Mandarin Monkey Podcast

We decide to start gaming again. Also migrating from WhatsApp to Discord. This podcast gets derailed by two small people who want tog grab the microphone. We discuss games we are going to be live stre...

25 Kesä 202150min

Our story this week is not that of Shakespeare/Dickens, but that of Tomspeare. No where near as prose-esc though. It's a simple tale of two cities and the small differences between them. You will be l...

21 Kesä 20211h 7min

We are back to regular programming with episode 216 of the Mandarin Monkey podcast. The flaws of us all. Why do we call it the flaw of us all? We discuss learning Mandarin as usual, but the difficulti...

19 Kesä 20211h 18min

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