“I really love this podcast. I am an American born Chinese guy who grew up speaking some basic mandarin at home but needed to improve my vocabulary to have conversations as an adult in the working world.
There are very few Mandarin podcasts that are geared towards intermediate Mandarin learners looking to improve to native speaker level. Most podcasts are way too basic and assume you have zero mandarin background.
Jiajia, the podcast creator is a teacher by training and it shows in the way she organizes and designs each episode. She manages to throw in complex sentence structures and advanced vocabulary, idioms in a very natural way, the way a native speaker actually uses these phrases.
In addition, she does an excellent job writing each episode’s companion transcription which includes more detailed descriptions of the most challenging/idiomatic phrases.
Finally, her Mandarin pronunciation is perfect and the cadence at which she speaks is extremely natural but at a much more understandable pace than listening to say, Chinese news or talk shows.
I have been amazed at how much my listening and reading/writing skills have improved during the 4-5 months I’ve been listening to this podcast.
Thanks Jiajia for doing a great job; keep up the great work!”
MandarinGirlDad via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/28/20