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Let's talk about the different motivations behind learning Mandarin

Much is made of how difficult it is for non-Asians to learn Mandarin. And the evidence is not just anecdotal: Mandarin Chinese is one of only five languages that fall into Category 5 of the FSI ratings, which empirically estimate how long it takes to reach "Professional Working Proficiency" in a language. Only Arabic, Japanese, Cantonese and Korean...

Let's talk about the power of language exchanges and why you must exploit them if you want to get fluent in Mandarin.

Let's look at another fantastic way to boost your speaking skills that you can do wherever you are, whether or not there's a native speaker around. This is called Parroting.

You're about to learn a fantastic method for boosting your Chinese speaking skills. I call it the Cicero Method. This is perfect if you're at intermediate level, but it'll also work for beginners too, so long as you have comprehensible texts to use.