Mandarin Monkey Podcast

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

We speak to Ryan Li, owner of several companies around the world and organiser of the Language Garden which we have spoken about several times on the podcast. We discuss how he acquires new languages ...

6 Nov 202056min

We discuss why children learn so quickly. What helps to help you remember Chinese words. Using context, visual and audio connections to bolster your language skills. Also becoming a king.If you enjoy ...

2 Nov 20201h 5min

We speak to Linda Yi, owner of Panda Cub Stories, an art & comic book creator who teaches Chinese in an interesting way.Linda's websitehttps://www.pandacubstories.com/Kickstarter information is on the...

30 Okt 20201h 6min

What mistakes do we make all the time? What do we do to correct it? What does it take to get it right? Who's shoes are they? What's the meaning of it all?If you enjoy what we do, we have been helpful ...

26 Okt 20201h