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…
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google On today’s podcast, I speak to language teacher and podcast host, Isaac Myers. Isaac has a fascinating Mandarin learning backstory which…
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google On today’s episode, I speak to Sara Jaaksola, A Ph.D. researcher and Chinese teacher originally from Finland Sara first moved to…
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…
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google If you google “what’s the best way to learn a language”, you’ll be bombarded with hundreds of different methods, each claiming…
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Most of my guests on this podcast have had experience and success in either learning Chinese, teaching Chinese or researching Chinese.…
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…
I’ve often heard learners and teachers alike say Mandarin grammar is ‘simple.’ Unlike European languages, they point out that there are no genders, verb conjugations or plurals to worry about.…