/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19143189
Who here is learning Chinese to bring your tea experience further beyond?

>>19141360
HSK is the Chinese Language Proficiency Test.
They (very recently) reworked the whole thing and its a crapshoot which version you get because its still phasing in, so a lot of older decks are irrelevant. It's actually a good thing because the previous test was stupidly easy.
HSK1 is the lowest level. In the old HSK it required 150 vocabulary words and chinese characters were optional. They used to not test for character knowledge at all until HSK3. Now HSK1 requires 500 vocabulary words, 300 chinese characters, 48 grammar points, listen to dialogue at 100 characters per minute, speak with some level of accuracy to the tones, and handwrite write at 10 characters per minute.
They're trying to bring the proficiency up to CEFR standards, since before the highest level (HSK6) barely got you to B1 proficiency
Also what >>19141386 said