Mandarin Monkey Podcast

We battle through this one whilst being ill. Vocabulary surrounding that and the doctors. The story also tells of the love between a boy and his father. But please bare in mind, we both whilst recordi...

15 Jan 20211h 12min

We speak to Chris Lonsdale a New Zealand psychologist, linguist, educator and author about his methods for learning a language in six months. We discuss various different techniques for learning Manda...

11 Jan 20211h 41min

This strange story is about the Circus. We cover some mandarin vocabulary revolving around fear and we discuss whether or not you can separate the art from the artist. All in delightful Chinglish.If y...

8 Jan 20211h 4min

We have an intermediate Monster story for you in this one given and created by our very our Hangouteers over this weekends hangouts. The first XX minutes of Chinglish (Chinese and English) chat are fo...

4 Jan 202156min

This episode has an intermediate/upper intermediate money based story and vocabulary section. Also we interview Kairi. Mandarin Chinese and English are used throughout as usual.If you enjoy what we do...

1 Jan 20211h 15min

It's a new format for our podcast we are trying something new! 15 minute-ish of chat, Storytime, vocabulary breakdown and examples followed by more chat and sign off. Let's see how it goes. First one ...

28 Des 20201h 7min

We discuss euphemisms/雙關語/Shuāngguān yǔ in this one for probably longer than we should have. There are so many things that can mean genitals in English its a little upsetting really. We also discuss C...

21 Des 20201h 3min

This is it. 168! We did it! We talk about conflict and how to use it in Mandarin. Then Ula reads the book of Awesome and we discuss life's little wins to end the one weeks worth of podcasts milestone!...

17 Des 20201h 7min