Here you will find easy to understand tutorials designed to benefit the Mandarin learner.
Chances are you feel like me when you are browsing Netflix. Although they boast 1000s of titles, I am presented with the same 100 or so shows in every last row of the home page. Their new “play something” feature isn’t any better. It has yet to pick something I actually want to watch. When you …
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For the past year, I have spent more time building MandarinMania.com than I have in actual Chinese learning. At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is crack a book. I prefer to stretch out, and binge watch Netflix. You probably know that Instagram is an excellent source of bite-sized …
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It can be very time consuming to create cards within Anki. My new 4-part video series will have you creating cards at warp speed. The secret is uploading a CSV file containing your card information directly into Anki. CSV is a file format used by spreadsheet programs, such as Excel, Libre Office, etc. If you …
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 …
Working on my Mandarin pronunciation is very important to me right now; as is keeping my study sessions interesting by incorporating a variety of learning methods into my routine. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, tone pairs practice is one way to get a real hold on proper pronunciation. Since I began …
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For years, I have been frustrated by the seeming lack of the charter 女 (nǚ / woman) on my iPhone’s pinyin (QWERTY) keyboard. But, it was my knowledge that was lacking. In my defense, check out the screenshot below taken directly from my iPhone. After typing “nu,” you will see that the character choices do …
How to Type the Chinese Character for Female: 女 (nǚ) Read More »
When I was a newbie “content creator” my confidence in speaking Chinese was at DEFCON 1. Contrary to popular belief, DEFCON 1, and not 5, is the most severe alert state. Yes, an all-out nuclear war is still at times imminent, albeit only in my head. Like many YouTube neophytes, I used the preinstalled voice …
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