
I Tasted Full Immersion for the First Time on a Weekend Mandarin Retreat (And You Can Too)
*I’m Learning Mandarin are organising immersive language retreats to give learners in the UK the chance to spend entire weekends away speaking only Mandarin with native speakers and advanced learners. To register your interest please complete this survey and to learn more about these events check out this blog. — As a Chinese learner based…

What’s the Big Deal About Sentence Mining? (Podcast)
This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Anchor. Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. Last Christmas I set myself a new year’s resolution to improve my spoken Chinese to the point where I’d feel comfortable recording podcast interviews in Mandarin. Of all the methods I’ve used this year…

Watch this Beautiful Animated Short Story & Discover the Key to Persevering in Your Chinese Studies
In this post, language teacher and I’m Learning Mandarin blogger Lingo Geek reflects on the striking parallels between the classic tale, The Man Who Planted Trees, and his own Chinese learning path Recently I watched a beautiful animation based on the classic short story The Man Who Planted Trees. For those unfamiliar with the plot,…

Benny Lewis on Learning Chinese, Embracing Mistakes & Why He’s Not a Language Learner (Podcast)
On today’s episode I interview arguably the world’s most popular language learner, the one and only Benny Lewis. To many listeners, Benny or Benny the Irish Polyglot as he’s also known, will need no introduction. He first began blogging over a decade ago at a time when the online language learning community was still in…
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