Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Sometimes we listen to a podcast or show for company, sometimes just to have noise in the background when we are doing the laundry or having a bath. Sometimes we listen to a podcast because it's a fam...

14 Mar 20221h 3min

The Mandarin Monkey Podcast App is out and available now.The Mandarin Monkey Podcast app brings you all the Chinglish tears, joy, family, love and learning of the weekly podcast show but with some ama...

9 Mar 20226min

Ula finds a personality test based around peeled and unpelled oranges and tests Tom on it. We delve into activate and inactive brain types. Also about life priorities. As usual we dart around the plac...

7 Mar 20221h 5min

If you had the money would you get a full set of new teeth or laser surgery? Does having dexterity help you with your hands? What problems is Ula having with English right now? How do you help an Engl...

4 Mar 20221h 8min

Nancy Hsu is a climate change avocate, linguist (Mandarin & English), mother fo two AND dentist. Nancy comes and speak with us about climate change, the effects on the world and what we can do about i...

28 Feb 20221h 8min

If you are thinking about moving to Taiwan to live, study, work or for fun you may find this episode interesting. From about the half way point we give some advice on living in Taiwan. I think we cove...

24 Feb 20221h 6min

If you are learning how to speak Mandarin then you are going to need to try and use it to communicate with natives at some point. You will always feel like you aren't good enough yet, but you won't kn...

21 Feb 202257min

Would you rather have to read aloud every word you read or sing everything you say out loud? Would you rather have to fart loudly every time you have a serious conversation or have to burp after every...

17 Feb 20221h 6min