Chris Foley’s Mandarin Speaking Journey: Mission Accomplished!
One year ago, Chris Foley set himself a challenge to transform his Mandarin and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cer...
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Can a Busy Dad Learn Mandarin in Just One Year?
Over the last 12 months, busy Welsh accountant and father to a young daughter, Lewys Thomas, has been working to improve his Mandarin speaking skills...
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Chris’s Diary Month 8 & 9: Untangling the Tongue Twisters
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his tone pronunciation, and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cere...
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Chris's Diary Month 7: Dialing in the Tones and Preparing for New Challenges
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his pronunciation and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding ceremony....
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How to Make the Most of Mandarin Language Exchange
If you’re not in the server, click the 'Discord' tab at the top of this blog. I definitely recommend checking it out. It’s a community of nearly 400 M...
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Getting Smart about Mandarin Listening
I chose this topic because listening is probably one of the areas that frustrates Mandarin learners more than any other. First, I want to talk about t...
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Generate Mandarin Podcasts on any Topic with Mindblowing AI Tool
It’s called Notebook LM, and it’s a website run by Google. Here’s what makes it so powerful: you can feed it any content: websites, text, even audio,...
Read more Chris's Mandarin Diary Month 6: My First Chinese Interview (Video)
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his tone pronunciation and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cerem...
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Is Taiwan a Good Place to Study Mandarin?
In this week's episode, I delve deeper into the experience of studying and living in Taiwan, specifically asking the question: Is Taiwan a good place...
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Using AI to Nail Daily Interactions in Mandarin
Even with relatively fluent Mandarin, it can be easy to stumble in seemingly simple situations, buying train tickets, ordering coffee, or understandin...
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How to Generate Personalised Mandarin Tongue Twisters with AI
Continuing this theme in this week's episode, I outline a really simple method that you can use to use AI to generate your very own Mandarin tongue tw...
Read more Chris Foley’s Mandarin Speaking Journey: Months 4 & 5
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his tone pronunciation, and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cere...
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My Full Asiaglot Speech: The Inconvenient Truth about Mandarin Learning (Podcast)
On today's episode, I'm going to play my speech, which I recently made at the Asiaglot conference in Taipei. The speech was called The Inconvenient Tr...
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Why Deepseek is the Biggest Mandarin Learning Game Changer of 2025
This week on the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast, I discuss how you can use Deepseek as a game changing tool to become fluent in Chinese. As we've previ...
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My Experience at Asiaglot: Asia's Hottest Multilingual Conference
Last week I participated in Asiaglot, a new multilingual conference in Taipei. I first heard about Asiaglot a few months ago when Philipp Marxen, a gr...
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Lewys's 6-Month Transformation to Conversational Mandarin (Video)
Over the last six months, Welsh accountant and father Lewys Thomas has been working to improve his Mandarin speaking skills with I'm Learning Mandarin...
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Prof Clare Wright: Why Some Learners Succeed While Others Lag Behind (Podcast)
Professor Clare Wright has pioneered research into second language pedagogy with a particular focus on Mandarin. She is particularly interested in dis...
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How my Student Founded Asia's Hottest Languages Conference (Podcast)
Shortly after that Philipp signed up to my coaching programme to improve his Mandarin speaking. And since graduating from the programme, he's moved to...
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My Four Coolest Mandarin Learning Moments (Podcast)
But staying the course and persevering through the hard times has enabled me to have all sorts of life experiences that I would otherwise never have h...
Read more Chris Foley's Mandarin Speaking Diary: My Immersive Trip to China (Month 3)
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his tone pronunciation, and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cere...
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Four Attitude Shifts You Need to Master Mandarin Speaking
Over the past few weeks, I've been interviewing lots of fascinating guests providing great solutions to commonly faced Mandarin learning problems. Gue...
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How Jake Gill from Skritter Learned Chinese
Skritter has been around for years, helping learners improve their handwriting and character recognition through a unique combination of spaced repeti...
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Battle of the Apps: LingQ Premium Vs Duolingo
Over the years I’ve used a number of Mandarin Chinese learning apps with mixed results. Some of them, I credit with playing a significant role in enab...
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Jared Turner on How He Created Mandarin Companion Graded Readers
If you’re learning Chinese, you’ve probably heard of Mandarin Companion’s graded readers, which make it possible to read Mandarin from an elementary l...
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