Interview with Hacking Chinese Founder Olle Linge (Podcast)
Olle is well known for being the founder of the blog Hacking Chinese. For over a decade, he's been drawing on his extensive experience of learning and...
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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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Can You Really Be Understood If You Ignore Chinese Tones?
Recently I came across an interesting research paper investigating the popular claim that native speakers can still understand Mandarin learners who i...
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Chinese Grammar Isn't As Simple As You Think!
I’ve often heard learners and teachers alike say Mandarin grammar is ‘simple.’ Unlike European languages, they point out that there are no genders, ve...
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My Photo Diary from Five Days Speaking Only Chinese on Mandarin Retreat Summer Camp
In this guest post, blogger and Mandarin Retreat volunteer Lingo Geek publishes his photo diary from five days spent speaking only Chinese on a recent...
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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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I Conducted an Experiment to See if I Could Overcome Chinese Accent Fossilisation. Here are the Results
Over the past few years, I've been conducting an experiment on myself to see whether it's possible to undo deeply entrenched Chinese pronunciation mis...
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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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How Overcoming Chinese Speaking Fears Led to a Life Changing Experience (Podcast)
(This podcast is available on Spotify and Apple.) A few weeks ago a message appeared on the I’m Learning Mandarin Facebook group addressed to me from...
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The Valuable Lesson I Learned Buying Snacks at Taiwan's Night Markets
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been travelling around Taiwan, visiting various towns and cities in the south of the country. As I wrote previousl...
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