This time I have another great collection of resources, with study tips, vocab lists, an interesting movie and more. Sounds exciting right? Make sure to scroll down to the movie preview – it’s well worth it:

1) Learning Chinese: Pinyin vs Zhuyin

Really interesting article by Chinese Hacks Dave on the merits of pinyin vs zhuyin. As we learnt in the comments, zhuyin is mainly a Taiwan thing, but to me it seems like a really sensible system for learning Chinese. I always have the experience when watching movies – if there are English subtitles, I’ll spend more time reading them than paying attention to what people are saying, I think this applies to reading and studying as well. We naturally fall back to what is easiest. Check out this post for more discussion. Via socialmandarin.com

2) 10 ways to make fun of someone in Chinese

I think it’s always really important to learn how to understand when people are getting at you, and even better when you can learn how to get back at them – I have a lot of experience in this area. Check this article out for a few ideas on how to make fun of people in Chinese. Via socialmandarin.com

3) Study like you mean it: A collection of helpful resources

Ok, this is a post I wrote, but I think there is quite the collection of helpful resources in there that are worth checking out. You don’t need to take my opinion for it though, head on over and read the post.

4) Chinese terminology: Buying a computer

Another great post by Chinese Hacks Dave, and again brings up the point the there are a lot of differences between Taiwan and Mainland China. Check out his post for the details, and learn how to buy a computer Chinese style. Via socialmandarin.com

5) Politics, Chinese style

Yes, another one from Sinomatter – a pretty comprehensive list of politics related words for all the Chinese learners out there, so you can argue politics in Chinese. Let me know if there any words you’d think are missing though…

6) Red Light Revolution

Link is to YouTube – so sorry to those of you in China (YouTube is still blocked, right?) – check this out if you can, it looks absolutely fantastic, I really can’t wait to see it. Via haohaoreport.com

7) 快乐汉语 – Happy Chinese

This show has actually been around for quite a while, but never in a way that was easy for me to get to it, but the Chinese government in their infinite wisdom has recently launched cntv.cn – essentially a Chinese version of Hulu or BBC iPlayer (except it can be accessed from anywhere). It’s fantastic, and has a great selection of shows especially for learning Chinese. 快乐汉语 is fantastic, although I always find it funny when in the middle of really complex conversations the break into their learning segment with passages like 您好 and 这是什么？- because we’ve never learnt those tricky words out of the rest of this shows dialogue… Anyway, you definitely want to check this out! The show below is from Tudou since cntv.cn doesn’t allow embedding – they have a much more complete, higher quality collection though.

Well, that’s all for this round – are there any great links I missed? Any sites or stories the deserve to be here? Let me know, and I’ll be sure to include it next time round!