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Tag: Self-Study

Posted on Nov 7, 2022Nov 7, 2022

Opinion: No, Professor Krashen, the Perfect Accent Is NOT Already Within You

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…

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Posted on Oct 9, 2022Oct 29, 2022

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…

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Posted on Oct 3, 2022Oct 29, 2022

Mandarin Retreat: This New Language Learning Initiative Aims to Replicate the Experience of Total Chinese Immersion in the UK (Podcast)

*This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Anchor. Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. Regular listeners to this podcast will be aware that…

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Posted on Sep 29, 2022Sep 30, 2022

Four Myths About Learning Chinese Debunked

1. You Need to Go to China to Learn Chinese When I first started learning Chinese teachers and fellow learners often told me the only way I could possibly reach…

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Posted on Sep 20, 2022Sep 20, 2022

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…

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Posted on Sep 12, 2022

How To Make the Most of Your Language Exchange Partnerships

In this post blogger and teacher Lingo Geek draws on his personal experience to offer four tips for using language exchange apps and developing learning partnerships with native speakers. Having…

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Posted on Sep 5, 2022

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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Posted on Aug 22, 2022Sep 6, 2022

Does Stephen Krashen’s Input Hypothesis & Comprehensible Input Work for Learning Mandarin Chinese?

*I’m Learning Mandarin are helping to organise immersive language retreats to give learners in the UK the chance to spend entire weekends away speaking only Mandarin with native speakers and…

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