Month: June 2023
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You Don’t Understand Everything In Your Native Language. Stop Trying To Do So In Chinese
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One of my most misguided thought patterns when learning Chinese involved the belief that my ultimate goal must be to understand everything. This was the case at the start when I couldn’t understand anything. But it became even more of a problem through the intermediate plateau as my goals became more ambitious. When I came…
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How this Learner Fulfilled her Ambition of Becoming a Chinese Teacher (Podcast)
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(This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify) Welcome back to another episode of the I’m Learning Mandarin Podcast. It’s been a while since I recorded the last one but we’re back and planning regular episodes over the coming weeks and months. Today we speak to Pamela Rose, an educator and Mandarin teacher with a…
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Why I Never Use The CEFR Framework to Measure my Chinese Proficiency
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Last week I started a discussion thread on the LingQ open forum in which I expressed my surprise at how popular the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) is among language learners and tutors. In the past, I’ve tended to avoid describing my own Chinese level according to the framework because I don’t think doing…
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