Culture and fun
The stuff that makes Traditional Chinese worth the effort.
Beyond the textbook
Traditional characters carry a few thousand years of story in their strokes, and the places that use them, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, know how to have fun with that.
Wordplay here runs on characters that sound alike and puns that only work in writing.
Night market slang, festival greetings, and the occasional chengyu idiom all show up in our culture lessons.
It's the dessert course of language learning.
Learn the language, collect the jokes.
Idioms, rhymes, and wordplay
Want a story?
Flashcards that don’t suck.
Steal the words from the stories — then flip them till they stick.
Open Yak Cards
240 Traditional Chinese lessons. Jump in, or pick any one.
Audio, a short story, and a line you can record. Free. Start at lesson 1 of 240, or open the full list.
