Can You Speak A Foreign Language With 400 Words?
Two years ago I had an experience which completely altered my perspective on language learning. I travelled to Taiwan for a three-week trip and quickl...
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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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Immersion Vs Structured Learning (Podcast)
Anyone who studies a language has to combine a mixture of approaches that broadly fall into two categories: naturalistic and structured. Naturalistic...
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Four Language Gurus Whose Advice is Golden
Below is a video of me being interviewed in Mandarin on YouTuber Will Hart’s channel. When I first started learning Mandarin I quickly found myself dr...
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Has Lockdown Helped or Hindered my Chinese Learning?
Below is a video of me being interviewed in Mandarin on YouTuber Will Hart’s channel. The pandemic has had a profound impact on the way we all live an...
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Leaving the Classroom: Self Studying my Way to Chinese Fluency
Below is a video of me being interviewed in Mandarin on YouTuber Will Hart's channel. A little over two years ago I wrote a blog documenting my experi...
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