{"id":1153,"date":"2023-10-13T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T09:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/cl-150-bulletin\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2023-10-13T09:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T09:51:58","slug":"chinese-30x30-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/cl-150-bulletin\/2023\/10\/13\/chinese-30x30-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese 30&#215;30 Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to learn Chinese, but\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u23f3 \u00a0you don\u2019t have time<br \/>\n?\u200d\u2640\ufe0f you think it\u2019s too hard<br \/>\n? you\u2019ve learned before but now you\u2019re too rusty<\/p>\n<p>All of those problems: not a problem!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Join the Chinese 30&#215;30 Challenge<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The goal of the challenge: make Mandarin manageable.<\/p>\n<p>In just 30 minutes per day for 30 days, you&#8217;ll be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify 40 common\u00a0<strong>radicals\u00a0<\/strong>so you can read Chinese characters<\/li>\n<li>Recognize all 400+\u00a0<strong>pinyin\u00a0<\/strong>syllables so you can refine your pronunciation &amp; type and text in Chinese characters<\/li>\n<li>Decipher the 5 Chinese\u00a0<strong>tones\u00a0<\/strong>so you&#8217;ll never mistake\u00a0m\u0101 (mother) for\u00a0m\u01ce (horse)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What even are radicals, tones, and pinyin? 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