Is Taiwan a Good Place to Study Mandarin?
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In this week's episode, I delve deeper into the experience of studying and living in Taiwan, specifical…
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Life in China & Taiwan
Retreats, immersion experiences, and the culture you can't get from a textbook.
15 posts
My Experience at Asiaglot: Asia's Hottest Multilingual Conference
Last week I participated in Asiaglot, a new multilingual conference in Taipei. I first heard about Asiaglot a few months ago when Philipp Marxen, a gr…
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Chris Foley's Mandarin Speaking Diary: My Immersive Trip to China (Month 3)
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his tone pronunciation, and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cere…
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Reflecting on Five Days of Pure Mandarin Immersion with Will Hart (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Last week I attended a five-day immersive Mandarin Retreat Summer Camp as a lead organiser. A g…
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5 Things I Learned From 5 Days of Total Mandarin Immersion
I've just returned from five glorious summer days in Cheddar, UK, where I was leading our annual Mandarin Retreat Summer Camp. I began organising Mand…
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Three Things You Need To Know Before You Study Chinese in Taiwan (Podcast)
Recently I decided to commit to producing the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast once a week instead of fortnightly. The plan is to continue posting guest…
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Reflecting on 2023 in Taiwan & Plans for 2024!
2023 has been an eventful year, both in terms of my own Mandarin learning journey as well as the Chinese education projects I’ve been involved with! A…
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My Photo Diary from Five Days Speaking Only Chinese on Mandarin Retreat Summer Camp
In this guest post, blogger and Mandarin Retreat volunteer Lingo Geek publishes his photo diary from five days spent speaking only Chinese on a recent…
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Catch-up with Will Hart: Nailing Sentence Structure & Visiting China for the First Time (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google One year ago I interviewed someone who totally transformed my perspective on learning to speak…
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Can You Learn Mandarin From Outside Chinese Speaking Countries? Yes, Here’s Why
Ask someone who has never learned a foreign language to fluency what they imagine the best way to do so might be and many will reply: “Go and live in…
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The Valuable Lesson I Learned Buying Snacks at Taiwan's Night Markets
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been travelling around Taiwan, visiting various towns and cities in the south of the country. As I wrote previousl…
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Four Things I’ve Learned From My First Week Living in Taiwan
Last week I moved to Taiwan to travel and study Chinese for six months. Although I have been to Taipei before, this is my first time doing so as a Man…
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2023 Chinese Learning Plans: I'm Moving to Taiwan!
Over the past few weeks, I haven’t posted quite as often as previously. There are two main reasons for this. The first is that I was struggling with m…
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The Beginner's Guide To Surviving a Weekend of Total Chinese Immersion
Lingo Geek is a language blogger, teacher and volunteer at Mandarin Retreat, organising immersive weekend trips for Chinese learners in the UK. In thi…
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I Tasted Full Immersion for the First Time on a Weekend Mandarin Retreat (And You Can Too)
I’m Learning Mandarin are helping organise immersive language retreats to give learners in the UK the chance to spend entire weekends away speaking on…
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