Chinese TV Shows to Learn Chinese - Netflix
There are literally dozens of Chinese TV shows to learn Chinese on Netflix. And making use of these has had a huge impact on my ability to go from int...
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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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75% of Learners Make these Chinese Tones Mistakes
I’ll walk you through four of the most commonly mispronounced tone combinations and explain how to get them right. Join us Live This Sunday This Sunda...
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Live Q&A: How to Fix your Chinese Tones (Podcast)
If you're looking to improve your tones but aren't sure how, this discussion is packed with insights from me, as well as server moderator, Jered. Tune...
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Do you Have to Memorise the Tones for All Your Chinese Vocab? (Podcast)
In this episode, I dive into one of the most common questions Mandarin learners face: Do you really need to memorise the tones for every new word you...
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Live Q&A: How To Practice Mandarin Speaking Early On (Podcast)
In just over a week we’ve seen the server grow into a thriving hub with nearly 200 learners supporting each other to ace their Mandarin-speaking goals...
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How to Say Hello in Chinese
In this guest post, Chinese learner Lewys Thomas takes some of the most common examples of textbook Mandarin phrases all learners get taught and offer...
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How I Accurately Mimic Full-Speed Mandarin In Four Simple Steps
The sentence was: 这么复杂的东西怎么学得会啊不可能的嘛对吧。Zhème fùzá de dōngxī zěnme xué de huì a bù kěnéng de ma duì ba. Something this complicated, how could I possibl...
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Your Ultimate Guide to Practicing the Tones of the Chinese Language
The tones of the Chinese language are often considered to be extremely difficult for non-native speakers to grasp. In this post I explain how I learne...
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Reflecting on Five Days of Pure Mandarin Immersion with Will Hart (Podcast)
A group of 14 of us, including learners, organisers volunteers, and native tutors got together in Cheddar, in the south-west of England, and spoke not...
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