Characters and tones stand out because most students have not encountered them before learning Mandarin. Still, when I asked readers of Hacking Chinese which skill they struggled with the most, listening was the most common answer, not speaking, reading or writing. Tune in tothe Hacking Chinese ...
. Wang Zhenyi learned riding and shooting from General Mongolia’s wife , and developed the superb skill of “hitting the target”. In the forty-ninth year of Qianlong’s reign (1784), he accompanied his father and others to escort his grandfather’s coffin back to Jiangning, and then tra...