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Chinese and English Language podcast. A mixed couple (Tom & Ula) living in Taiwan, teach Chinese through the use of Chinglish (Chinese and English) on a variety of topics. Learn Chinese, study methods, Entertainment, news, life, business, hints and tricks to learning Mandarin. Hear a native speaking naturally and at natural pace but with the English translation so you can follow the context of the conversation. Enjoy.

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  • Listener Mailbag: First Mandarin Win to Night Market Fails

    Listener Mailbag: First Mandarin Win to Night Market Fails
    Oct 3 2025

    Listener Mailbag is back. This week your stories cover first Mandarin wins, night market fails, and everything in between. We read your emails about dreaming in tones, KTV redemption songs, taxi mistakes, and the joy of ordering food without pointing. You’ll hear how small slips turn into lasting lessons, why confidence matters more than beer bravery, and how to keep learning when tests and tones trip you up.


    Send your story: chat@mandarinmonkey.com

    Lessons, hangouts, and intensives: mandarinmonkey.com

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    59 m
  • Learn Mandarin Through Wild Camping

    Learn Mandarin Through Wild Camping
    Oct 1 2025

    Learn Mandarin through real conversations. Episode 422 covers wild camping, from rain and wind in the UK to snakes and bears in Taiwan. Pick up camping words in Chinese, hear how to talk about fishing and food, and enjoy bilingual chat in English and Mandarin.


    Key Mandarin words from this episode:


    野营 (yě yíng) – wild camping

    帐篷 (zhàng péng) – tent

    篝火 (gōu huǒ) – campfire

    蚊子 (wén zi) – mosquito

    獾 (huān) – badger

    蛇 (shé) – snake

    熊 (xióng) – bear

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    40 m
  • Listener Mailbag: Stuck After HSK3 - Now What?

    Listener Mailbag: Stuck After HSK3 - Now What?
    Sep 26 2025

    Your emails, your questions, your Mandarin struggles.

    In this first Listener Mailbag, we tackle:

    • Tone panic ordering 牛肉麵

    • How to pronounce 出去 without tripping

    • ü vs u, and why “iu” sounds like “yo”

    • Zhuyin vs Pinyin — which works in Taiwan

    • Why HSK tests don’t prepare you for street speed

    • Training your ears to real Mandarin

    • Karaoke learning, flashcard guilt, and more


    Email your questions to chat@mandarinmonkey.com and we might answer them next time.

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I studied Chinese about 10 years ago and have recently begun re-learning it. I'm quite busy though and it's hard to dedicate time daily lessons at this point, and I also want to make sure I'm going to stick with it before I commit financially to something like that. I had the idea to just try some immersion for free by listening to this podcast while I am doing non-meeting things at work, kind of in the background. After one day of listening to two podcasts, I woke up the next morning and began remembering all kinds of things I had forgotten from 10 years ago - it definitely is "sinking in" and tapping into the deeper parts of my mind.

Aside from that, it's quite entertaining most of the time, and I enjoy the way it goes back and forth from English to Chinese. I've slowly started to add a few other things into my learning, like the Drops app (5 free minutes of vocab every day), and the more I listen to the podcast the more I am wanting to do - the more I am inspired to continue learning.

If I could make one suggestion for the hosts, I would love if you could provide the website names (or a link somewhere on your website under "resources") for some of the things you all reference. You often talk about good resources to help people learn, but I have had a hard time finding some of those just by Googling - but I would like to find them! Just a thought...

While this podcast probably won't ever just teach you Chinese if you do nothing but listen to it, I think this is a wonderful supplement to other learning you are doing. I've also been doing a Paul Noble audio program through Audible and I was having a hard time remembering some of it when I was "away from" it. Now that I've started listening to this podcast daily, everything I'm learning is sticking better in my memory - I think of it way more often, and it's becoming more natural. And you WILL learn some things just by listening as well.

Thank you for hosting this podcast - I really enjoy it! If you're an English speaker wanting to immerse yourself in more Chinese language, this is a great, free way to do so.

This was just what I was looking for

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Helps my mandarin so much! I get the input I need from Ula and the context from Tom. Plus it’s fun.

Great show

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