Mandarin Monkey Podcast

Make your birthday amazing by knowing how to wish for something in Mandarin Chinese when you blow out the candles. We don't chat much in this one as we wanted to get straight to the story and vocabulary review. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitewww.mandarinmonkey.comIntensive Coursemandarinmonkey.c...

Being willing. Being part of the community. The infamous Orange Juice story. Fun conversation. But ends deep. Enjoy. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitewww.mandarinmonkey.comIntensive Coursemandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/Awesome Blogmandarinmonkey.com/blog/HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LISTmandarin...

Our story and vocabulary today is about mythological creatures. We talk about a number of made up creatures from books and from the past in this one. Learn a few new words and comment which one you like. OR tell us one we didn't include. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitewww.mandarinmonkey.comInten...

REUPLOADED WITH MISSING BEGINNING. The difficulties of raising a big family. The convenience of 7/11. Smashing through hump day. Owning a small night market stall in Taiwan. It's all on the tabel in todays episode. The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is now at 30k downloads/listens a month, thanks to everyone who has been with us on this journey. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy...

Our story this week is about the fuel crisis currently ongoing in the UK. Huge queues, massive delays and panic buying have led to a small breakdown in the country. We are also with cold. Little Max is home and sick, Mason has a sniffle, Kairi a small cough and Ula is feeling under the weather. But we power through it on this excited episode of the Mandarin Monkey Podcast. Choose your monkey power...

We talk about grit in this one. One of the most important things in doing anything. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitewww.mandarinmonkey.comIntensive Coursemandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/Awesome Blogmandarinmonkey.com/blog/HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LISTmandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/Get Ama...

Fickle weather, wearin PJs at the supermarket, big dogs, using 'seriously' in Mandarin, sperm whales, we cover all the BIG TOPICS in this episode. Big topics, important, life changing discussion being hads right here. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitewww.mandarinmonkey.comIntensive Coursemandarinm...

We begin season 2 of the Mandarin Monkey podcast after having moved countries in our new home. Discuss the flight and some of the things that happened to us on the way. It's the beginning of a months worth of stories. 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 Courseh...

This is the final episode for this season until September when we have settled down a little bit. We test Ula on all her favorite foods which means you get to learn a bunch of new food words. This episode was recorded on Tuesday but scheduled to go out Friday so no disruption for you guys. :) Hope everyone has an awesome couple of weeks! and we will see you very soon! Choose your monkey power. Com...

Ula tells a cultural story in this episode of the Mandarin Monkey Podcast. We have a slightly different format this time as Ula tells the longer than normal story then we break down the story and ask questions about the language used within. The story is that of Yuèxià lǎorén the God of marriage. And a curious and homicidal gentleman by he name of Wei Gu. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a f...

We discuss couples therapy, our continued lack of sleep, but dealing with anxiety and moving forward. We talk about language learning and children and about incorporating language at home. Along with all the usual digressions that Mandarin Monkey Podcast entails. Choose your monkey power. Come and get a free lesson. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websiteh...

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...