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🇨🇳 I watched a video on Chinese Character strokes from my new Coursera Chinese course for HSK from Beijing University. Originally, people studying Mandarin learn to write Chinese characters with the stroke order, but in the past year taking Duolingo Chinese lessons I’ve done without. I hate breaking a tradition that is perhaps more than 2,000 […]

🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹 This morning I started watching the news again from my newsroom. 🇨🇳 Then I started a Coursera Chinese course for HSK from Beijing University. I followed two lessons: 1 你好 nǐ hǎo hello 2 叫 jiào to call 3 什么 shénme what 4 名字 mínɡzi name 5 我 wǒ I, me 6 很 hěn […]

I started this morning with German news from my newsroom. Then I was listening to Italian podcasts. I’m about half way this 30 Day Record Yourself Challenge with a friend. We both missed out on a few days, but I can tell you that overall we do have some continuity on that language because of […]

As I’m in the process of learning multiple languages, I want to record it on this website as of today. I had a whole language journey planned and then Corona came. So now I will continue everything online. And maybe one day, just maybe, I can get close to calling myself a polyglot, while still […]