Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Electrical problems stopped us recording the podcast but tomorrow we are on as the electrician promises us to have it done by then! Sorry for the irregular programming schedule this week. Www.Mandarin...

18 Kesä 20212min

We speak to our awesome intensive course testers in this episode to discuss their experience. We then fall into various holes including tattoos, Japan, food, dates, travel, Disney, accents and a whole...

13 Kesä 20211h 15min

This is the Intensive course story. We discuss, accents, hangouts, Universal Studios and living at Disney, quarantine, blue Mondays. Generally its a happy Monday feeling all round with the Mandarin Mo...

7 Kesä 20211h 5min

We talk about sarcasm in Mandarin Chinese (Eva) and about dirty language (Dan). We also discuss the class system in UK and in Taiwan and what it means to be from which if there are any. Ula tests Tom ...

4 Kesä 20211h 7min

Ours story today is about bad and good luck. We discuss the raising Covid cases, the rolling blackouts and the drought currently happening in Taiwan. The power outage blew the fuse box and broke a num...

31 Touko 20211h 5min

We introduce the three newest teachers and members of the Mandarin Monkey team in this episode. Please put your Mandarin hats on as this one is 90% Mandarin and at native speed. We discuss learning me...

28 Touko 20211h 17min

We read from the Mandarin Monkey's Chinglish stories, directly from our website today as we recant the tale of Tom (not our Tom) and his Deja Vu day. We substitute multiple sentences and use the vocab...

24 Touko 20211h 16min

It's death and taxes day. The only two things that we know are coming for us all. And they are up for discussion in today's Mandarin Monkey podcast. We cover a bunch of different topic including the c...

21 Touko 20211h 31min