The Beginner's Guide To Surviving a Weekend of Total Chinese Immersion
Lingo Geek is a language blogger, teacher and volunteer at Mandarin Retreat, organising immersive weekend trips for Chinese learners in the UK. In thi...
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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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Opinion: No, Professor Krashen, the Perfect Accent Is NOT Already Within You
Just over a year ago, I attended an online networking conference for Mandarin enthusiasts. The event was run by the Confucius Institute and provided a...
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Four Myths About Learning Chinese Debunked
1. You Need to Go to China to Learn Chinese When I first started learning Chinese teachers and fellow learners often told me the only way I could poss...
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How To Make the Most of Your Language Exchange Partnerships
In this post blogger and teacher Lingo Geek draws on his personal experience to offer four tips for using language exchange apps and developing learni...
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How to Overcome the Problem of Chinese Tones (Podcast)
Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. If you ask any Mandarin learner which aspect of the language they find most cha...
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Four Things to Look For in a Good Chinese Tutor (and What to Avoid)
Searching for a Chinese tutor online can be a headache. Whilst there are plenty of online apps and websites pairing language learners with tutors it c...
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Does Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis & Comprehensible Input Work for Learning Mandarin Chinese?
Professor Stephen Krashen has arguably had more of an impact in the field of modern language education than any other academic linguist. His Input Hyp...
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I Tasted Full Immersion for the First Time on a Weekend Mandarin Retreat (And You Can Too)
I’m Learning Mandarin are helping organise immersive language retreats to give learners in the UK the chance to spend entire weekends away speaking on...
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What's the Big Deal About Sentence Mining? (Podcast)
Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. Last Christmas I set myself a New Year's resolution to improve my spoken Chines...
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