5 Things I Learned From 5 Days of Total Mandarin Immersion
I've just returned from five glorious summer days in Cheddar, UK, where I was leading our annual Mandarin Retreat Summer Camp. I began organising Mand...
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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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Fluent Mandarin Star Uses Sentence Mining to Learn Spanish (Podcast)
Will Hart, created waves in the Mandarin learning community when he reached an incredible level of fluency in just 1.5 years while living in the UK du...
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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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Insights from a Lifelong Mandarin Learner (Podcast)
Stacy Bridges, from the US, began learning Mandarin at school and has continued studying the language on and off ever since. He recently attended one...
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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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App Developer Reveals 5 Tips for Chinese Sentence Mining (Podcast)
Karl began learning Mandarin several years ago as a way of communicating with his Chinese wife's family and he's previously written for the I'm Learni...
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Language exchange app leads composer to Chinese speaking breakthrough (Podcast)
And today’s guest is a perfect example of this. Daniel Leo Simpson is a composer from the US whose music has been played by orchestras around the worl...
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Five Ways I Maintain my Mandarin Speaking Skills While Living in UK
In 2023 I spent the year living, studying, and working in Taipei. I had the chance to take an advanced Mandarin course for a semester at NTU where I w...
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Practicing Output is Every Bit as Important as Comprehensible Input (Podcast)
Jered was responding to my callout inviting listeners to produce their own short podcast episodes in Chinese, with my support. Jered is an accomplishe...
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