Mandarin Blueprint is the most ambitious online Chinese learning curriculum ever attempted. Not only because it integrates pronunciation, characters, vocabulary & grammar acquisition materials, but more importantly because it teaches how to relate everything you need to know about Chinese to your personal lived experience.
Everything about your past is a potential connection you can make to Mandarin, and we're experts at helping you find them. Not to mention, Chinese is a super cool language! Once you get several characters under your belt, you're going to have a paradigm shift about language. Meaning is expressed using entirely different component parts, and we've only become more fascinated by it the deeper we've delved into it. Join Luke Neale & Phil Crimmins as we explore not only Chinese but how connecting Mandarin to our past lived experiences helped us learn in a fraction of the time.
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Mandarin Blueprint is the most ambitious online Chinese learning curriculum ever attempted. Not only because it integrates pronunciation, characters, vocabulary & grammar acquisition materials, but more importantly because it teaches how to relate everything you need to know about Chinese to your personal lived experience.
Everything about your past is a potential connection you can make to Mandarin, and we're experts at helping you find them. Not to mention, Chinese is a super cool language! Once you get several characters under your belt, you're going to have a paradigm shift about language. Meaning is expressed using entirely different component parts, and we've only become more fascinated by it the deeper we've delved into it. Join Luke Neale & Phil Crimmins as we explore not only Chinese but how connecting Mandarin to our past lived experiences helped us learn in a fraction of the time.
00:00 Intro 00:40 Why Most People Fail With Flashcards 02:45 The Right Flashcard Structure 06:43 Sentence Flashcards 11:31 Essential Optimization Principles 17:07 Outro
00:00 Intro 02:33 Why “No Zero Days” Works 04:35 Path 1: The Zero Days Approach 05:06 Path 2: The NO Zero Days Approach 06:14 Your Minimum Viable Study Routine 07:34 What To DO Each Day 08:30 Overcoming the Biggest Objections 08:55 The Identity Shift 09:34 Your Next Steps
00:00 Intro 00:33 Belief #1: Consistency Beats 03:17 Belief #2: Trust the Process (And Your Brain) 04:57 Belief #3: Clarity Comes With Time 06:38 Belief #4: Nobody Cares If I Make Mistakes 08:31 Belief #5: Mandarin Is Not Hard—It’s Different 09:53 Belief #6: Fluency, Not Perfection 11:36 Belief #7: I Am In Control of My […]
00:00 Intro 01:19 Experiment 1: Listen and Repeat (The Foundation That Actually Worked) 03:16 Experiment 2: Traditional Learning Methods (The Expensive Trap) 05:36 Experiment 3: Rote Learning and Flashcard Obsession (The 500-Hour Mistake) 07:54 Experiment 4: Grammar Study 10:18 Experiment 5: Listening to the experts 12:40 Experiment 6: Memory Palaces for Characters (The Breakthrough) 14:38 […]
00:00 Intro 01:07 6 Major Problems 01:24 Problem #1: Characters Feel Like Random Squiggles 02:23 Problem #2: You Don’t Know How to Learn Thousands of Words 03:04 Problem #3: Tones Feel Unnatural and Scary 03:31 Problem #4: Grammar Is Confusing and Unstructured 04:41 Problem #5: You Don’t Understand What You’re Hearing 05:21 Problem #6: You […]
00:00 Intro 00:59 The Problem Most Learners Face + Why 03:20 The Three Step System for Solo Fluency 03:54 STEP 1: BUILD 05:14 STEP 2: GET 07:37 STEP 3: ACTIVATE 14:03 Stage 1: Absolute Beginner 15:03 Stage 2: Early Intermediate 17:04 Stage 3: Upper Intermediate to Advanced 18:13 Conclusion and NEXT step
00:00 Intro 01:45 Way One: The Know-It-All Trap 03:21 Way Two: Needing to Understand Everything 06:22 Way Three: Fear of Mistakes 11:05 Way Four: Overconfidence from Early Wins 12:41 Way Five: Comparison 13:30 Conclusion and Next step
00:00 Intro 04:34 #1: Hanzi Movie Method (Mnemonic Visualization) 07:52 #2: Living Links (mnemonic association) 09:57 #3: Spaced Repetition 10:58 #4: Shadowing 11:48 #5: Active Recall Speaking & Flashcards 12:54 #6: Language Islands 15:27 #7: Immersion with Real Chinese Content 16:55 #8: Speaking With Natives 18:55 Conclusion and NEXT step
00:00 Intro 01:14 Cause #1: Poor Foundation 01:27 Cause #2: Not Enough Input 01:49 Cause #3: Not Enough Speaking Practice Exercises 01:59 Cause #4: Not Enough Focus on Sentences 02:50 Technique One: Extensive Listening 03:59 Technique Two: High-Volume Listen and Repeat Training 06:47 Technique Three: The Hanzi Movie Method 08:25 Conclusion and Next step
00:00 Intro 00:53 The first major constraint: Structure 01:36 The second major constraint: Methodology 02:20 The third major constraint: Consistency 03:18 If Your Constraint is STRUCTURE: You need to know WHAT to focus on and WHEN 05:11 If Your Constraint is METHODOLOGY: HOW to make it fun and make it stick 06:19 BUILD comprehension 10:07 […]
00:00 Intro 01:58 Reason 1: You’re not creating enough connections 03:13 Reason 2: You’re forgetting because you’re reviewing the wrong way 04:13 Reason 3: Focusing too much on passive recognition, not enough on active recall 10:09 Shadowing 10:36 Retrieval Practice 12:19 Conclusion and NEXT Step
00:00 Intro 01:00 1. It’s out of your control 01:30 2. People don’t talk like they do in learning materials 01:49 3. The Real World Is Loud 02:23 1. Tones Change Meaning 03:05 2. Many Words Sound the Same 03:33 3. Accents Make Things Even Harder 05:50 Use Mnemonics 08:00 Learn Characters to Boost Word […]
00:00 Intro 01:00 Why Listening Alone Isn’t Enough for Fluency 02:30 The Hidden Problem with Only Learning Pinyin 04:15 How Chinese Characters Create Built-In Logic 06:00 Patterns That Unlock Vocabulary Exponentially 07:45 Why Reading Accelerates Listening and Comprehension 09:15 Think 3,000 Characters Is Too Much? Think Again 11:00 Conclusion and next steps
00:00 Intro 00:22 Myth #1: Learning Fluent Chinese is an Impossible Task 04:06 Myth #2: The Chinese writing system is impossible (or takes many years) to master 06:18 Myth #3: Tones are Impossibly Difficult to get right 11:05 Myth #4: You Have to Live in China to Become Fluent 13:28 Myth #5: Learning Chinese Isn’t […]
Mandarin Blueprint is the most ambitious online Chinese learning curriculum ever attempted. Not only because it integrates pronunciation, characters, vocabulary & grammar acquisition materials, but more importantly because it teaches how to relate everything you need to know about Chinese to your personal lived experience.
Everything about your past is a potential connection you can make to Mandarin, and we're experts at helping you find them. Not to mention, Chinese is a super cool language! Once you get several characters under your belt, you're going to have a paradigm shift about language. Meaning is expressed using entirely different component parts, and we've only become more fascinated by it the deeper we've delved into it. Join Luke Neale & Phil Crimmins as we explore not only Chinese but how connecting Mandarin to our past lived experiences helped us learn in a fraction of the time.
