Get the full eBook for free here: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook -- One of the questions I've always been fascinated by and covered extensively on my podcast is: what do the most successful Chinese learners do differently from everyone else? Is their success purely down to talent or is there method behind the genius? My new eBook, Lessons from a Chinese Learning Phenomenon looks at this question through the case of Will Hart, a young British medical student who achieved what many lingui...
Mar 27, 2024•9 min
Links: Peak Mandarin Masterclasses: https://www.peakmandarin.com/masterclass Tones Masterclass: https://www.peakmandarin.com/challenge-page/tones On today’s episode, I interview a friend of the podcast, Ryan, and announce the launch of my new Mandarin learning platform, Peak Mandarin. Over the past year, I’ve been working with YouTuber Will Hart, to run a series of live Mandarin Masterclasses teaching you how to overcome specific challenges on your journey to Mandarin fluency. These live session...
Mar 19, 2024•23 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: My blog: https://imlearningmandarin.com/ Sara's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sarajaaksola On today’s episode, I speak to Sara Jaaksola, A Ph.D. researcher and Chinese teacher originally from Finland Sara first moved to China in 2010 to study Mandarin, before deciding to settle there long-term. After working as a Chinese teacher for several years, she recently embarked on A Ph.D. program, researching Mandarin learners’ motivations for ...
Mar 06, 2024•23 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Link: Duncan's app: https://www.artilanguages.com/ My blog: imlearningmandarin.com -- If you google “what’s the best way to learn a language”, you’ll be bombarded with hundreds of different methods, each claiming to be completely original and groundbreaking. But if we study history, we’ll discover many of these modern approaches are actually very similar to the ways our ancestors learned foreign languages, hundreds or even thousands of years ago....
Feb 21, 2024•27 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: My blog: imlearningmandarin.com My Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imlearningmandarin -- Most of my guests on this podcast have had experience and success in either learning Chinese, teaching Chinese or researching Chinese. Occasionally, I have the pleasure of interviewing people with experience of all three, my recent episode with Olle Linge being a perfect example. And today I have the pleasure of interviewing another...
Feb 09, 2024•41 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Mandarin Retreat: https://www.mandarinretreat.com/ Carolina's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolina-navarro-plata/?locale=es_ES Our Facebook community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imlearningmandarin I'm Learning Mandarin blog: imlearningmandarin.com/ -- Today’s podcast episode is all about Carolina Navarro, a language educator from Spain whose Chinese learning adventures saw her overcome numerous cultural obstacles on the way ...
Jan 17, 2024•22 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Olle's blog: https://www.hackingchinese.com/ My blog: imlearningmandarin.com Chinese Masterclasses: https://www.mandarinretreat.com/store/p/masterclasses In today’s episode I interview one of my most hotly anticipated guests, the Mandarin educator, blogger and teacher, Olle Linge. Olle is well known for being the founder of the blog Hacking Chinese. For over a decade, Olle has been drawing on his extensive experience of learning and teachi...
Jan 04, 2024•48 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Our Masterclasses on Sentence Mining & Tones Upcoming Mandarin Retreats Will's Youtube Channel -- One year ago I interviewed someone who totally transformed my perspective on learning Chinese and particularly reaching high levels in the spoken language. By now, listeners will be familiar with Will Hart, the Mandarin learning phenomenon who became incredibly fluent in Chinese within the space of just a year and a half. Since I last inte...
Sep 07, 2023•25 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Our blog: Imlearningmandarin.com Our immersive Mandarin learning retreats and masterclasses: mandarinretreat.com Jiaqi Laoshi's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themandarinstorm/ Jiaqi Laoshi's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@speakyourchinese The Mandarin Storm: https://beacons.ai/themandarinstorm -- When I think back to all the Chinese tutors I’ve had in the past, the best have without fail been people who have a passion for learnin...
Aug 06, 2023•26 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Mandarin Retreat: https://mandarinretreat.com/ Will's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@will3267 I'm Learning Mandarin Blog: imlearningmandarin.com/ Our Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imlearningmandarin -- This episode is a little bit different than usual. Instead of assuming my normal role of interviewer, on today’s show I’m taking the guest seat. So I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed in Chinese ...
