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Sep 2021
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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 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 everythingDiscordhttps://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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