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Confusing words in Chinese.
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Quick reminder: 40% off my new Mandarin Grammar Workbook ends tonight at midnight Pacific.
After that, it's โฌ49 instead of โฌ29 and the discount is gone for good.
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After five months of writing, my first Mandarin grammar workbook is finally out.
174 pages. 18 chapters. 108 exercises. Built around the new HSK 1 (rolling out July 2026).
Plus a 534-card Anki deck of sentences from the book.
40% off launch week ๐
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The single biggest thing separating beginners who break through from beginners who plateau:
The first ones spend most of their study time producing sentences.
The second ones spend most of their study time reading explanations.
The good news is the gap is fixable.
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My Mandarin Grammar Workbook is built specifically to fix it.
18 chapters, 108 exercises, the new HSK 1 standard, plus a 534-card Anki deck of full sentences in context.
๐ 40% off until Sunday: payhip.com/b/pb0hd
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The character on the cover of my new workbook is ๅฃน.
It's how you write "one" formally in Chinese, on banknotes, contracts, and official documents. The regular ไธ is too easy to alter (you can just add a stroke). ๅฃน makes that impossible.
Small first lesson, hidden in plain sight
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The whole book is built like this: every page does double duty, teaching you the pattern and then making you use it.
Mandarin Grammar Workbook, Vol. 1: Building Blocks 534-card Anki deck.
๐ 40% off until Sunday night Pacific.
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Most beginner Mandarin books spend 90% of the page explaining the grammar and 10% letting you practice it.
That's why you can recognize ไบ sentences perfectly when you read them, but freeze when you have to produce one yourself.
Reading about grammar isn't using grammar.
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That's why my new workbook is built the other way around. Short, focused lessons (a page or two each), and then six different kinds of exercises per chapter so you actually use what you just learned.
40% off until Sunday: payhip.com/b/pb0hd
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After five months of writing, my first Mandarin grammar workbook is finally out.
174 pages. 18 chapters. 108 exercises. Built around the new HSK 1 (rolling out July 2026).
Plus a 534-card Anki deck of sentences from the book.
40% off launch week ๐
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Workbook Anki deck: payhip.com/b/pb0hd
โฌ29 instead of โฌ49 until Sunday May 24, 23:59 Pacific.
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ๅทฎไธๅค - close enough. Learn how to use it in Chinese ๐งต๐
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ๅจ็ๆฅ - from where you stand. Learn how to use it in Chinese ๐งต๐
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Full lesson on my blog: every Wednesday I explain a new grammar pattern ๐ hsklevel.substack.com
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