Author: Mischa Wilmers

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify A few months ago I interviewed Philipp Marxen on the podcast about his Anki challenge for learning Mandarin. Shortly after that Philipp signed up to my coaching programme to improve his Mandarin speaking. And since graduating from the programme, he’s moved to Taiwan where he’s been busy…

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Mandarin involves a lot of hard work and sometimes we can start to question whether it’s worth the struggle. But staying the course and persevering through the hard times has enabled me to have all sorts of life experiences that I would otherwise never have had. Today…

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Over the next few weeks I’ll be taking the I’m Learning Mandarin podcast in a slightly different direction from previously. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been interviewing lots of fascinating guests providing great solutions to commonly faced Mandarin learning problems. Guests like Jared Turner of Mandarin…

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Today on the podcast, I’m speaking with Jake Gill from Skritter, one of the most well-known apps for learning to write Chinese characters. Skritter has been around for years, helping learners improve their handwriting and character recognition through a unique combination of spaced repetition and stroke-by-stroke feedback.…

Over the years I’ve used a number of Mandarin Chinese learning apps with mixed results. Some of them, I credit with playing a significant role in enabling me to reach conversational fluency in the language. Others, I found to be largely a waste of time. In this post, I’m going to compare the two apps…

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Today, I’m joined by a special guest on the podcast, Jared Turner from Mandarin Companion. If you’re learning Chinese, you’ve probably heard of Mandarin Companion’s graded readers, which make it possible to read Mandarin from an elementary level. I used them a lot in my own learning…

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify On today’s episode, I’m joined by Sarah Aberman, co-founder of Ninchanese, an app that makes learning Mandarin fun and accessible through gamified lessons and interactive tools. I found Ninchanese particularly effective when transitioning between elementary and intermediate levels. The gamified elements, progressing through story-driven levels with graded…

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify On today’s episode of I’m Learning Mandarin, I speak to Peter Olson, the founder of Dong Chinese. Dong Chinese is an all-in-one Chinese learning app that enables learners to learn sentences in context using spaced repetition. In the episode, we discuss Peter’s own background. Peter was actually…

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Ash Henson is the co-founder of Outlier Linguistics, a company dedicated to creating tools and courses that make learning Chinese and other languages more effective and engaging. Outlier specialise in facilitating the language learning process by breaking down the complexities of the language, including Chinese characters. And…

*This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Today’s guest is Karen Cheuk, an inspiring educator behind Happy Mandarin, an organization that helps children learn Chinese in a fun and engaging environment. Karen was born and raised in Hong Kong and went on to study at Cambridge University on a scholarship. After graduating and having…