Mandarin Monkey Podcast

You will learn about learning words in this episode as the story centers around speaking skill, listening skill, tones, verbs, nouns, adjectives and sentence structure in Mandarin Chinese. We also dis...

12 Jul 202155min

Using the word 'rude' and 'bored' in the wrong way has interesting consequences and throws us down a strange conversation path. Football and relationships. Giving up. Making new friends in different c...

9 Jul 20211h 4min

We tell a survival story in this podcast. We will be talking about the use of water purifiers, grills and how to say 'build' something. We also we discuss how to use 'collect' in Chinese as well which...

5 Jul 20211h 5min

Capital gains tax? that makes for a riveting conversation! We also discuss surviving on a raft when a shark wants to eat you constantly. And lots of word in Mandarin for things you need to survive. Yo...

2 Jul 20211h 7min

Starting a new game is the topic for this weeks story. All those options you get in the game menu when you are playing a new game, we go through in detail during the Mandarin Chinese vocabulary sectio...

28 Jun 20211h 3min

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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 20211h 18min