About

Welcome to my website.

There are three types of articles on this blog. The first type are my random thoughts about language learning (mostly Mandarin Chinese) and language related interviews, which can be mostly found under 'Language learning strategies' or 'Learning Mandarin' labels. The second type are translations of Classical Chinese texts into English or other languages and their analysis, which can be found under 'Classical Chinese - 文言文'. The third type of articles are my seemingly endless analytic struggles with Mandarin Chinese, where I try to analyze the Chinese script, character efficiency or character frequency. You can find these articles under the 'Chinese characters' label.

Apart from this blog I also started a youtube channel with Chinese character explanation videos, where I try to explain how to write the characters, which elements they are made up of, their history and usage. Feel free to visit it if you like. 

About me:

I am a graduate of International relations and Chinese studies, currently living in Slovakia working as a language consultant, translator and interpreter

I was born in Slovakia and lived in different parts of Europe for the most part in Slovakia, Czech republic, Austria, Great Britain, France and Italy and outside of Europe in USA, Russia and Taiwan. 

You can contact me at vladimir(at)foreverastudent.com or leave a comment on under any of the articles. I reply to every email I get, but unfortunately for some reason, sometimes not all emails make it into my inbox. If I don't reply to you, please let me know by leaving a comment at the bottom of this page.

Vladimir