Writing Habit Mastery - How to Write 2,000 Words a Day and Fo... by S.J. Scott

However, personally, I believe this is an inflation and it is probably more like a B1.

It is divided into six levels with HSK 1 being the most basic elements of the language and HSK 6 as the highest level.Īccording to the organization that conducts the HSK, an HSK 4 is equivalent to the CEFR’s B2 designation. For those unfamiliar with the HSK, it is the largest official exam for Chinese as a second language. In May, just a little shy of three months in China, I wrote the HSK 4 and passed with a 74% (Listening: 82%, Reading: 77% and Writing: 62%). Additionally long-time Chinese learners John Pasden and Hacking Chinese’s very own, Olle Linge, offered a lot of advice in designing this project, and I appreciate the time they took for interviews, which I’ve included below.

Chinese-Forums member Tamu, who wrote about challenging the HSK 5 after just 4 months in Taiwan. Benny Lewis, who first wrote about going up against Chinese in only three months. Side note: I’m indebted to the many people who helped inspire and encourage this project. I owe a debt of gratitude to Vat for painting an excellent picture of what life was like and the Chinese we managed to reach.īeyond that video, however, I want to go into more detail and give you the strategies I found worked best so you can use them yourself if you plan to learn Chinese or any other language. In this post I’m going to try to dissect the specific methods I found most successful for reaching a strong conversational level of Chinese, after just a little over three months of private study.įirst though, if you haven’t seen it, check out the mini-documentary Vat and I shot about the experience of living in China/Taiwan and learning Chinese. If you want to evaluate his speaking skills, there are several videos in this post, one of them with Scott, his friend Vat and me speaking Chinese here in Taipei a few weeks ago. He reached a very decent level of Chinese in little more than three months, including passing HSK4 (yes, including reading and writing).

In this guest article, Scott shares some of his learning experience in a practical and easily applicable way. When I saw that Chinese was one of the languages he had chosen to learn, I was thrilled! Young runs one of the most interesting blogs I know I have kept an eye on his various projects and thoughts about how to get more out of life for at least five years, so when he said that he would now turn to learning languages, I was eager to see what would happen. When it comes to learning things, Scott H. I have been inspired by many people in my life and in many different areas.

Writing Habit Mastery - How to Write 2,000 Words a Day and Fo... by S.J. Scott