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Process of creating a Chinese font
Just you try designing 13,000-plus intricate character shapes that all have to balance one another. Read more.
qz.com

stefanwienert – over 9 years
Character Pop
Explode Chinese characters into their building blocks; visualize and remember how they are formed. Read more.
characterpop.com

stefanwienert – almost 11 years
The future of Chinese language learning is now (about handwriting and romanised text) (Language Log)
In this blog post, Victor Mair discusses the relative (un)importance of learning to write large numbers of characters by hand (especially for beginners) and the impact of technology for learners of... Read more.
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

Olle Linge – about 11 years
《重訂標點符號手冊》修訂版 (Punctuation Manual)
This site offers detailed information of how to use punctuation marks in Chinese. Even though the usage is very close to English, it's not identical, so it's good to have a reference to look things... Read more.
language.moe.gov.tw

Olle Linge – almost 11 years
Why good feedback matters and how to get it
Teachers give feedback in many different ways, some terribly bad, others very good. The bad ones let you struggle for hours just to correct your essay, not necessarily learning much on the way. The... Read more.
hackingchinese.com

Olle Linge – about 11 years
Sensible Chinese character learning revisited
In a way, learning Chinese characters is very much like learning vocabulary in any foreign language and much of the efficient methods developed there works well for Chinese as well. However, charac... Read more.
hackingchinese.com

Olle Linge – about 11 years
The 5th Skill: Handwriting (Laowai Chinese 老外中文)
In this article, Albert Wolfe of Laowai Chinese talks about handwriting as the fifth skill. The four normal skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing, but he argues that in Chinese, handw... Read more.
laowaichinese.net

Olle Linge – about 11 years
@HanpingChengyu Twitter account (animated Chinese Idiom per day)
Follow this Twitter account to get a new animated Chinese Idiom (Chengyu) in your Twitter feed every day. Characters are Simplified Chinese, pronunciation is Pinyin (coloring is [Hanping's](http://... Read more.
twitter.com

hanpingchinese – over 8 years
Iteration marks in Chinese (Wikipedia)
Have you ever wondered what a small 二 or weird symbols that look like 〻 or 々 mean in Chinese handwriting? These aren't characters you normally find in printed books, but they do exist in handwritin... Read more.
en.wikipedia.org

Olle Linge – almost 10 years