Tag: learning Chinese

Learning Chinese through emoji, and emoji through Chinese

Posted on by The Editor

The cover design for The Hanmoji Handbook flanked by some happy party face emoji

It’s just been two months since The Hanmoji Handbook: Your Guide to the Chinese Language Through Emoji was launched! The handbook is published by MITeen Press and authored by fellow 88 Bar contributors Jason Li and An Xiao Mina, alongside ⭐️ author Jennifer 8. Lee. What’s more, the book draws on their decade of experience writing about technology,…

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Illustrated introduction to the four tones of Mandarin Chinese

Posted on by Jason Li

(Disclaimer: This is a repost of a blog post I wrote at my day job, which I think 88 Bar readers will also find interesting. Apologies for the plug.)

We’ve started playing with the newly released ShowMe app, which lets you create Khan Academy-style video tutorials. So far it’s been pretty great. Below, we’ve included the first…

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