Gamify your Chinese Learning with Ninchanese (Podcast)
I found Ninchanese particularly effective when transitioning between elementary and intermediate levels. The gamified elements, progressing through st...
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Learning Mandarin with Dong Chinese (Podcast)
Dong Chinese is an all-in-one Chinese learning app that enables learners to learn sentences in context using spaced repetition. In the episode, we dis...
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Chris Foley's Mandarin Speaking Journey: Month 2
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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Former NASA Employee Applies Engineering Approach to Mandarin learning (Podcast)
Outlier specialise in facilitating the language learning process by breaking down the complexities of the language, including Chinese characters. And...
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Interview with Karen Cheuk from Happy Mandarin
Karen was born and raised in Hong Kong and went on to study at Cambridge University on a scholarship. After graduating and having a daughter, she was...
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Interview with Michael Campbell from Glossika (Podcast)
Michael has dedicated a significant portion of his life to understanding and mastering languages, having lived in Taiwan for most of his life and beco...
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Can I sharpen my tones and speak in a standard Mandarin accent in time for my wedding?
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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Interview with Phil from Mandarin Blueprint (Podcast)
Phil is one of the two minds behind Mandarin Blueprint, a Mandarin learning course with over 4000 videos taking learners step-by-step all the way to M...
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Learning Chinese with Amanda Miss Panda (Podcast)
Amanda boasts over 30 years of experience teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) and Mandarin Chinese. She's also a published author, consultant,...
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Chinese TV Shows to Learn Chinese - Netflix
There are literally dozens of Chinese TV shows to learn Chinese on Netflix. And making use of these has had a huge impact on my ability to go from int...
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Maintaining your Mandarin Skills Outside China: Interview with Jorrit (Podcast)
Jorrit opens up about learning the language, living in China, and the challenges of maintaining his abilities after returning to a non-Chinese-speakin...
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Special Live Q&A: Ask Me Anything with Will Hart
Will should need no introduction to readers of this blog. Two years ago he burst on the Mandarin learning scene when videos of him speaking flawless C...
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75% of Learners Make these Chinese Tones Mistakes
I’ll walk you through four of the most commonly mispronounced tone combinations and explain how to get them right. Join us Live This Sunday This Sunda...
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Live Q&A: How to Fix your Chinese Tones (Podcast)
If you're looking to improve your tones but aren't sure how, this discussion is packed with insights from me, as well as server moderator, Jered. Tune...
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Do you Have to Memorise the Tones for All Your Chinese Vocab? (Podcast)
In this episode, I dive into one of the most common questions Mandarin learners face: Do you really need to memorise the tones for every new word you...
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Live Q&A: How To Practice Mandarin Speaking Early On (Podcast)
In just over a week we’ve seen the server grow into a thriving hub with nearly 200 learners supporting each other to ace their Mandarin-speaking goals...
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How to Say Hello in Chinese
In this guest post, Chinese learner Lewys Thomas takes some of the most common examples of textbook Mandarin phrases all learners get taught and offer...
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How I Accurately Mimic Full-Speed Mandarin In Four Simple Steps
The sentence was: 这么复杂的东西怎么学得会啊不可能的嘛对吧。Zhème fùzá de dōngxī zěnme xué de huì a bù kěnéng de ma duì ba. Something this complicated, how could I possibl...
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How Joshua Lykes is Learning Chinese Through AI (Podcast)
Joshua recently posted an hour-long video documenting in detail his first year of Mandarin learning. And one of the things that stood out to me about...
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Join Our New Discord Community For Mandarin Learners
Over the past few months, I’ve been coaching Chinese learners from around the world whose goal is to improve their conversational skills in the langua...
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Your Ultimate Guide to Practicing the Tones of the Chinese Language
The tones of the Chinese language are often considered to be extremely difficult for non-native speakers to grasp. In this post I explain how I learne...
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How long does it take to learn Mandarin Chinese in 2025
A number of influencers claim to have mastered Mandarin within just six months. But is this really possible? And just how long does it actually take t...
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Have You Had a Chinese Learning Wet Fish Moment?
This might take the form of a direct comment from a native speaker who is less polite than normal. Or it might be an embarrassing failed attempt to co...
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Launching New Sentence Mining App Mandarin Mosaic (Podcast)
Karl Baker, recently launched his new Mandarin learning app, Mandarin Mosaic. The App seeks to make sentence mining accessible. Like Anki, but easier...
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