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Mar 2025
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Interviewing Lewys entirely in Mandarin ...

Mi Kai
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On today’s episode I interview my student Lewys entirely in Mandarin Chinese.


Lewys is a 31 year-old accountant from wales who lives in the UK with his Chinese wife and young daughter.


You may remember him from an interview I recorded with him last summer in which we discussed the difficulties he’d faced learning the language.


At that point, Lewys had been learning Mandarin for around two years in order to communicate with his Chinese mother-in-law and extended family.


He’d tried most of the apps and classes everyone tries. But nothing really worked. Here’s a clip of what he sounded like at that time.


He was close to giving up. But instead, last year he contacted me for help after coming across the I'm Learning Mandarin blog.


And in today's episode I document his progress over 6 months on my coaching programme, supporting him to transform his spoken Mandarin.


If you’re impressed with the results that Lewys was able to achieve on my coaching programme while holding a full-time job and having a young child, then listen on.


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