Chris's Diary Month 7: Dialing in the Tones and Preparing for New Challenges
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his pronunciation and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding ceremony.…
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Tones & Pronunciation
Mastering Mandarin tones, accent, and the path past fossilisation.
16 posts
75% of Learners Make these Chinese Tones Mistakes
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify In this episode, we’re diving into one of the most challenging parts of learning Mandarin: mastering tr…
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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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How I Accurately Mimic Full-Speed Mandarin In Four Simple Steps
This podcast is available on Apple and Spotify Recently a member of our Discord server posted a short clip of a native Mandarin speaker saying a sente…
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Your Ultimate Guide to Practicing the Tones of the Chinese Language
The tones of the Chinese language are often considered to be extremely difficult for non-native speakers to grasp. In this post I explain how I learne…
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How this Deaf Mandarin Learner Perfected Chinese Tones (Podcast)
This episode is available to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. On today’s podcast, I speak to James Wong, a commercial model and…
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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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Can You Really Be Understood If You Ignore Chinese Tones?
Recently I came across an interesting research paper investigating the popular claim that native speakers can still understand Mandarin learners who i…
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I Conducted an Experiment to See if I Could Overcome Chinese Accent Fossilisation. Here are the Results
Over the past few years, I've been conducting an experiment on myself to see whether it's possible to undo deeply entrenched Chinese pronunciation mis…
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Opinion: No, Professor Krashen, the Perfect Accent Is NOT Already Within You
Just over a year ago, I attended an online networking conference for Mandarin enthusiasts. The event was run by the Confucius Institute and provided a…
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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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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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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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Is Matt Vs Japan Right That Your Accent Really Matters?
A few days ago I had the pleasure of interviewing the accomplished Japanese learner and YouTube star Matt Vs Japan for the I’m Learning Mandarin podca…
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Improving my Spoken Mandarin with the Traffic Light System
Towards the end of last year, I wrote a blog setting out my objective for 2022. In it I stated that by 2023 I hope to have developed enough confidence…
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