As part of our Embrace the Embarrassing Moments series, we feature a reader’s story about an embarrassing moment from when they were learning Chinese. Today’s story especially hits home for me – I’ve definitely made the same sort of mistake more than once! Enjoy! During the first time I was working in China (when my [...]

As part of our Embrace the Embarrassing Moments series, we feature a reader’s story about an embarrassing moment from when they were learning Chinese. Of course, the point of it is not to laugh at the reader but to celebrate embarrassing moments, which can actually be helpful to learning Chinese. Enjoy! “My first Chinese Teacher’s name [...]