Chris Foley’s Mandarin Speaking Journey: Mission Accomplished!
One year ago, Chris Foley set himself a challenge to transform his Mandarin and achieve a standard Mandarin accent in time for his Chinese wedding cer...
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Mandarin Writing
Posts on building expressive Mandarin: sentence patterns, grammar, handwriting, composition, and turning the language you collect into something you can use yourself.
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01 Do You REALLY Need to Learn to Write Chinese Characters? Learning to read and write Chinese characters is one of the most daunting challenges for Mandarin learners. But do you really need to learn to write C... Read 02 Enter This Chinese Writing Contest & Become a Published Mandarin Author (Podcast) On today’s episode, I talk to April Zhang, an inspirational Mandarin teacher and founder of the Chinese teaching website MSL Master. April is also the... Read 03 Struggling to Speak Authentic Chinese? This Method Will Help Master Mandarin Grammar In a previous post, I wrote about my ‘traffic light system’ for improving spoken Chinese. This involves categorising my Chinese tutor and friends into... Read
How Jake Gill from Skritter Learned Chinese
Skritter has been around for years, helping learners improve their handwriting and character recognition through a unique combination of spaced repeti...
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Learning Mandarin with Dong Chinese (Podcast)
Dong Chinese is an all-in-one Chinese learning app that enables learners to learn sentences in context using spaced repetition. In the episode, we dis...
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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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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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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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