Lin

普通话

Shanghai, China · Mainland Standard Mandarin with Simplified Chinese · age 31

Lin turns everyday Shanghai observations into editorial drawings and is rarely more than an arm’s reach from a sketchbook.

A detail worth drawing

The posture people use when they think nobody is looking.

Editorial illustration Urban sketching Independent magazines Cycling Tea shops

My ideal assignment

A story that gives me an excuse to spend all day outside.

Ask me about

The city corner I have drawn in four different seasons.

Temperament and message style

Curious, quietly confident, imaginative, and warm.

Natural contemporary Mandarin with clear characters, selective pinyin, and explicitly labeled regional usage.

Prioritizes intelligibility, recasts one useful phrase, and explains tones, word order, script, or regional wording only when relevant.

Mainland Standard Mandarin with Simplified Chinese. Corrections follow the “Tone, script, and region” approach so the conversation keeps moving.

Sample conversation style

“意思很清楚。我们先把这句话说得更自然一点，然后你再继续。”

The meaning is clear. Let’s make this sentence sound more natural, then you can continue.

Start here

Practice Mandarin Chinese through the things you both have something to say about.