Mandarin Monkey Podcast

We speak with multilingual Doctor, long time friend, supporter and student of Mandarin Monkey Margret Chang. We discuss her being taught Mandarin in Taiwanese and learning several other languages. We ...

11 Des 20201h 13min

We say some big Thanks yous. Our daughter said F*&k and we talk about making mistakes. Today we are Maipian and dongli. Also Happy BIRTHDAY TO DARIAN! If you enjoy what we do, we have been helpful or ...

9 Des 202055min

We speak with famed author, illustrator, comic book creator, linguist, instructional YouTuber and all round nice guy Mark Crilley about his time spent in Taiwan 26 years ago. How he learned Chinese an...

5 Des 20201h 35min

Is it ok to just do ok? Fascinating child like learning of multiple languages simultaneously. How would intense, painful Chinese conversation help me learn? We discuss all these things in this episode...

30 Nov 20201h 13min

50 things we are grateful for! Today is Thanksgiving for our American friends. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We love the idea of being grateful for what we have so we pull up some ideas and have a ch...

27 Nov 20201h 26min

Education, language acquisition, motivations, life goals, Taiwanese tests, scars, kids and a school that teaches you lots about nature and not so much about math. interesting. all in Chinglish. If you...

23 Nov 20201h 1min

We have a good chit-chat in this one. Ula woke up an hour before and was full of energy. Also a daily routine video we just released. My audio adverts at the front end of each episode now, meditation,...

20 Nov 20201h 8min

So, we went right ahead and had another baby. Added number three to the gang. This was our experience. As usual, Ula speaks 95% Chinese in this episode, and Tom uses 80% English. Chinglish is used thr...

16 Nov 20201h 14min