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May 2024
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From Zero to Fluent in Two Years: I’m Le...

Mi Kai
About this episode

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My free Mandarin learning eBook: https://www.peakmandarin.com/free-ebook


Chinese transcript and translation: imlearningmandarin.com


Clement's Twitter: https://x.com/cjpgverrier


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On today’s podcast, I broadcast the first of what I hope will be many Chinese monologues submitted by listeners to this podcast.

Today’s recording is by Clement, an I’m Learning Mandarin listener from France who lives in Taiwan. He talks us through his fascinating Chinese learning experiences.

I first met Clement in Taiwan a year ago after he attended a group language exchange session I organised.

He’s since gone on to use many of the methods we recommend on this podcast, including sentence mining and tone training and, as you’ll soon hear, has achieved an outstanding level of pronunciation and spoken fluency within just two years of learning.

As usual, you can find a Chinese transcript for this episode along with an English translation on imlearningmandarin.com

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Now over to Clement!

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