My Full Asiaglot Speech: The Inconvenient Truth about Mandarin Learning (Podcast)
On today's episode, I'm going to play my speech, which I recently made at the Asiaglot conference in Taipei. The speech was called The Inconvenient Tr…
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Conversations with linguists, polyglots, app makers, and pioneering learners.
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Prof Clare Wright: Why Some Learners Succeed While Others Lag Behind (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify On today’s episode, I interview a long-time member of the I’m Learning Mandarin community who also happ…
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How my Student Founded Asia's Hottest Languages Conference (Podcast)
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 Mand…
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My Four Coolest Mandarin Learning Moments (Podcast)
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 stru…
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Jared Turner on How He Created Mandarin Companion Graded Readers
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 le…
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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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Former NASA Employee Applies Engineering Approach to Mandarin learning (Podcast)
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…
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Interview with Karen Cheuk from Happy Mandarin
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Today's guest is Karen Cheuk, an inspiring educator behind Happy Mandarin, an organization that helps c…
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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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Learning Chinese with Amanda Miss Panda (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Welcome to the podcast! Today's guest is Amanda, better known as "Miss Panda," a renowned expert in Man…
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Maintaining your Mandarin Skills Outside China: Interview with Jorrit (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In this episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with Jorrit, a Dutch blogger and the creator of the Ka…
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Special Live Q&A: Ask Me Anything with Will Hart
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In this episode, I share our special live q&a session with Will Hart. Will should need no introduction…
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Live Q&A: How to Fix your Chinese Tones (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In this episode, we bring you the recording of our October 20th session where we tackled questions on h…
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Do you Have to Memorise the Tones for All Your Chinese Vocab? (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In this episode, I dive into one of the most common questions Mandarin learners face: Do you really nee…
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Live Q&A: How To Practice Mandarin Speaking Early On (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In a recent episode, we announced the launch of our Discord Server. In just over a week we’ve seen the…
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How Joshua Lykes is Learning Chinese Through AI (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google On today’s episode, I interview Joshua Lykes, an up-and-coming YouTuber whose recent videos on…
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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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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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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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Fluent Mandarin Star Uses Sentence Mining to Learn Spanish (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Today's podcast episode features a Chinese learning superstar who should need no introduction.…
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From Mandarin Learner to Teacher & Instagram Star (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google On today’s episode, I speak to Kristen, a Mandarin speaker and teacher from Canada. Kristen has…
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Insights from a Lifelong Mandarin Learner (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google My guest on today’s podcast can trace his Mandarin learning journey all the way back to the 198…
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How to Get Hooked on Mandarin Learning (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google One of the most rewarding parts of running this podcast and creating Mandarin-learning content…
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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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Practicing Output is Every Bit as Important as Comprehensible Input (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google A few weeks ago, I received a message from an I'm Learning Mandarin listener from the US called…
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How to Practice Speaking: Live Q&A with Will & Mischa (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google If you've listened to this podcast for long, you'll know that our purpose here is to support le…
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From Zero to Fluent in Two Years. I'm Learning Mandarin Listener Nails Spoken Mandarin (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Hello and welcome to another episode of the I’m Learning Mandarin podcast. On today’s podcast,…
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The History of Chinese Attitudes Towards Mandarin Speaking Foreigners (Podcast)
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mi-kai/episodes/The-history-of-Chinese-attitudes-to-Mandarin-speaking-foreigners-e2jd8eg/a-ab8dg5t This podcas…
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The American Professor Who Performed Live Mandarin Comedy in Front of a Billion People (podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google My guest today is David Moser, an Associate Professor at Beijing Capital Normal University. He'…
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This Bully Nearly Made Me Give Up Chinese! (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In today's episode of the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast I tell a story in Chinese about bullying and la…
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Building an App to Achieve Native Chinese Reading Skills (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google My guest on today’s podcast is computer scientist and educational technologist, Emmanuel Roche.…
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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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This Fluent Mandarin Speaker Worked for Google on Speech Recognition Systems (podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google On today’s podcast, I speak to language teacher and podcast host, Isaac Myers. Isaac has a fasc…
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How to Stay Motivated When Learning Chinese (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google On today’s episode, I speak to Sara Jaaksola, A Ph.D. researcher and Chinese teacher originally…
