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 Mandarin learner which aspect of…
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Four Things to Look For in a Good Chinese Tutor (and What to Avoid)
Searching for a Chinese tutor online can be a headache. Whilst there are plenty of online apps and websites pairing language learners with tutors it can take a while before…
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’s podcast, I chat with a very…
The 5 Most Common Chinese Learning Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them
(Illustrations by Esther Birts) A large part of my motivation for writing this blog is to discuss mistakes I’ve made in my approaches to learning Chinese and document the process…
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’s episode we delve into one of…
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. I’ll be posting both interviews…
Mental Health & the Psychological Highs and Lows of Learning Chinese (Podcast)
*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. Many listeners of this podcast…
Guest Post: Learning Chinese Taught Me To Be Comfortable Making A Fool Of Myself
Many Chinese learners feel embarrassed when speaking the language in front of others and are afraid of being judged negatively for making mistakes. In this guest post language teacher and…
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