Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Todays story is about packing as we are doing a lot of it. This story actually has a lot of interesting Mandarin words and patterns in it, including how to say 'sorting' and 'type'. We also say box a lot as we have been saying it to each other a great deal these last few weeks as we gear up for our England move. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or...

We do a personality quiz and find out what personality Tom & Ula have and decide on if we think that's true or not. We also discuss the on goings of moving life and dealing with what's coming up. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitehttps://www.mandarinmonkey.comIntensive Coursehttps://mandarinmonkey....

Shapes are the focus of todays story. Because, frankly, we haven't ever discussed them before. So the story is that of shapes. A shapely story if you will. A story for all shapes and sizes. But mainly just about shapes. No it isn't an allegory. It's just a story about shapes. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp gr...

We discuss legumes, and people who tell you things when you didn't ask them to. We talk about colors and American and British English. We discuss letting go, and about vocabulary differences in Chinese and English and life's ups and downs. Also Bob Ross and helping us sleep. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp gro...

We discuss the Tokyo Olympics in this story episode of the Mandarin Monkey podcast. The amazing addition of Sky Brown a UK professional skateboarder at only 13! This story does not stop us talking about being in a mixed relationship and having mixed race children. That goes a little deep as usual. We are a few months into the new quarantine. So bare with us. :) You will learn words around sports p...

We discuss bad news in the mortgage department, reflect on buying a house, bean bags instead of sofas, regrets and health above money. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitehttps://www.mandarinmonkey.comIntensive Coursehttps://mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/Awesome Bloghttps://mandarinmonkey.com/b...

We talk about several disasters that happened a number years ago and the outcomes. Our story today revolves around using disaster and Mandarin based around disasters. We also discuss being masters at speaking and listening and having an awesome bunch of people to call friends and community. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Mon...

A quiz on privilege leads us deep into discussion and reflection on gratitude and life again. We are going slightly stir crazy due to the quarantine and virus but trying to stay in high spirits. We life and we learn in this one. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitehttps://www.mandarinmonkey.comIntens...

You will learn about learning words in this episode as the story centers around speaking skill, listening skill, tones, verbs, nouns, adjectives and sentence structure in Mandarin Chinese. We also discuss Ula's birth circumstances and Tom's dad crazy girlfriend. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websiteht...

Using the word 'rude' and 'bored' in the wrong way has interesting consequences and throws us down a strange conversation path. Football and relationships. Giving up. Making new friends in different countries and whether one needs those things to survive. Counting good friends on your hand. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Mon...

We tell a survival story in this podcast. We will be talking about the use of water purifiers, grills and how to say 'build' something. We also we discuss how to use 'collect' in Chinese as well which could be a very useful word for you. On a more personal note we talk about returning to the UK and Ula's fear of it. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomenes...

Capital gains tax? that makes for a riveting conversation! We also discuss surviving on a raft when a shark wants to eat you constantly. And lots of word in Mandarin for things you need to survive. You will learn the Chinese words for tax things as well nearer the end. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. We...

Starting a new game is the topic for this weeks story. All those options you get in the game menu when you are playing a new game, we go through in detail during the Mandarin Chinese vocabulary section of this podcast episode. The story is also about starting a new game, which means you get all the vocabulary in context. We also have a good chat for 30 minutes before the story begins. Choose your...

We decide to start gaming again. Also migrating from WhatsApp to Discord. This podcast gets derailed by two small people who want tog grab the microphone. We discuss games we are going to be live streaming and teaching about. We talk about how to use the word for group and team in Mandarin Chinese. We hope everyone has an awesome Friday! and enjoys whatever they are doing while listening. Choose y...

Our story this week is not that of Shakespeare/Dickens, but that of Tomspeare. No where near as prose-esc though. It's a simple tale of two cities and the small differences between them. You will be learning the Mandarin Chinese words for city based stuff including crime rate, buildings, populations, busy etc. Also you will hear us chat about or worries and psychology in general. It's like a Ching...

We are back to regular programming with episode 216 of the Mandarin Monkey podcast. The flaws of us all. Why do we call it the flaw of us all? We discuss learning Mandarin as usual, but the difficulties of it, along with lying to each other, living with each other, finding sweaty people attractive and a long list of digressions from the offset. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson....

Electrical problems stopped us recording the podcast but tomorrow we are on as the electrician promises us to have it done by then! Sorry for the irregular programming schedule this week. Www. Mandarinmonkey.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We speak to our awesome intensive course testers in this episode to discuss their experience. We then fall into various holes including tattoos, Japan, food, dates, travel, Disney, accents and a whole bunch of other things. Ula, as always speaks Mandarin Chinese throughout and the rest of us use Chinglish, as it was meant to be. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra aud...

This is the Intensive course story. We discuss, accents, hangouts, Universal Studios and living at Disney, quarantine, blue Mondays. Generally its a happy Monday feeling all round with the Mandarin Monkey podcast. We go through lots of new Mandarin Chinese vocabulary in this episodes story relating to learning. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or...

We talk about sarcasm in Mandarin Chinese (Eva) and about dirty language (Dan). We also discuss the class system in UK and in Taiwan and what it means to be from which if there are any. Ula tests Tom on abbreviations and acronyms. A fun one today. Have a great Friday everyone! Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp g...

Ours story today is about bad and good luck. We discuss the raising Covid cases, the rolling blackouts and the drought currently happening in Taiwan. The power outage blew the fuse box and broke a number of lights and our TV. It's been quite a challenging weekend. But we have stayed positive. Ula speaks Mandarin Tom speak English. Chinglish throughout. A great way to get your Mandarin Chinese list...

We introduce the three newest teachers and members of the Mandarin Monkey team in this episode. Please put your Mandarin hats on as this one is 90% Mandarin and at native speed. We discuss learning methods, backgrounds, history, music, languages and more in this special episode of the Mandarin Monkey podcast. Beny, Claire and Cynthia Laoshi are all now available on the Mandarin Monkey's website an...

We read from the Mandarin Monkey's Chinglish stories, directly from our website today as we recant the tale of Tom (not our Tom) and his Deja Vu day. We substitute multiple sentences and use the vocab list from our website. You will learn a load. The story is quite long so settle down with a hot cup of coffee and put your listening hat on. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjo...

It's death and taxes day. The only two things that we know are coming for us all. And they are up for discussion in today's Mandarin Monkey podcast. We cover a bunch of different topic including the current covid 19 situation in Taiwan and some new passports for our UK trip. All done in delectable Chinglish. and ideal mix if you are learning Mandarin Chinese but also don't want to be lost in the t...

It's story time again and this time we talk about the rising virus cases in Taiwan. Also about getting a vaccine. You will learn a bunch of word surrounding this topic. There is the obviously and usual waffle at the beginning in Chinese and English. So no missing out there. Learn Chinese through Chinglish with Mandarin Monkey. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio...