How this Deaf Mandarin Learner Perfected Chinese Tones (Podcast)
*This episode is available to listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. On today’s podcast, I speak to James Wong, a commercial model and influencer from the UK who has an incredible story of overcoming adversity to become fluent in Chinese. James’ dad is from Hong Kong but moved to the UK as a…
How the Dunning Kruger Effect Makes Chinese Learners Overestimate Their Skills
Will Hart is an Educator, fluent Chinese speaker and I’m Learning Mandarin contributor. In this blog post, he explains how a psychological phenomenon known as the Dunning Kruger effect led him to overestimate his ability at an intermediate level in Chinese. He offers three key lessons Chinese learners can take from his experience. The Dunning-Kruger…
The History of Chinese Attitudes Towards Mandarin Speaking Foreigners (Podcast)
*This podcast is available on Apple, Spotify and Google Two weeks ago I announced my plans to open up the I’m Learning Mandarin podcast to you, offering you the chance to record your own podcast episodes in Chinese to be broadcast on I’m Learning Mandarin. And since then several of you have been in contact…
The Fluency Simulator: Why You Should Get Into Intensive Listening (Again and Again)
Duncan Parrish is an I’m Learning Mandarin contributor and coordinator of Arti Languages, a project using mobile games and cognitive science to enhance how we immerse in Chinese. In this guest post, he introduces the concept of “The Fluency Simulator” and explains how repetitive listening activities develop our neural networks and second language comprehension skills.…
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