Since studying Mandarin enthusiastically from October 2014, I finally got around to testing my proficiency against mock HSK tests.

For the HSK 4 test, a third year undergraduate Mandarin student should have a relatively easy time to…

It’s been a year since I last published content for this blog, and a lot of things have happened including migrating it from a static website to hosting it now on Medium.

When I started this post-grad journey of learning mandarin, my brother told me that one of his friends started using italki to schedule online classes with teachers.
After a month and a half of using italki, I wanted to share with you my impressions. I haven’t payed for any lessons yet…

Recently, I’ve been auditing Rice University’s introductory Coursera course on spreadsheets and it occurred to me that I could use pivot tables to generate summary data and generate charts with those data. I’m stoked to be presenting statistics on my…

Before graduating college, I did a query for local private and public institutions to learn chinese that would be suitable for a 9-to-5er. Part of the reason why I’m self-studying for the HSK 5, is because ultimately I wasn’t…

Hello world! 歡迎光臨！ I am an American Born Chinese (ABC) millennial seeking to bolster my mandarin levels from a limited working proficiency to that of a professional working proficiency or native proficiency. This blog will document my adventures and…