Jul 19, 2023•41 min
The I’m learning mandarin podcast, features stories, hot takes and considered opinions from the world’s leading linguists and successful mandarin learners. Each episode, we explore the most effective methods for studying mandarin and interview distinguished guests about their learning journey. Whether it’s tones, characters or listening comprehension or anything else you may be struggling with, the ultimate goal to help you learn how to learn Chinese. The I’m learning mandarin podcast is produce...
Jul 07, 2023•1 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links Mandarin Retreats: https://mandarinretreat.com/ I'm Learning Mandarin Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imlearningmandarin My Roadmap to Mastering Chinese Tones: https://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/12/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ -- Hello and welcome to the I’m Learning Mandarin podcast. On today’s podcast we speak to a guest whose interest in Buddhism led him to begin self studying Chinese two y...
Jul 03, 2023•50 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: mandarinretreat.com/ - For more information on immersive Chinese learning trips and summer camps for learners based in Europe. imlearningmandarin.com - for more blogs and podcasts on learning Chinese https://www.amazon.com/TPRS-Chinese-Characteristics-Terry-Waltz/dp/0692442901 - TPRS with Chinese Characteristics. -- Hello and welcome back to the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast! We're finally back after a several month hiatus. On today’s epis...
Jun 20, 2023•42 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Mandarin Retreat Raffle: https://mandarinretreat.com/hc-raffle/ Refold Discord: https://community.refold.la/about-us/ Refold Website: https://refold.la/join/ On today’s podcast I speak to Ethan, the CEO of Refold, an immersion based language learning system that offers a guide and a community for learners who want to achieve language fluency. Refold was initially set up by Ethan together with Matt Vs Japan, who has appeared on this podcast...
Dec 17, 2022•43 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Today’s episode is a very special edition in which, for the first time ever, the discussion is recorded entirely in Mandarin Chinese. For some background: Last Christmas I wrote a blog in which I set my new years’ resolution. And the goal for 2022 was to work hard on my speaking skills and get to a level within one year where I’d feel comfortable recording podcast discussions in fluent Mandarin. So after several months of hard work, I’m finally r...
Oct 29, 2022•12 min
Links: Join the raffle here: https://mandarinretreat.com/hc-raffle/ Hack Chinese: https://www.hackchinese.com/ My blog documenting my experience of joining a Mandarin Retreat: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/08/14/i-tasted-full-immersion-for-the-first-time-on-a-weekend-mandarin-retreat-and-you-can-too/ -- Regular listeners to this podcast will be aware that a common thread running through many of the topics we discuss here is how to create an optimal language learning environment while studyi...
Oct 02, 2022•23 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Blog discussing the study Karl mentions demonstrating tolerance of ambiguity plays a decisive role in language learning success: https://sla-materials.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-tolerance-of-ambiguity.html My podcast discussing the Input Hypothesis and Comprehensible Input with linguist Professor Karen Chung and founder of Hack Chinese Daniel Nalesnik: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/08/22/does-stephen-krashens-input-hypothesis-comphrensi...
Sep 20, 2022•29 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: For more information on the UK Mandarin immersion weekends visit: https://mandarinretreat.com/ Check out my in-depth guide to tones here: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/12/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ -- If you ask any Mandarin learner which aspect of the language they find most challenging, it’s highly likely they’ll give a one word answer: tones. For years I would have said the same. Tones did not come easi...
Sep 05, 2022•36 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: To learn more about the UK Mandarin immersion retreats visit: https://mandarinretreat.com/ Blog with information about the immersion retreats: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/08/14/i-tasted-full-immersion-for-the-first-time-on-a-weekend-mandarin-retreat-and-you-can-too/ Essie Birt's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Essie_M_B -- Professor Stephen Krashen has arguably had more of an impact in the field of modern language education than any ot...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 3 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook *To contact Karl about his sentence mining app email ActiveLearningApps@gmail.com * For a full guide on sentence mining visit: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/07/03/your-ultimate-guide-to-chinese-sentence-mining-in-5-basic-steps/ * Join the I’m Learning Mandarin Facebook Community on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imlearningmandarin/ Last Christmas I set myself a new years resolution to improve my spoken Chinese to the point where I’d feel c...
