Thanks to These Apps Self-Studying Chinese is Much Easier Than Ten Years Ago
It’s easy to forget that ten years ago I – and many people around me – didn’t own a smart phone. At that time the most impressive thing I could…
Blog & podcast sharing insights and tips for learning Chinese
It’s easy to forget that ten years ago I – and many people around me – didn’t own a smart phone. At that time the most impressive thing I could…
Towards the end of last year I wrote a blog setting out my objective for 2022. In it I stated that by 2023 I hope to have developed enough confidence…
Anyone who has learned Mandarin will be familiar with how encouraging Chinese people tend to be towards those of us who take an interest in their language. For the most…
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*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. On today’s podcast I discuss…
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Anyone who studies a language has to combine a mixture of approaches which broadly fall into two categories: naturalistic and structured. Naturalistic approaches involve learning through immersion in the target…
*For a more recent progress update report check out this blog which includes recordings of me conversing in Mandarin. A little over two years ago I wrote a blog documenting…