Quantcast
Channel: Stealth Chinese » improve and maintain
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live

Reviewing Trains Your Brain

Lately I have been reading many books on mental fitness. In Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance, Dr. Daniel G. Amen writes:...

View Article


The One Advantage of Being an Adult Language Learner

Learning Chinese is tough, especially for us older people. Our brains simply aren’t forming connections at the same rate as when we were children and adolescents. I started learning Chinese at age 24,...

View Article


What’s more important? Discipline or Talent?

I stumbled upon a fascinating article about the founder of SuperMemo, Piotr Wozniak. As you know, I am a believer in optimized repetition to lock characters and words in our brains. It’s interesting to...

View Article

Test the Accuracy of Your Chinese Pronunciation with NTU Chinese

When I was studying at ICLP from 2006-2007, they were conducting test trials of a new Chinese speech analysis software. Basically, you listen to a native speaker say a sentence, and then you try to...

View Article

Skeletons

How one introduces, connects, and concludes thoughts makes one sound fluent. Stories sound natural as one sentence glides easily to the next. Many foreign speakers of Chinese can communicate their idea...

View Article


How To Read And Understand Long Articles in 30 Minutes

When I was studying at ICLP, one of my courses was “Selected Business Readings.” My teacher would select one article a day from Taiwanese Newspapers, Business Periodicals, the Economist, etc, which I...

View Article

You’ve Hit the Wall. Now What?

I bumped into one of my classmates at the track this afternoon. He was visibly upset and exercising to let off some steam. He told me that he had received his oral grade for the quarter. Even after two...

View Article

How to Pick the Right Chinese Language Program

Many friends of friends have asked me where they should go if they want to study Chinese in China for a few months. The key to selecting the right school for you is: (1) knowing your Chinese level I...

View Article


Speak English to Sound More Chinese

Have you ever wondered why all Chinese accented English sounds very similar? It’s because Chinese people are using “Mandarin” positions of their mouth and tongue to speak English the same way we use...

View Article


Try Jerry Seinfeld’s Method to Build Momentum

This year over a billion Chinese around the world are celebrating the New Year – the Year of the Tiger.  Here in Singapore, it’s great to see everyone put work aside and rejoice with family and...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live