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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Mandarin Listening
Posts on training your ear for real Mandarin: active listening, ambiguity tolerance, native-speed audio, podcasts, immersion, and choosing input you can actually stick with.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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