Reflecting on Five Days of Pure Mandarin Immersion with Will Hart (Podcast)
A group of 14 of us, including learners, organisers volunteers, and native tutors got together in Cheddar, in the south-west of England, and spoke not...
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5 Things I Learned From 5 Days of Total Mandarin Immersion
I've just returned from five glorious summer days in Cheddar, UK, where I was leading our annual Mandarin Retreat Summer Camp. I began organising Mand...
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Mandarin Learner Completes Extreme One Month Anki Challenge (Podcast)
Anki is a Spaced Repetition flashcards program that enables you to drill and create flashcards to aid your memory's retention of new information. And...
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Fluent Mandarin Star Uses Sentence Mining to Learn Spanish (Podcast)
Will Hart, created waves in the Mandarin learning community when he reached an incredible level of fluency in just 1.5 years while living in the UK du...
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How to Build Your Perfect Step-By-Step Mandarin Learning Plan
Will Hart is an Educator, fluent Chinese speaker. In this blog post, he lays out the building blocks all learners can use to create an effective Manda...
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From Mandarin Learner to Teacher & Instagram Star (Podcast)
Kristen has been learning Chinese since 2013. Like me, she initially began learning outside China, and is full of insights based on her experience of...
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My Top Five Podcasts For Learning Mandarin at an Intermediate to Advanced Level
In previous posts, I’ve discussed how listening to podcasts has played a crucial role in my Mandarin learning. There are two reasons why I value podca...
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Insights from a Lifelong Mandarin Learner (Podcast)
Stacy Bridges, from the US, began learning Mandarin at school and has continued studying the language on and off ever since. He recently attended one...
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Learning to Listen: The Neuroscience of Language Learning
Duncan Parrish is an I’m Learning Mandarin contributor and coordinator of Arti Languages, a project using mobile games and cognitive science to enhanc...
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How to Get Hooked on Mandarin Learning (Podcast)
One of the most rewarding parts of running this podcast and creating Mandarin-learning content is receiving messages from learners whose lives have be...
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Channeling Jealousy into Curiosity is the Key to Mandarin Progress (Podcast)
Lewys has been learning Chinese for a few years but recently realised that, despite getting a tonne of input, his speaking skills weren't improving. A...
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Is Anki The Best App for Learning Mandarin?
Karl Baker is a Mandarin learner, app developer, and regular contributor to I’m Learning Mandarin. In this post, he delves into the Spaced Repetition...
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App Developer Reveals 5 Tips for Chinese Sentence Mining (Podcast)
Karl began learning Mandarin several years ago as a way of communicating with his Chinese wife's family and he's previously written for the I'm Learni...
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5 Things I Learned as a Keynote Speaker at the Swire Chinese Conference 2024
Last week I attended the annual Swire Chinese Language Conference in Birmingham as a keynote speaker. Organised by the Swire Chinese Language Foundati...
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Language exchange app leads composer to Chinese speaking breakthrough (Podcast)
And today’s guest is a perfect example of this. Daniel Leo Simpson is a composer from the US whose music has been played by orchestras around the worl...
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Five Ways I Maintain my Mandarin Speaking Skills While Living in UK
In 2023 I spent the year living, studying, and working in Taipei. I had the chance to take an advanced Mandarin course for a semester at NTU where I w...
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Practicing Output is Every Bit as Important as Comprehensible Input (Podcast)
Jered was responding to my callout inviting listeners to produce their own short podcast episodes in Chinese, with my support. Jered is an accomplishe...
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These Five Tech Breakthroughs Will Soon Make Mandarin Infinitely Easier To Learn
In a previous blog post, I discussed the major changes in technology which have revolutionised the way we learn Chinese over the past decade. From sma...
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How to Practice Speaking: Live Q&A with Will & Mischa (Podcast)
So on today's podcast episode, I'm broadcasting a live Q&A session I recently hosted together with fluent Mandarin speaker and YouTuber, Will Hart. We...
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Sorry but Nobody Ever Learned Chinese By Making Mistakes
One of the most fashionable ideas in language learning is that we learn by making mistakes. This idea is appealing for obvious reasons. Beginner and i...
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From Zero to Fluent in Two Years. I'm Learning Mandarin Listener Nails Spoken Mandarin (Podcast)
On today’s podcast, I broadcast the first of what I hope will be many Chinese monologues submitted by listeners to this podcast. Today’s recording is...
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Does ChatGPT Speak Authentic Chinese? The Results of My Study May Surprise You...
Karl Baker is a Mandarin learner, app developer, and regular contributor to I'm Learning Mandarin. He is working on developing the Chinese sentence-mi...
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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...
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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...
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