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 Language learning and its struggles  To learn a language is quite an adventure, it can give you a sense of productivity and academic validation, but from time to time these two things won't give you the feeling you want to achieve, or you might be so burnout that you don't seem to care, which can lead you to feel shame and a sense of failure. But this feeling is something most language learners have gone thought at least once, but there's always a way to get back on track, even though it can sometimes feel like that's impossible.  How to get back on track? There's more than one way to do this, but the first thing you need to do is check where your abilities are at, because sometimes it might feel like you lost all your knowledge, so you just need to know on what level you are currently on, in my opinion the idea that you have lost all your knowledge is quite difficult to reach, the thing that happens is that you lost contact with the language, so your knowledge is ...

 What is 部首? 部首 or also known as Chinese radicals, are the components of the Chinese characters, they are used in Chinese dictionaries and in some cases can help you figure out the meaning of unknown words. Radicals are taught in kindergarten (just like in the west we learn the alphabet) and in a way they are the base of the Chinese writing system. Why radicals can be useful as Chinese learners? This depends on your approach to learn Chinese, you can easily go through your Chinese language path without really caring about radicals. But there are some cases where radicals could quite help you, for example: if you want to learn both traditional and simplified Chinese, or if you want to understand Chinese names, but its main use is to be able to remember characters and have a more profound understanding of them. Previously I have already given my best tips to remember characters, so if you are interested on that you can check the following: How to remember characters , however those t...

Chinese Characters Chinese language has something quite especial about it; you are probably already thinking about its main difference from other languages, and it's one of the differences that make Chinese quite different from western languages. This difference I'm mentioning is the fact that it doesn't have an alphabet; instead it has characters. There is not an exact quantity of Chinese characters, it's belief that there are around 7000 different characters. But in reality only 2500 to 3500 characters are used, which is still a lot, but there's no reason to fear them, because they are actually quite interesting and filled with history. How to remember characters  The following tips come from my own experience which might work for you, but it's important to mention that everybody is different, in my case I have a good memory which has really helped me, but as I move through the intermediate level I'm starting to need more study hours. Immersion, the reason...

Tomb Sweeping Day, an interesting holiday  What is Tomb Sweeping day?  Qing Ming festival is a holiday that's meant to commemorate and pay respect to a person's ancestors. On this day families visit the gravesite of their ancestors, and they gather there to honor their ancestors by praying, cleaning the graves, burning incense and remembering those who passed away.  Tomb Sweeping day, is a holiday that's celebrated 15 days after the Spring Equinox following the Chinese Lunar calendar, or 107 days after winter has begun, which means that this holiday usually falls between April 4th and April 6th. It's important to mention that Tomb Sweeping Day is considered and official holiday in China, in which most people get the day off from work and from school.  The origin of this holiday The QingMing Festival grew out of an ancient Chinese festival called 寒食. The Hanshi Festival is also known as the  Cool Food Festival.  The Hanshi Festival was originally celebrated ...