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www.allsetlearning.com — AllSet Learning has just made its Chinese Grammar Wiki project publicly available. It’s been accessible to clients in Shanghai for some time, but now we’re proud to share it with the rest of the Chinese-learning world as well. Why a Grammar Wiki? Web-savvy learners of Chinese have known for some time that there’s no single comprehensive grammar resource for Chinese grammar on the entire internet.

www.gochengdoo.com — Sichuanhua has grown and settled over the millennia in the isolated basin of Sichuan. A Southwestern sub-dialect of Mandarin, it is not difficult to pick up for those with a solid grasp of Mandarin's tones and pronunciation.

www.fluentflix.com — The hardest part of Chinese is that it feels arbitrary.

It has its own logic, but it takes trial and error to figure it out.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a shortcut?

Have you heard of sentence mining?

www.lostlaowai.com — Inspired by a recent list of foreigners who speak exceptional Chinese who were all men, Nicki felt the mandarin-speaking XXers needed a bit of representation.

studymorechinese.com — Click through for a couple of links to pages on cntv where you can watch free episodes of SpongeBob & Dora the Explorer in Chinese, ideal for your kids learning Mandarin or just for mixing it up.

www.fluentflix.com — We couldn't make this up if we tried.
A new Chinese word has emerged in recent years that literally means "leftover girls." It's used to describe urban women who enjoy a high level of education, income, IQ, and have the looks to boot.... but have high standards when it comes to the opposite sex, making them unable to meet their ideal mate (and not as young as when they started out).

blog.chinatravel.net — Vermont /Michigan reared James Weir is a new member of the Chinatravel team. He has a great pen, skills on the guitar and piano and the determination and grit to sit through hours of Chinese tutelage. Here he drops a little insight into the ball-pit of Chinese language learning and how it's not the spiraling descent into misery that it seems. Check it out >>>

www.gochengdoo.com — Most everybody knows broccoli from cauliflower, corn from beans, and carrots from cucumbers, but what about those ... other things? Take a stroll down any open produce market in Chengdu and you're bound to come across some things you don't recognize. From leafy greens to squashes to tubers, the things you won't see in a chain supermarket in Europe or North America are aplenty.

chinesehacks.com — Great post by long time ex-pat James Steed about seizing everyday experiences to improve your Chinese ability.

rob.easternity.com — Anyone who has made relationships that utilize no English at all will back me up when I say they’re immensely rewarding, but also immensely difficult.