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    How Long Does it Take to Learn Mandarin?  

    ByChris Lonsdale

    If you’re wondering how long it would take to learn Mandarin Chinese, the answer of course has to be: “it depends”. People usually ask it a different way — is Mandarin hard to learn? — and the honest answer is that it’s different, not hard. If you make a decision to use your brain and your time in the correct way, and put in adequate time, then you could be communicating competently at a basic level within a few months. In other words, the time to learn Mandarin depends far more on your method than on the language itself. You Can Learn To Speak Mandarin in Six Months If you want a rough learn Mandarin timeline, think in months, not years. For me personally, from…

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    Magic from the Speech Genie

    ByJohn Ball

    Learning a new language as an adult is difficult, requiring years of work to progress. Or does it? Today’s discussion is with Chris Lonsdale, the creator of Kungfu English, a system designed to mimic his success in learning Mandarin and Cantonese as a 20-year-old. Subscribe now Chris is a language educator and psycho-linguist whose system has been teaching Mandarin Chinese speakers how to speak English since the early 2000s. I have started working with him to integrate my brain-based AI solution with a more general version of his language learning application — the result? Introducing Speech Genie! The first available languages will be English and Mandarin. The magic of the Genie is in using your brain’s capabilities to learn language in a way that mimics…