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Learn basic Chinese with Hailey and Adam through their language crash course. The couple is American-born, yet fluent in Chinese, so they often get asked how they were able to learn the language.

Michel Hockx works for an institution (SOAS, University of London) which offers Chinese language teaching. In 2012, he was briefly director of a Confucius Institute. I found myself in wholehearted ...