Listener Mailbag: Soft Mandarin Broke My Brain
Friday mailbag time. Chinese and English together, as always.Today you get listener stories about:• Stress gestures that looked like a love confession • Soft Mandarin that sounded like poetry underwat...
5 Dec 202551min
UK Food Labels, Taiwan Life, And Christmas Nonsense Bilingual Chat
A bilingual Mandarin and English episode filled with Christmas nonsense, food talk, and some heavier life planning.We talk about UK food labels, sugar overload, and why buying cheese feels like a heal...
3 Dec 202537min
Mailbag 434: Real Mandarin Problems, Real Fixes
Friday mailbag. Mandarin and English. Real listener questions.We start with a chat about long-term goals. Safety, peace, fun, love and connection. Where we want the kids to be in ten years. Where we w...
28 Nov 202549min
Our Most Random Podcast Start Ever | Bilingual | Chinese and English
This episode starts in the strangest way possible, then turns into a full life update. We talk about Kairi wanting to learn Chinese, Dragon Ball socks, why none of us sleep, work changes, and the chao...
26 Nov 20251h 12min
The Mandarin Lip Reading Game Goes Wrong
We skip the small talk and jump straight into chaos. One of us wears noise-cancelling headphones with brown noise blasting. The other says sentences in Mandarin and English. The goal is simple. Lip re...
19 Nov 202533min
Immersion Is Not Enough: Real Chinese Learner Problems
Wrong day, wrong week, right podcast. Today’s mailbag episode starts with that weird moment when your brain swears Friday arrived, but the calendar says otherwise, then drifts into lottery fantasies, ...
14 Nov 202551min
Can You Read Lips in Chinese? We Tried.
We put on noise-canceling headphones, blasted brown noise, and tried to read each other’s lips in Chinese.Spoiler: “Are you the king of Mandarin Monkey?” turned into “Are you licking a mandarin monkey...
12 Nov 202534min
Simplified vs Traditional, Sleep, and Starting Over in China | Mailbag #429
Mailbag time. Phoebe’s moving to China in a week, Jasmine’s torn between Simplified and Traditional, Mark nails his first all-Mandarin order, Anna shares tonal research, and Katie reminds us to slow d...
7 Nov 20251h 1min
