Mandarin Blueprint
Online Chinese Language Learning
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Show overview
Mandarin Blueprint has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 293 episodes, alongside 4 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 240 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 33 min and 1h 4m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Education show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 18 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2020, with 79 episodes published.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
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How to Memorize Any Chinese Word in Seconds
The 80/20 Rule of Chinese
The Math Behind Chinese Fluency (It’s Not What You Think)
Why Smart People Struggle Learning Chinese
Why the Best Chinese Learning Methods Feel Hard
00:00 Intro 01:17 PART 1: THE TWO TRAPS 02:07 TRAP ONE: EASY AND INEFFECTIVE 03:37 TRAP TWO: HARD AND INEFFECTIVE 04:41 THE THIRD CATEGORY: Hard at First, Easy Later 05:19 PART 2: WHY THE RIGHT KIND OF “HARD” WORKS 07:48 PART 3: THE METHODS THAT ARE WORTH THE STRUGGLE 17:09 PART 4: THE BORING FACTOR […]
The Secret to Understanding Chinese
00:00 Intro 00:53 PART 1: WHY CHINESE SOUNDS SO CONFUSING 02:37 PART 2: THE REAL SOLUTION (THE SECRET TECHNIQUE) 05:53 PART 3: WHY THIS WORKS (THE SCIENCE) 07:41 PART 4: HOW TO APPLY THIS (PRACTICAL STEPS) 10:34 PART 5: THE STRATEGIC APPROACH (TYING IT ALL TOGETHER) 12:03 PART 6: WHY THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING 12:53 CONCLUSION […]
How to Start Learning Chinese The Right Way
00:00 Intro 00:35 THE REAL PROBLEM: DECISION 01:53 THE THREE PILLARS OF FLUENCY 03:17 PRONUNCIATION FOUNDATION 04:29 YOUR FIRST 30 DAYS: BUILD YOUR FOUNDATION 10:16 KEEP BUILDING TO 1,000 WORDS 12:42 ACTIVATION: TURNING KNOWLEDGE INTO FLUENCY 14:41 THE PATH TO FLUENCY 16:11 CONCLUSION AND NEXT STEP
How To Fix Your Broken Mandarin Pronunciation
00:00 Intro 03:33 PROBLEM #1: PRONOUNCING CHINESE LIKE ENGLISH 07:30 PROBLEM #2: OVER-PRONUNCIATION 10:38 PROBLEM #3: TONES 12:04 THE THREE-PILLAR SOLUTION 12:19 Pillar #1: Foundation 12:47 Pillar #2: Massive Input 14:52 Pillar #3 is High-Rep Output 19:22 CONCLUSION
We Guaranteed Mandarin Fluency for $10k
00:00 Intro 02:02 LESSON 1: DEPTH OVER BREADTH – FLUENCY FIRST, PROFICIENCY LATER 06:34 LESSON 2: NATIVE SPEAKERS ARE OVERRATED – OUTPUT ISN’T 15:51 LESSON 3: PEOPLE NEED TO BE REMINDED MORE THAN THEY NEED TO BE TAUGHT 20:42 LESSON 4: CONSISTENCY BEATS INTENSITY 23:48 LESSON 5 FLUENCY ISN’T COMPLICATED 25:50 CONCLUSION AND NEXT STEP
How to Use AI To CRUSH Chinese
00:00 Intro 02:28 Part 1: Build 03:39 DEMO how to use both GPTs 07:28 Part 2: Get 12:58 DEMO Use NotebookLM 18:43 Part 3: Activate 23:07 Part 4: Integrate 27:42 Conclusion and Next step
The 80/20 Rule of Chinese
00:00 Intro 01:54 THE PARETO PRINCIPLE IN CHINESE 03:53 DEEP VS. BROAD — THE SCOTT STORY 05:19 THE COMPOUNDING MATH 06:28 THE OCLO PRINCIPLE 07:48 REALISTIC TIMELINES 09:46 THE THREE-PHASE STRATEGY 11:30 THE COMFORT ZONE TRAP 12:34 CONCLUSION AND NEXT STEP
The Math Behind Chinese Fluency (It’s Not What You Think)
00:00 Intro 02:11 WHY IT FEELS SO SLOW 04:00 WHY CHARACTERS COMPOUND 07:51 WHY IT CAN FEEL EVEN SLOWER WITH THE RIGHT METHOD 09:15 THE MILESTONES 12:39 MAKING IT ALL COMPOUND 14:35 WHAT TO DO WITH THIS 16:45 CONCLUSION AND NEXT STEP
How To Use Flashcards to CRUSH Chinese
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
The ONE Thing That Guarantees Fluency
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