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Jun 2021
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#216 - The Flaws of Us All | Chinglish L...

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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. Enjoy extra audio awesomeness or join the Mandarin Monkey WhatsApp group. Websitehttps://www.mandarinmonkey.comIntensive Coursehttps://mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/Awesome Bloghttps://mandarinmonkey.com/blog/HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LISThttps://mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/Get Amazing Mandarin toolswww.patreon.com/mandarinmonkeySkritter - Learn to write Chinesehttps://skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkeyUse promoCode: MANDARINMONKEYfor 10% off everythingDiscord https://discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8dThe Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

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