My Full Asiaglot Speech: The Inconvenient Truth about Mandarin Learning (Podcast)
On today's episode, I'm going to play my speech, which I recently made at the Asiaglot conference in Taipei. The speech was called The Inconvenient Tr...
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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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Why Deepseek is the Biggest Mandarin Learning Game Changer of 2025
This week on the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast, I discuss how you can use Deepseek as a game changing tool to become fluent in Chinese. As we've previ...
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Lewys's 6-Month Transformation to Conversational Mandarin (Video)
Over the last six months, Welsh accountant and father Lewys Thomas has been working to improve his Mandarin speaking skills with I'm Learning Mandarin...
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Chris Foley's Mandarin Speaking Diary: My Immersive Trip to China (Month 3)
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 Foley's Mandarin Speaking Journey: Month 2
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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Former NASA Employee Applies Engineering Approach to Mandarin learning (Podcast)
Outlier specialise in facilitating the language learning process by breaking down the complexities of the language, including Chinese characters. And...
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Interview with Karen Cheuk from Happy Mandarin
Karen was born and raised in Hong Kong and went on to study at Cambridge University on a scholarship. After graduating and having a daughter, she was...
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Interview with Michael Campbell from Glossika (Podcast)
Michael has dedicated a significant portion of his life to understanding and mastering languages, having lived in Taiwan for most of his life and beco...
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Can I sharpen my tones and speak in a standard Mandarin accent in time for my wedding?
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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