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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Mandarin Reading
Posts on moving from textbook passages to real written Chinese: characters, graded readers, reading apps, novels, and strategies for surviving unknown words.
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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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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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Building an App to Achieve Native Chinese Reading Skills (Podcast)
Emmanuel has more than 35 years of experience learning Chinese. He began his Mandarin odyssey in the late 80s, studying the language at university. Ho...
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Three Things You Need To Know Before You Study Chinese in Taiwan (Podcast)
Recently I decided to commit to producing the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast once a week instead of fortnightly. The plan is to continue posting guest...
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Five Ways I’ve Changed My Mind About Learning Chinese
My approaches to studying Chinese have evolved quite a bit since I first started this blog two years ago. Broadly speaking my view on how we learn lan...
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Can You Learn Mandarin From Outside Chinese Speaking Countries? Yes, Here’s Why
Ask someone who has never learned a foreign language to fluency what they imagine the best way to do so might be and many will reply: “Go and live in...
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Four Ways ChatGPT Can Give Your Chinese a Huge Boost
Since ChatGPT became publicly available last November it has allegedly grown in popularity at a faster rate than any other online app or service in th...
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Does Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis & Comprehensible Input Work for Learning Mandarin Chinese?
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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