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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Professor Stephen Krashen has arguably had more of an impact in the field of modern language education than any other academic linguist. His Input Hyp...
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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. On today’s podcast, I chat with a very distinguished guest. Someone who has des...
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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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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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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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On today's podcast, I discuss how expectations often differ from reality when learning Mandarin. My guest is YouTuber Luke Truman who has been documen...
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