs.
Grammar · 13 min read
Chinese sentences follow a very stable logic. Learn the basic structure, where time, place and manner go, questions without inversion, and the topic-comment construction.
Grammar · 15 min read
了 is not a past-tense marker! Finally understand the difference between verbal 了 (completed action) and sentence-final 了 (change of situation), plus the cases where you must not use it.
Grammar · 12 min read
Three characters, one pronunciation: de. Learn to choose confidently between 的 (before a noun), 地 (before a verb) and 得 (after a verb), with a simple rule and examples.
Exam · 13 min read
How the new 9-level HSK 3.0 standard works, how many hours to plan for each level, and a concrete method to progress and pass the exam.
Method · 12 min read
Why we forget, how spaced repetition and the FSRS algorithm fight forgetting, and how to build an effective daily routine with Hanlu's reviews.
Culture · 14 min read
The cultural codes you need to communicate with Chinese people: greetings, forms of address, names, table manners, gifts, major festivals and number symbolism.