most efficient way today to learn Chinese good day guys. For another day of bad ass language learning, may the force be with you. i got asked this question a few times by friends recently who want to learn a bit of chinese, mostly for business reasons, and find that as one advances from the "how are you"s to the more complicated vocabulary and expressions, it's a bit challenging. my advice is simple, try to read articles that are very short and try to read as many of them as possible. So basically, read Twitter. Or, the chinese version, WEIBO.com The thing with Weibo as it is with Twitter is that the language usually borders between written and colloquial, and as the twits at a certain time usually circles around several trending topics, that's just a super efficient way to get exposed asap. for linguistic geeks: since the structure of the chinese language is additive, meaning you express future tense or past tense not by changing the verb itself but by adding additional words to it, weibo would be beneficial for its compact language use, often stripped of unnecessary decorative words to the bare minimum for idea expression. good luck.