Christmas Raffle: Win Twelve Chinese Graded Readers!
I’ve previously written about how graded readers helped me as an elementary Chinese learner. However, over the past two years I have progressed to working with native materials such as…
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Expectations Vs Reality of Learning Chinese (With Luke Truman)
*This podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Pocket Casts and Breaker. Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. On today’s podcast I discuss…
Learning Mandarin in a Pandemic (Podcast)
*The I’m Learning Mandarin Podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts as well as Spotify. If you enjoyed this content please subscribe on your favourite podcast provider and leave a…
Letting Go of Mandarin Learning Delusions
Around a year ago I fell into a common trap for Mandarin learners. I started to prematurely believe that I was on the verge of becoming “fluent” in the language.…
Immersion Vs Structured Learning (Podcast)
Anyone who studies a language has to combine a mixture of approaches which broadly fall into two categories: naturalistic and structured. Naturalistic approaches involve learning through immersion in the target…
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