Your Ultimate Guide to Chinese Sentence Mining in 5 Basic Steps
Illustrations by Esther Birts Many Mandarin learners are obsessed with building a large vocabulary. Often this can seem like a competition where stude...
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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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How to Achieve a Near Native Chinese Accent with Professor Karen Chung (Podcast)
Please subscribe on your favoured podcast provider and leave a review. On today’s podcast, I chat with a very distinguished guest. Someone who has des...
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The 5 Most Common Chinese Learning Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them
(Illustrations by Esther Birts) A large part of my motivation for writing this blog is to discuss mistakes I've made in my approaches to learning Chin...
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Interviewing This Master of Oral Chinese Made Me Rethink Everything I Believed About Language Learning
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing two fascinating guests on my podcast, both of whom have achieved unusually high levels of spoken Mandarin...
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Guest Post: Learning Chinese Taught Me To Be Comfortable Making A Fool Of Myself
Many Chinese learners feel embarrassed when speaking the language in front of others and are afraid of being judged negatively for making mistakes. In...
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Matt Vs Japan on Input, Stephen Krashen, Why Accents Matter & Much More (Podcast)
On today’s podcast we have a very special guest, the YouTube superstar and fluent Japanese speaker Matt Vs Japan. Matt is a well known face in the lan...
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Is Matt Vs Japan Right That Your Accent Really Matters?
A few days ago I had the pleasure of interviewing the accomplished Japanese learner and YouTube star Matt Vs Japan for the I’m Learning Mandarin podca...
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How Many Words do you Really Need to Speak Fluent Chinese?
One of the most frequently asked questions from new Chinese learners is: "how many words will I need to learn before I'm fluent?" In this guest post c...
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Join the I'm Learning Mandarin Facebook Community
I recently launched a Facebook group for Mandarin learners to connect with native speakers, share Mandarin learning resources and access our weekly la...
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