Aug 07, 2022•43 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Benny's Blog: https://www.fluentin3months.com/ Benny's Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x2_kWRB8-A Benny's Book on Learning Mandarin: https://www.amazon.co.uk/LANGUAGE-HACKING-MANDARIN-Learn-Mandarin/dp/1473674271 My Blog on Learning Tones: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/12/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ On today’s episode I interview arguably the world’s most popular language learner, the one and onl...
Jul 24, 2022•47 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Karen's Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQEWEPIHLzQ My Roadmap to Learning Mandarin Tones: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/12/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ On today’s podcast, I chat with a very distinguished guest. Someone who has designed a technique she believes can help learners of any language achieve near native accents. Karen Chung from the USA has lived in Taiwan for more than 30 years and for...
Jun 26, 2022•42 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: I'm Learning Mandarin Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imlearningmandarin/ Will's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7LmgMa8XhIusF7RI7YI_KQ/featured Will's interview in chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CggHugyhyJU My Blog on Interviewing Will: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/06/04/interviewing-this-master-of-oral-chinese-made-me-rethink-everything-i-believed-about-language-learning/ My Blog on lear...
Jun 12, 2022•40 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: I'm Learning Mandarin Language Exchange Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/imlearningmandarin My blog on learning Mandarin tones: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/12/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ Karl's blog on using flashcards to learn Chinese: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2021/03/10/how-useful-are-flashcards-for-learning-mandarin-vocab/ Many listeners of this podcast are people who, like me, get i...
May 31, 2022•42 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: My blog on DuoLingo Chinese: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/04/07/i-completed-duolingo-chinese-heres-why-you-shouldnt/ My blog on the best apps for learning Chinese: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/20/thanks-to-these-apps-self-studying-chinese-is-much-easier-than-ten-years-ago/ Karl's flashcard app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=spaced.repetition.mandarin.chinese.learning.vocabulary.builder&hl=en_GB&gl=US ...
May 15, 2022•33 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Matt’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MATTvsJapan Matt’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattvsjapan My blog on how to acquire Chinese tones: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/12/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ My blog on the importance of accent: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/04/24/is-matt-vs-japan-right-that-your-accent-really-matters/ On today’s podcast we have a very special guest, the YouTube superstar a...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: My blog on Language Talent: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2021/09/03/why-i-dont-believe-in-language-talent/ My roadmap for learning Chinese tones: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/12/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ On today's episode I debate the concept of language talent with two guests. Yong Jun is a PHD student researching the philosophy of language. Katherine, who has appeared on the podcast before, is a Mast...
Apr 17, 2022•19 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: My best app recommendations for learning Chinese: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/20/thanks-to-these-apps-self-studying-chinese-is-much-easier-than-ten-years-ago/ Alej's Langaholic YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3WIz-1ezXsIsGQqWBlwEA Alej's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Langaholic My Twitter: https://twitter.com/MischaWilmers It’s often said that different languages shouldn't be compared with each other in terms o...
Apr 04, 2022•34 min
My eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook Links: Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imlearningmandarin Lei Lei's Blog: https://mixitwithmandarin.wordpress.com/ Blog on mastering tones: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/12/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ Blog on Netflix Chinese: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/03/04/how-to-learn-mandarin-with-chinese-netflix-shows/ Blog on best Chinese learning apps: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2022/02/20/thanks-...
Mar 20, 2022•43 min
#10 Sign up to the Tones Mechanic newsletter on imlearningmandarin.com -- Links: Details of the Chinese Writing Contest: https://www.mslmaster.com/index.php/8-contest/196-chinese-writing-contest Link to last years contest book: https://mslmaster.com/index.php/9-books/222-easy-to-read-chinese-short-stories-book-1 My blog on Chinese literacy: http://imlearningmandarin.com/2021/11/07/can-you-be-literate-without-writing-chinese-characters-by-hand/ On today’s episode I talk to inspirational Man...
Jan 10, 2022•25 min•Ep. 10
