I’m Learning Mandarin are helping organise immersive language retreats to give learners in the UK the chance to spend entire weekends away speaking on...
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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 Chines...
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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 P...
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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 th...
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On today’s episode, I talk to April Zhang, an inspirational Mandarin teacher and founder of the Chinese teaching website MSL Master. April is also the...
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Illustrations by Esther Birts Many Mandarin learners are obsessed with building a large vocabulary. Often this can seem like a competition where stude...
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Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. On today’s podcast, I chat with a very distinguished guest. Someone who has des...
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(Illustrations by Esther Birts) A large part of my motivation for writing this blog is to discuss mistakes I've made in my approaches to learning Chin...
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Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. On today’s episode, we delve into one of the most remarkable language-learning...
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This week I had the pleasure of interviewing two fascinating guests on my podcast, both of whom have achieved unusually high levels of spoken Mandarin...
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Many listeners of this podcast are people who, like me, get immense joy and gratification from the language-learning process. However, it’s also worth...
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Many Chinese learners feel embarrassed when speaking the language in front of others and are afraid of being judged negatively for making mistakes. In...
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On today’s podcast, we discuss the world’s most popular language app, Duolingo. I’ve long been a critic of Duolingo, having spent a ridiculous amount...
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On today’s podcast we have a very special guest, the YouTube superstar and fluent Japanese speaker Matt Vs Japan. Matt is a well known face in the lan...
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A few days ago I had the pleasure of interviewing the accomplished Japanese learner and YouTube star Matt Vs Japan for the I’m Learning Mandarin podca...
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On today's episode, I debate the concept of language talent with two guests. Yong Jun is a PHD student researching the philosophy of language. Katheri...
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Last week a friend in the UK who is at a higher elementary level of Mandarin was telling me about an experience he had while walking the dog in the pa...
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A few summers ago I became addicted to the language-learning app Duolingo. I was a complete beginner in Chinese having spent the previous year attendi...
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It’s often said that people shouldn’t compare different languages with each other or say that some languages are harder than others to study. I unders...
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One of the most frequently asked questions from new Chinese learners is: "how many words will I need to learn before I'm fluent?" In this guest post c...
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My guest on this episode is Lei Lei, a blogger and Mandarin Chinese learner who writes about the process of learning Chinese to a high level. After st...
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I recently launched a Facebook group for Mandarin learners to connect with native speakers, share Mandarin learning resources and access our weekly la...
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In a previous post, I wrote about my ‘traffic light system’ for improving spoken Chinese. This involves categorising my Chinese tutor and friends into...
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It's easy to forget that ten years ago I - and many people around me - didn’t own a smartphone. At that time the most impressive thing I could do on m...
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