Generate Mandarin Podcasts on any Topic with Mindblowing AI Tool
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In this episode, I’m sharing a tool that’s completely blown my mind, it might be one of the most impres…
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Anki, LingQ, Duolingo, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and the apps shaping how we learn.
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Using AI to Nail Daily Interactions in Mandarin
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Even with relatively fluent Mandarin, it can be easy to stumble in seemingly simple situations, buying…
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How to Generate Personalised Mandarin Tongue Twisters with AI
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Recently, I recorded a podcast episode on how to use Chinese AI, Deepseek, to boost your Mandarin learn…
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Why Deepseek is the Biggest Mandarin Learning Game Changer of 2025
This week on the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast, I discuss how you can use Deepseek as a game changing tool to become fluent in Chinese. As we've previ…
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How Jake Gill from Skritter Learned Chinese
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 le…
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Battle of the Apps: LingQ Premium Vs Duolingo
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 enab…
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Gamify your Chinese Learning with Ninchanese (Podcast)
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 M…
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Learning Mandarin with Dong Chinese (Podcast)
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…
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Interview with Michael Campbell from Glossika (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In this episode, I talk with Michael Campbell, a true language enthusiast and the founder of language l…
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Interview with Phil from Mandarin Blueprint (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify On today’s episode, I interview Phil Crimmins. Phil is one of the two minds behind Mandarin Blueprint,…
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Chinese TV Shows to Learn Chinese - Netflix
There are literally dozens of Chinese TV shows to learn Chinese on Netflix. And making use of these has had a huge impact on my ability to go from int…
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Launching New Sentence Mining App Mandarin Mosaic (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google My guest on this week’s episode is an app designer who has made several appearances here in the…
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Mandarin Learner Completes Extreme One Month Anki Challenge (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google In this podcast and on my blog, I've often discussed how Anki flashcards can be used to boost y…
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Is Anki The Best App for Learning Mandarin?
Karl Baker is a Mandarin learner, app developer, and regular contributor to I’m Learning Mandarin. In this post, he delves into the Spaced Repetition…
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App Developer Reveals 5 Tips for Chinese Sentence Mining (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google On today's podcast episode, app developer Karl Baker talks in Mandarin about his five top tips…
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Language exchange app leads composer to Chinese speaking breakthrough (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Recently on the I’m Learning Mandarin podcast, I’ve had the fortune of interviewing a number of…
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These Five Tech Breakthroughs Will Soon Make Mandarin Infinitely Easier To Learn
In a previous blog post, I discussed the major changes in technology which have revolutionised the way we learn Chinese over the past decade. From sma…
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Does ChatGPT Speak Authentic Chinese? The Results of My Study May Surprise You...
Karl Baker is a Mandarin learner, app developer, and regular contributor to I'm Learning Mandarin. He is working on developing the Chinese sentence-mi…
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Interview with Hacking Chinese Founder Olle Linge (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google In today’s episode, I interview one of my most hotly anticipated guests, the Mandarin educator,…
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Four Ways ChatGPT Can Give Your Chinese a Huge Boost
Since ChatGPT became publicly available last November it has allegedly grown in popularity at a faster rate than any other online app or service in th…
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The Final Verdict. How Effective is Duolingo Chinese? (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. On today’s podcast, we discuss the world’s most popular language app, Duolingo. I’ve lon…
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I Completed DuoLingo Chinese. Here's Why You Shouldn't
A few summers ago I became addicted to the language-learning app Duolingo. I was a complete beginner in Chinese having spent the previous year attendi…
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Thanks to These Apps Self-Studying Chinese is Much Easier Than Ten Years Ago
It's easy to forget that ten years ago I - and many people around me - didn’t own a smartphone. At that time the most impressive thing I could do on m…
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Learning Characters with Hack Chinese (Podcast)
One of the most daunting aspects of learning Chinese is the sheer number of characters required for basic literacy. It’s estimated that comfortably re…
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Using LingQ To Study Chinese
Over the years I have used several different language learning apps and websites. Out of all these online tools, LingQ has been the most beneficial to…
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