Chris Foley’s Mandarin Speaking Journey: Mission Accomplished!
One year ago, Chris Foley set himself a challenge to transform his Mandarin and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cer...
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Mandarin Speaking
Posts on getting Mandarin out of your mouth more naturally: tones, pronunciation, conversation practice, tutor work, sentence mining, and the confidence to use what you know.
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01 How to Practice Speaking: Live Q&A with Will & Mischa (Podcast) So on today's podcast episode, I'm broadcasting a live Q&A session I recently hosted together with fluent Mandarin speaker and YouTuber, Will Hart. We... Read 02 There Isn’t a Shred of Evidence That Speaking Early is Harmful for Your Chinese “When should you start speaking Chinese?” This is the question at the centre of one of the longest standing debates in the language learning community... Read
Can a Busy Dad Learn Mandarin in Just One Year?
Over the last 12 months, busy Welsh accountant and father to a young daughter, Lewys Thomas, has been working to improve his Mandarin speaking skills...
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Chris’s Diary Month 8 & 9: Untangling the Tongue Twisters
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his tone pronunciation, and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cere...
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Chris's Diary Month 7: Dialing in the Tones and Preparing for New Challenges
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his pronunciation and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding ceremony....
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How to Make the Most of Mandarin Language Exchange
If you’re not in the server, click the 'Discord' tab at the top of this blog. I definitely recommend checking it out. It’s a community of nearly 400 M...
Read more Chris's Mandarin Diary Month 6: My First Chinese Interview (Video)
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his tone pronunciation and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cerem...
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Using AI to Nail Daily Interactions in Mandarin
Even with relatively fluent Mandarin, it can be easy to stumble in seemingly simple situations, buying train tickets, ordering coffee, or understandin...
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How to Generate Personalised Mandarin Tongue Twisters with AI
Continuing this theme in this week's episode, I outline a really simple method that you can use to use AI to generate your very own Mandarin tongue tw...
Read more Chris Foley’s Mandarin Speaking Journey: Months 4 & 5
Chris Foley has set himself a challenge to improve his tone pronunciation, and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cere...
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