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Mandarin From the Ground Up

Isaac Myers

Learn to speak Mandarin the same way you learned your native language: by imitating what you hear. No memorizing, no tedious grammar lessons, no superhuman willpower, just the sounds of Chin...

Episodes

20 of 78 episodes

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...

5:24Jun 25, 2024

S3 ~ 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...

25:55Jun 24, 2024

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...

6:20Nov 1, 2023

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...

27:25Oct 31, 2023

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...

12:28Sep 13, 2023

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...

7:36Sep 13, 2023

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]...

30:24Sep 12, 2023

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...

8:28Jul 5, 2023

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...

6:00Jul 5, 2023

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...

24:46Jul 4, 2023

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...

7:04Jun 17, 2023

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...

4:57Jun 17, 2023

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...

22:35Jun 16, 2023

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...

3:31May 25, 2023

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...

17:06May 24, 2023

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...

5:05May 11, 2023

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...

14:30May 10, 2023

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...

5:17May 2, 2023

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...

21:10May 1, 2023

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...

16:41Feb 28, 2023