Time to Level Up! Examples of how you can use your language anywhere
Benny shares real examples of finding people to practise Mandarin, Hungarian and Esperanto, showing that you can use a language anywhere.
Language: Chinese
Language Learning Quotes and Chinese Proverbs for Motivation
A source-checked collection of language learning quotes and Chinese proverbs, with original scripts, pinyin and practical ways to use them.
Did I Really Learn to Speak Chinese in 3 Months?
An independent evaluator reviews Benny’s 2012 Mandarin mission, what he could do after three months and where the result fell short of fluency.
2,000km train journey video: Benny gets his Chinese name, makes new friends and meets pandas!
Join Benny's 2,000 km train trip from Shanghai to Chengdu as he practises Chinese, receives a Chinese name and meets fellow passengers and pandas.
Is Chinese Hard to Learn? What Mandarin Actually Requires
Is Chinese hard to learn? See what Mandarin requires for tones, characters, typing, vocabulary and grammar, plus a practical first-month routine.
Benny’s 3.25 month video: questions that waste your time
Watch Benny's Mandarin interview after three months and one week, with an honest look at his progress and the comparisons that waste learners' time.
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.
How to get over a plateau stopping you from making progress: how I’m doing it with my Chinese
Break through a language-learning plateau by identifying the biggest problem you can act on now, then changing your strategy to tackle it directly.
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 […]
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