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How did people learn languages in centuries gone by? (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google If you google “what’s the best way to learn a language”, you’ll be bombarded with hundreds of d…
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How Much do Chinese Tones Actually Matter? Interview with Rob Neal (podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Most of my guests on this podcast have had experience and success in either learning Chinese, t…
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The Ultimate Chinese Learning Adventure (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Today’s podcast episode is all about Carolina Navarro, a language educator from Spain whose Chi…
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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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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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Learn Chinese With Instagram Star Jiaqi Laoshi (Podcast)
(This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google) When I think back to all the Chinese tutors I’ve had in the past, the best have without fail…
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How Overcoming Chinese Speaking Fears Led to a Life Changing Experience (Podcast)
(This podcast is available on Spotify and Apple.) A few weeks ago a message appeared on the I’m Learning Mandarin Facebook group addressed to me from…
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Refold: Making Immersive Language Learning Mainstream (Podcast)
On to today’s podcast! On today's episode, I speak to Ethan, the CEO of Refold, an immersion-based language learning system that offers a guide and a…
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Tolerating Ambiguity: How to Cope With Not Understanding Chinese (Podcast)
New language learners often find it difficult to cope with the experience of not understanding. We’re used to being in situations in our native langua…
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How to Overcome the Problem of Chinese Tones (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Anchor. Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. If you ask any…
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What's the Big Deal About Sentence Mining? (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Anchor. Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. Last Christmas…
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Benny Lewis on Learning Chinese, Embracing Mistakes & Why He's Not a Language Learner (Podcast)
On today’s episode, I interview arguably the world’s most popular language learner, the one and only Benny Lewis. To many listeners, Benny or Benny th…
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Enter This Chinese Writing Contest & Become a Published Mandarin Author (Podcast)
On today’s episode, I talk to April Zhang, an inspirational Mandarin teacher and founder of the Chinese teaching website MSL Master. April is also the…
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How to Achieve a Near Native Chinese Accent with Professor Karen Chung (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Anchor. Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. On today’…
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How This Medical Student Became Totally Fluent in Chinese Within One Year While Living in the UK (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Anchor. Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. On today’…
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Interviewing This Master of Oral Chinese Made Me Rethink Everything I Believed About Language Learning
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing two fascinating guests on my podcast, both of whom have achieved unusually high levels of spoken Mandarin…
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Mental Health & the Psychological Highs and Lows of Learning Chinese (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Many listeners of this podcast are people who, like me, get immense joy and gratificatio…
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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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Matt Vs Japan on Input, Stephen Krashen, Why Accents Matter & Much More (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. On today’s podcast we have a very special guest, the YouTube superstar and fluent Japane…
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Debate: Is Talent A Factor in Language Learning Success? (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. On today's episode, I debate the concept of language talent with two guests. Yong Jun is…
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Is Chinese Harder Than Other Languages? Interview with Langaholic (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. It’s often said that people shouldn’t compare different languages with each other or sa…
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Mastering Chinese Listening with Lei Lei (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. My guest on this episode is Lei Lei, a blogger and Mandarin Chinese learner who writes…
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“Wow! Your Mandarin is Awesome!” Decoding Chinese Politeness (Podcast)
Anyone who has learned Mandarin will be familiar with how encouraging Chinese people tend to be towards those of us who take an interest in their lang…
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Benjamin Zephaniah on Learning Mandarin (Podcast)
This podcast is also available Apple Podcasts. For Today’s podcast, I had the honour of interviewing a very distinguished guest. Benjamin Zephaniah is…
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Expectations Vs Reality of Learning Chinese (With Luke Truman)
This podcast is also available on Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. On today's podcast, I discuss how expectations often differ from reality when learning…
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Leaning Chinese with Graded Readers (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. On today’s episode, I discuss a topic I have previously blogged about: graded readers. F…
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Key Predictors of Mandarin Success (Podcast)
This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Pocket Casts and Breaker. On today’s episode, I discuss learning Mandarin with a ma…
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Cracking the Intermediate Plateau (Podcast)
https://anchor.fm/mi-kai/episodes/Overcoming-the-Intermediate-Plateau-e1751as/a-a65lkr4 The I’m Learning Mandarin Podcast is now available on Apple Po…
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Learning Mandarin in a Pandemic (Podcast)
The I'm Learning Mandarin Podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts as well as Spotify. The global pandemic has had a profound influence on the way w…
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Immersion Vs Structured Learning (Podcast)
https://anchor.fm/mi-kai/episodes/Acquiring-Mandarin-Naturalistic-Immersion-or-Structured-Learning-e150c4i Anyone who studies a language has to combin…
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My Chinese Learning Podcast Interview
Recently I went on the excellent You Can Learn Chinese podcast where I was interviewed about my motivations for learning Mandarin as well as my tips f…
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