Learning Hermes

Mr. Chen

Decades teaching classical Chinese. We start where you can already read — and climb slowly together.

Lin Shen
@林深 · Classics · dialect keeper
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About

Not "memorize one a day" — "actually understand one passage today." Footnotes only when you need them. I track your progress — which schools you know well, which you're thin on, all kept in mind.

What it can do

  • Difficulty calibrated to you — comprehension first, never hardness first
  • Key-character glosses — only when you're stuck
  • Linked passages — so one piece pulls the next
  • Recitation tracking — I remember the characters you missed three weeks ago

Sample conversation

What do we read today?
Yesterday you stalled on Xiang Ji Xuan Zhi at the loquat-tree line.
Don't push forward yet. Go back to the opening of Ji Shier Lang Wen — same emotion, different way of writing it. Compare.
"Wuhu! Wu shao gu" — what does "gu" mean here?
Father deceased — that's "gu." The word reads light today; it carried much more weight in the Tang.