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Mandarin From the Ground Up

by Isaac Myers
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  • S3 ~ 08 ~ The front desk is responsible 櫃台負責配合客人！

    June 24, 2024 · 26 min

    Show notes: Here is a link to my conversation with Mischa Wilmers on his I'm Learning Mandarin podcast. Taipei Shorts, an annual theater event that showcases multilingual theater written, directed, and performed by local artists in…

  • S3 ~ 07 ~ Handsome brother goes to work 帥哥上班

    October 31, 2023 · 27 min

    Lesson Outline: [00:21] Review of tone pairs from lessons one through six. [02:30] Magic Phrase: 帥哥上班，外公退休[08:20] Dialogue[11:40] Translation[23:07] Dialogue, one more time at normal speedMagic Phrase (4-1)This phrase is composed entirely…

  • S3 ~ 06 ~ The subway is leaking! 地鐵漏水！

    September 12, 2023 · 30 min

    The long-awaited episode 06 is finally here! This lesson's dialogue is longer than usual, so let's get right to it.  Lesson Outline: [00:21] Introduction[04:21] Magic Phrase: 下午下雨，地鐵漏水！[07:22] Dialogue[11:00] Translation[25:09] Dialogue…

  • S3 ~ 05 ~ Forget the past 忘記過去

    July 4, 2023 · 25 min

    We can't understand a language outside the context of the people who live it and speak it. A human language cannot be contained in an artifact like a dictionary or even a database, because it is a living thing, which exists through the…

  • Daily Practice (Normal Speed) - S3 - Lesson 04

    June 17, 2023 · 5 min

    After listening to Season 3, Lesson 04, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitating the material. Repetition makes progress. Magic Phrase (1-2)This phrase is composed entirely of…

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  • S3 ~ 04 ~ The park is extremely safe 公園非常安全

    June 16, 2023 · 23 min

    Be mindful of how you're feeling when you practice these lessons. Are you feeling excited and energized? Tired and doubtful? Distracted? Focused? Without passing any judgment on how you feel, observing your feelings or state of mind can…

  • Daily Practice Session - S3 - Lesson 03

    May 25, 2023 · 4 min

    After listening to Season 3, Lesson 03, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitating the material. Repetition makes progress. Magic Phrase (2-3)This phrase is composed entirely of…

  • S3 ~ 03 ~ Dangerous horse riding 拿起啤酒騎馬危險！

    May 24, 2023 · 17 min

    Today's tone pair, 2-3, is easily confused with the one we learned in episode one, 3-2. Today we'll spend some time practicing differentiating between them. Then we'll hear another fun (slightly absurd) dialogue to practice our listening…

  • Daily Practice Session - S3 - Lesson 02

    May 11, 2023 · 5 min

    After listening to Season 3, Lesson 02, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitating the material. Repetition makes progress. Magic Phrase (1-4)This phrase is composed entirely of…

  • S3 ~ 02 ~ Supermarkets need music 超市需要音樂！

    May 10, 2023 · 15 min

    Let's learn another tone pair! Can you hear which one it is? Learning the pronunciation of a foreign language can sometimes feel strange, even scary. Pronunciation is such a personal thing -- it's part of who we are, and how we express…

  • Daily Practice Session - S3 - Lesson 01

    May 2, 2023 · 5 min

    After listening to Season 3, Lesson 01, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitating the material. Repetition makes it stick. Part 1: Magic Phrase (3-2)This phrase is composed…

  • S3 ~ 01 ~ American strawberries on sale 美國草莓打折！

    May 1, 2023 · 21 min

    Welcome back for Season 3! In this series, we are going to do a deep dive on the tones in Mandarin. We covered tones briefly in Season 1, Episode 07, but there is still a lot more to talk about. Tones are one of those subjects that some…

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Learn to speak Mandarin the same way you learned your native language: by imitating what you hear. No memorizing, no tedious grammar lessons, no superhuman willpower, just the sounds of Chinese, your ears, and you. Let's start speaking Chinese for real this time. Subscribe to start building your Mandarin from the ground up! Logo artwork by Alex Wang • 老汪