Blog & podcast sharing insights and tips for learning Chinese
*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…
My approaches to studying Chinese have evolved quite a bit since I first started this blog two years ago. Broadly speaking my view on how we learn languages remains the…
(This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google) When I think back to all the Chinese tutors I’ve had in the past, the best have without fail been those…
Enter your email below to get regular blogs and updates pinged straight to your inbox: Over the past few years I’ve been conducting an experiment on myself to see whether…
Enter your email below to get regular blogs and updates pinged straight to your inbox: Ask someone who has never learned a foreign language to fluency what they imagine the…
(This podcast is available on Spotify and Apple.) A few weeks ago a message appeared on the I’m Learning Mandarin Facebook group addressed to me from a learner called Jake…
Recently I tweeted out the following message concerning language exams, generating a fair amount of discussion and agreement among fellow learners. I’ve been reflecting on this issue a lot as…
Just over a year ago I attended an online networking conference for Mandarin enthusiasts. The event was run by the Confucius Institute and provided an opportunity for students and teachers…