Tag: Chinese listening

  • Your Ultimate Guide to Mastering Chinese Listening in Five Steps

    Your Ultimate Guide to Mastering Chinese Listening in Five Steps

    Of the four core language learning skills – listening, reading, speaking and writing – I’ve found listening to be the toughest to crack. For long periods during the five years I’ve been learning Mandarin, mastering Chinese listening felt like an impossible task. Yet I’ve now reached a stage where listening when conversing with native speakers…

  • Tolerating Ambiguity: How to Cope With Not Understanding Chinese (Podcast)

    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 language where we can understand almost everything perfectly.  To go from that to suddenly being bombarded with words, phrases and grammatical contractions that are totally alien and incomprehensible to us can…

  • Mastering Chinese Listening with Lei Lei (Podcast)

    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 about the process of learning Chinese to a high level. After stumbling across Lei Lei’s blog a couple of months ago there were a couple of themes I thought…

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