This Bully Nearly Made Me Give Up Chinese! (Podcast)
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google In today’s episode of the I’m Learning Mandarin podcast I tell a story in Chinese about bullying and language learning, based…
Blog & podcast sharing insights and tips for learning Chinese
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google In today’s episode of the I’m Learning Mandarin podcast I tell a story in Chinese about bullying and language learning, based…
In a previous post, I discussed why language proficiency tests are largely a waste of time as they distract you from working towards your real goals. Most learners dream of…
Chinese teachers are everywhere. There are thousands upon thousands of them. They can be found on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Italki… Anywhere you look, you’re sure to find one! Many…
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google In today’s episode, I interview one of my most hotly anticipated guests, the Mandarin educator, blogger and teacher, Olle Linge. Olle…
Recently I came across an interesting research paper investigating the popular claim that native speakers can still understand Mandarin learners who ignore tones. The paper is called Knocking tones off…
Recently the Times reported the number of British pupils studying foreign languages has more than halved over the last 20 years. Only 131,000 pupils took French GCSE this summer, down…
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google One year ago I interviewed someone who totally transformed my perspective on learning to speak Chinese. By now, listeners to this…
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 mistakes, otherwise known as fossilisation. For the…