Geo Neo 梁根榮, a native of Singapore, started his career as a composer and producer in South Korea. In late 2016, he decided to enter the MandoPop arena. Although he is based in Seoul and speaks three languages, he plans to focus his singing on Mandarin. I am glad he made that choice as his voice …
The final installment of our Tone Pair’s Practice series has arrived. As I have said time and again, mastering tone pairs is the key to speaking properly in full sentences. If you haven’t started practicing tone pairs yet, what are you waiting for? Not familiar with the series? Each video contains 50 words taken …
To a language learner, Anki is worth its weight in gold. If you try to create a flashcard deck from scratch, however, you will quickly learn to dread the task. Enter my new video series designed to tame the Anki deck creation beast. Each video will explain a method I have discovered to simplify the …
Lately, I have been loudly singing the praises of mastering tone pairs to perfect your Chinese pronunciation. While that is essential, you cannot master Mandarin if you do not first know how to pronounce pinyin correctly. Enter my brand new Instagram series: “Let’s Learn Pinyin Sounds.” You can view the first installment below this blog post. …
My vision for MandarinMania.com is to gradually become an indispensable instrument designed to assist you with learning the Mandarin language for FREE. Why gradually you ask? I am a “one person team.” Designing MandarinMania.com and its content alone means that there is no one to brainstorm with, or is there? When people come together, what can be built becomes …
Mastering tone pairs are the key to speaking properly in full sentences. If you aren’t using Tone Pairs Practice to improve your Chinese pronunciation, do yourself a favor and start now. Practicing Chinese using single-syllable words just doesn’t cut it. Why? People speak in sentences. When you add tones to the mix, single-syllable words do …
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Apple Music, it’s the next best thing when you don’t have access to “over the air” Chinese radio like me. After spending some quality time together, I must say Apple Music’s algorithm is becoming my new best friend. Recently, “she” suggested that I would enjoy 變成一隻魚 Become a Fish by 胡鬧一番 Who Knows. It’s the …
I am on Cloud 9 listening to Han Hong 韓紅 and JJ Lin’s 林俊傑 first collaboration… “Under the Cloud 飛雲之下.” The song speaks to those who have left their homeland. Check out the video below, and sing along with me using the Chinese, Pinyin or English translation of the lyrics to this mega-hit! Enjoy learning Mandarin …
We are excited to announce that HSK 2 Vocabulary Character Writing Practice Sheets are now available. Perfect your Chinese writing skills as you fill the pages. Practice sheets are available for every HSK 2 vocabulary word or choose a blank sheet. Still working on HSK 1 Vocabulary? We have writing practice sheets for that too. …
The Office of Chinese Language Council International 国家汉语国际推广领导小组办公室 or more simply called: Hanban 汉办, provides teaching resources for those interested in learning Mandarin. MandarinMania is pleased to announce that we now have HSK sample testing materials available on our site that were created by Hanban. Just click on the “HSK Sample Test” link in the main …
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