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Mandarin Learner Completes Extreme One Month Anki Challenge (Podcast)
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*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 your Mandarin learning. Anki is a Spaced Repetition flashcards program that enables you to drill and create flashcards to aid your memory’s retention of new information. And my…
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Fluent Mandarin Star Uses Sentence Mining to Learn Spanish (Podcast)
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*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Today’s podcast episode features a Chinese learning superstar who should need no introduction. Will Hart, created waves in the Mandarin learning community when he reached an incredible level of fluency in just 1.5 years while living in the UK during the Covid pandemic. In today’s episode,…
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How to Build Your Perfect Step-By-Step Mandarin Learning Plan
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Will Hart is an Educator, fluent Chinese speaker. In this blog post, he lays out the building blocks all learners can use to create an effective Mandarin learning plan. In this blog post, we will cover how to build an evidence-based language learning routine to help you in your Mandarin journey. We’ll cover the four…
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From Mandarin Learner to Teacher & Instagram Star (Podcast)
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*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 been learning Chinese since 2013. Like me, she initially began learning outside China, and is full of insights based on her experience of overcoming barriers on the path to spoken…
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My Top Five Podcasts For Learning Mandarin at an Intermediate to Advanced Level
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In previous posts, I’ve discussed how listening to podcasts has played a crucial role in my Mandarin learning. There are two reasons why I value podcasts so highly as a tool for learning to speak Chinese. The first is that they typically contain informal, natural language and expose us to how native speakers express themselves…
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Insights from a Lifelong Mandarin Learner (Podcast)
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*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 1980s. Stacy Bridges, from the US, began learning Mandarin at school and has continued studying the language on and off ever since. He recently attended one of our Q&A…
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Learning to Listen: The Neuroscience of Language Learning
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Duncan Parrish is an I’m Learning Mandarin contributor and coordinator of Arti Languages, a project using mobile games and cognitive science to enhance how we immerse in Chinese. In this post, he delves deep into what neuroscience research tells us about the way adults learn Mandarin. “Let me tell you a story about my childhood…
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How to Get Hooked on Mandarin Learning (Podcast)
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*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google One of the most rewarding parts of running this podcast and creating Mandarin-learning content is receiving messages from learners whose lives have been changed in profound ways after taking our learning advice. Recently this podcast has featured several of these inspiring stories, and today’s episode features…
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Channeling Jealousy into Curiosity is the Key to Mandarin Progress (Podcast)
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*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google On today’s podcast episode, I have a really insightful chat with one of my students on my coaching programme, Lewys Thomas. Lewys has been learning Chinese for a few years but recently realised that, despite getting a tonne of input, his speaking skills weren’t improving. After…
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Is Anki The Best App for Learning Mandarin?
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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 flashcard app Anki and assesses whether Anki really is, as some say, the best app to learn Mandarin. Table of Contents: Introduction: Discovering Anki and Sentence Mining I first started learning…
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