Chinese on Bill Glover

Friend's Tea - Chapter 8 (我要回家了)

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:56:30 +0100

I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey.

Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 8 (我要回家了)
Source: Du Chinese
Level: Elementary

Friend's Tea - Chapter 7 (新的开始)

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:49:59 +0100

I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey.

Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 7 (新的开始)
Source: Du Chinese
Level: Elementary

Friend's Tea - Chapter 6 (新朋友大红)

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0100

I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey.

Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 6 (新朋友大红)
Source: Du Chinese
Level: Elementary

Friend's Tea - Chapter 5 (小绿不高兴)

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0100

I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey.

Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 5 (小绿不高兴)
Source: Du Chinese
Level: Elementary

Friend's Tea - Chapter 4 (明明和希希)

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:39:32 +0100

I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey.

Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 4 (明明和希希)
Source: Du Chinese
Level: Elementary

Friend's Tea - Chapter 3 (山，在身后了)

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:29:11 +0100

I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey.

Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 3 (山，在身后了)
Source: Du Chinese
Level: Elementary

Friend's Tea - Chapter 2 (他们是谁)

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:53:35 +0100

I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey.

Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 2 (他们是谁)
Source: Du Chinese
Level: Elementary

Friend's Tea - Chapter 1 (小绿的家)

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:09:45 +0100

I aim to improve my Chinese reading through regular practice. This video represents a point on that journey.

Text: Friend’s Tea - Chapter 1 (小绿的家)
Source: Du Chinese
Level: Elementary

A moment of pride: unexpected compliments

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:00:00 +0000

A rare moment of pride. My son picked out one of the slips in our family gratitude jar and read it without hesitation. His reading is really coming along. But it was conclusion that had me smiling more than anything:

“Mum your Chinese writing is so good.”

I have to keep working on it though. His writing (second strip) is catching up fast.

Inner Loop / Outer Loop - What's in a Translation?

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:17:26 +0700

Assumed Audience: anyone with an interest in translation or Mandarin Chinese

Two photos of a map of Beijing Subway Line 10 showing the translations for directions of travel.

I came across an interesting translation on the Line 10 subway in Beijing today.

Learning to write Chinese: Emoji to the Rescue

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +0000

秋、秋、愁、利、揪、香

During lockdown I’ve been learning to write Chinese characters. I’ve been making slow but consistent progress. More importanly, I’ve been enjoying it again. Some characters are definitely easier to recall than others. As it turns out, emoji can be a great way to represent the stories I’ve used to get some of the characters to stick.

秋： 🌾 🔥

Think of the farmer who spends “autumn” throwing left over rice on the fire to burn it before it rots during winter.

Chinese Practice Sheets

hello@bill.dev (Bill) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:16:35 +0000

I’ve been looking to start practising my Chinese more deliberately than I have been, particularly my character recognition. I couldn’t find any character practice sheets that I liked and so I made a couple of my own.

Chinese character practice sheets

Both standard and dark mode are available below in PDF format and can be printed out or used as the background to many iPad drawing apps.