Mike’s personal passion for language is clear in everything that the company does, from the approach to the products he puts out (I recently picked up a copy of his 10-language/dialect dictionary of Chinese characters – which is a true labour of love, and clearly a project by a real language enthusiast).
On the Chinese side, all his core courses are available in simplified Chinese versions (with mainland China-accented audio) traditional Chinese character versions (with Taiwan-accented audio), and they even offer other Chinese languages/dialects: Cantonese, Hakka, Taiwanese Hokkien and Wenzhou dialect. Mike’s company Glossika produces courses for an incredible range of languages, from French or Italian to Burmese, Lithuanian and almost any language you could mention. I’d bought his French and Spanish courses in the past, so when he contacted me recently about checking out some of his Chinese courses in more detail, I naturally agreed. He’s also been active in the language learning community for a long time. He’s lived in Taiwan for more than a decade and speaks several languages to a high degree of fluency. I’ve been following Mike for a long, long time. I wanted to produce a solution to help people bridge the gap between functionality in a language and greater fluency, based on the methods I used to build up fluency in Chinese.īut somebody got there before me, and that person’s name is Mike Campbell. I have tried synthesise the methods I used to learn to speak Chinese into a solution that other people could use, and that’s what I’ve tried to do with my courses, Plug and Play Chinese Chit Chat and Survive in Chinese. I even talked to myself in Chinese.īut I’m fully aware that a lot of people won’t have the time or the mentality or the energy that I had in ‘training my brain’ to think in and speak Chinese.
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I would try to interpret what friends said or TV or radio programmes into Chinese on the fly. So, I devised all sorts of methods to force myself to get out of my comfort zone and start thinking in Chinese as much as possible: I thought up example dialogues in my head, and practised thinking of what I would say in different situations. Our partners cannot pay us to guarantee favorable reviews of their products or services.When I was learning Chinese, it was clear that just working through the beginners’ textbooks wasn’t going to be enough I needed more practice to build up fluency.
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