Analyse your mistakes: An honest look at what I did wrong these 3 months
Benny reviews what went wrong during a three-month language project and shows how honest analysis can improve your next learning plan.
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Is Fluency in 3 Months Possible?
Benny explains what the Fluent in 3 Months name means, why fluency depends on the goal and why one timeline cannot fit everyone.
Benny travels China: the real point of the mission to speak Mandarin as quickly as possible
Follow Benny’s Mandarin mission as he travels overland through China and later Taiwan, using the language to connect with people along the way.
The underestimated usefulness of pre-fluency (My 2 month Mandarin video)
[Captions in traditional and simplified Chinese, as well as in English. Youku link for those in mainland China] Keeping up with the video-every-two-weeks plan, here is my two-month point! After a bumpy start, during which I hesitate a bit because I’m quite aware of the camera, you can see that once I got used to […]
Are you problem minded or solution minded? My 1.5 month level of Chinese [video]
Since we are at exactly the half-way point of my three month mission to speak fluent Chinese, it’s time for another video update! This time, it is 100% unprepared, unscripted, and unrehearsed 😉 Check it out: [Subtitles in traditional & simplified Chinese, as well as in English; enable YouTube’s closed captioning to see – mistakes […]
Benny’s 1 month level of Mandarin: Lantern festival interviews!
Watch Benny interview people at Taipei’s Lantern Festival one month into his Mandarin mission, with captions in English and Traditional Chinese.
Progress report: Thoughts on one month of learning Mandarin & some FAQs
Read Benny’s one-month Mandarin progress report from Taipei, including changes to his approach to tones, conversation practice and Chinese characters.
Benny’s first video attempt in Mandarin: 2 weeks after starting
Watch Benny’s first Mandarin video, recorded two weeks after he started, and see how a prepared apartment tour helped him practise speaking.
My First Week Speaking, Reading and Writing Chinese
Benny’s archived first week learning Mandarin in Taipei: early conversations, tones, characters, pinyin input, practical problems and honest limits.
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