Daily Practice (Normal Speed) - S3 - Lesson 08
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 08, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking six minutes a day to practice listening and imitatin...
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20 of 78 episodesS3 ~ 08 ~ The front desk is responsible 櫃台負責配合客人！
Show notes: Here is a link to my conversation with Mischa Wilmers on his I'm Learning Mandarin podcast. Taipei Shorts , an annual theater ev...
Daily Practice (Normal Speed) - S3 - Lesson 07
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 07, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking six minutes a day to practice listening and imitatin...
S3 ~ 07 ~ Handsome brother goes to work 帥哥上班
Lesson Outline: [00:21] Review of tone pairs from lessons one through six. [02:30] Magic Phrase: 帥哥上班，外公退休 [08:20] Dialogue [11:40] Translat...
Daily Practice (Slow Speed) - S3 - Lesson 06
SLOW SPEED VERSION After listening to Season 3, Lesson 06, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking ten minutes a day to practice lis...
Daily Practice (Normal Speed) - S3 - Lesson 06
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 06, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking ten minutes a day to practice listening and imitatin...
S3 ~ 06 ~ The subway is leaking! 地鐵漏水！
The long-awaited episode 06 is finally here! This lesson's dialogue is longer than usual, so let's get right to it. Lesson Outline: [00:21]...
Daily Practice (Slow Speed) - S3 - Lesson 05
SLOW VERSION After listening to Season 3, Lesson 05, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking eight minutes a day to practice listeni...
Daily Practice (Normal Speed) - S3 - Lesson 05
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 05, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitati...
S3 ~ 05 ~ Forget the past 忘記過去
We can't understand a language outside the context of the people who live it and speak it. A human language cannot be contained in an artifa...
Daily Practice (Slow Speed) - S3 - Lesson 04
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 04, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking a few minutes a day to practice listening and imitat...
Daily Practice (Normal Speed) - S3 - Lesson 04
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 04, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitati...
S3 ~ 04 ~ The park is extremely safe 公園非常安全
Be mindful of how you're feeling when you practice these lessons. Are you feeling excited and energized? Tired and doubtful? Distracted? Foc...
Daily Practice Session - S3 - Lesson 03
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 03, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitati...
S3 ~ 03 ~ Dangerous horse riding 拿起啤酒騎馬危險！
Today's tone pair, 2-3, is easily confused with the one we learned in episode one, 3-2. Today we'll spend some time practicing differentiati...
Daily Practice Session - S3 - Lesson 02
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 02, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitati...
S3 ~ 02 ~ Supermarkets need music 超市需要音樂！
Let's learn another tone pair! Can you hear which one it is? Learning the pronunciation of a foreign language can sometimes feel strange, ev...
Daily Practice Session - S3 - Lesson 01
After listening to Season 3, Lesson 01, start reinforcing what you've learned by taking five minutes a day to practice listening and imitati...
S3 ~ 01 ~ American strawberries on sale 美國草莓打折！
Welcome back for Season 3! In this series, we are going to do a deep dive on the tones in Mandarin. We covered tones briefly in Season 1, Ep...
S2 ~ 17 ~ 你人真好！Part 2 + Season Finale!
Let's hear a line-by-line translation of the dialogue from lesson 16. This is the final lesson of Season 2 -- a milestone for both of us. Co...