by Mi Kai
I'm Learning Mandarin is a podcast that dives deep into the questions that matter to Chinese learners. Host, Mischa Wilmers, talks to the world's leading scholars and draws on his experience of self-studying the language to fluency. Visit the Im Learning Mandarin blog. Popular posts include: Your Ultimate Guide To Learning Chinese Tones: https://imlearningmandarin.com/2024/09/16/its-never-too-late-to-learn-chinese-tones-heres-how/ How Long Does It Take To Learn Mandarin: https://imlearningmandarin.com/2024/09/09/reality-check-can-you-actually-master-mandarin-in-six-months/
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April 16, 2025
<p>Today, I'm going to talk through a really simple method that you can use to use AI to generate your very own Mandarin tongue twisters .</p><p><br></p><p>Recently, I started using a method with my students where we would create our own tongue twisters centered around their specific pronunciation problems. </p><p><br></p><p>Today, I'm going to explain in three simple stages how I've been creating these tongue twisters with my students and how they use them to improve their pronunciation. </p>
April 9, 2025
<p>On today's episode, I'm going to play my speech which I recently made at the Asiaglot conference in Taipei. </p><p><br></p><p>The speech is called The Inconvenient Truth About Mandarin Learning. And in it, I talk about my own Mandarin Learning Journey and some of the methods that I initially followed, which were a combination of traditional methods and also comprehensible input methods. </p><p><br></p><p>I go into how these methods worked to varying degrees, but there were certain obstacles that I came up against which I wasn't able to find any solutions to when turning to traditional education or comprehensible input. </p><p><br></p><p>And I go on to talk about what the solutions that I did find involved, and how that really helped me on my Mandarin learning journey. </p><p><br></p><p>The audio recording quality of this speech that I gave at Asiaglot was not the best, but I've tried to salvage it a little bit through some editing. So hopefully it's good enough that you can hear it pretty clearly.2 </p>
April 2, 2025
<p>Links: </p><p><br></p><p>Discord server: <a href="https://discord.gg/b9PAyKwT9p" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://discord.gg/b9PAyKwT9p</a></p><p><br></p><p>My Asiaglot experience: <a href="https://imlearningmandarin.com/2025/03/30/my-experience-at-asiaglot-asias-hottest-multilingual-conference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://imlearningmandarin.com/2025/03/30/my-experience-at-asiaglot-asias-hottest-multilingual-conference/</a></p><p><br></p><p>--</p><p><br></p><p>This week on the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast, I discuss how you can use Deepseek as a game-changing tool to become fluent in Chinese. </p><p>As we've previously covered, while tools like <a href="https://imlearningmandarin.com/2024/05/19/does-chatgpt-speak-authentic-chinese-the-results-of-my-study-may-surprise-you/">ChatGPT</a> are helpful for various aspects of Mandarin learning, they often fall short when it comes to generating truly natural, colloquial speech. </p><p>This is because their training data seems to be heavily weighted towards more formal, sometimes translated sources. </p><p>Native speakers often point out that while <a href="https://imlearningmandarin.com/2024/05/19/does-chatgpt-speak-authentic-chinese-the-results-of-my-study-may-surprise-you/">ChatGPT's Mandarin</a> is usually grammatically correct, it just doesn't sound like how real people talk.</p><p>That's where <a href="https://chat.deepseek.com/">Deepseek</a>, the Chinese version of ChatGPT, really excels. </p><p>Despite some of its limitations, such political censorship and data concerns, there is no doubt that it excels at generating authentic spoken Mandarin, which is exactly what we Mandarin learners need when it comes to improving our conversational skills.</p><p>So, how can you effectively use Deepseek to level up your spoken Mandarin? </p><p>Listen to the episode to find out!</p>
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