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LANGUAGE HACKING MANDARIN (Learn How to Speak Mandarin - Right Away)

A Conversation Course for Beginners

Benny Lewis author

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:John Murray Press

Published:21st Oct '21

Should be back in stock very soon

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'I really enjoy speaking right away because it makes it fun and more useful. It's pretty amazing to hear Mandarin coming out of my mouth.'
-Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'I had to learn [a new language] in a handful of days for a TV interview. I asked Benny for help and his advice was invaluable.'
-Tim Ferriss


Crack the Code and Get Fluent Faster!

What if you could skip the years of study and jump right to speaking Mandarin Chinese? Sound crazy? No, it's language hacking. It's about learning what's indispensable, skipping what's not - and using what you've learned to have real conversations in Mandarin - from day one!

Unlike most traditional language courses that try to teach you the rules of a language, Language HackingMandarin, shows you how to learn and speak Mandarin immediately through proven memory techniques, unconventional shortcuts and conversation strategies perfect by one of the world's greatest language learners, Benny Lewis, aka the Irish Polyglot.

The Method

Language Hacking takes a modern approach to language learning, blending the power of online social collaboration and the 80/20 principle of learning (Benny's ten #languagehacks show you how to achieve more with less!). It focuses on the conversations and language that learners need to master right away, rather than presenting language in the order of difficulty like most courses. This means you can start having conversations immediately.

Course Features

Each of the 10 units culminates with a speaking mission that you can choose to share on the italki Language Hacking learner community (www.italki.com/languagehacking) where you can give and get feedback and extend your learning beyond the pages of the book.

The audio for this course can be downloaded for free from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com.

You don't need to go abroad to learn a language anymore.

ISBN: 9781473674271

Dimensions: 232mm x 168mm x 12mm

Weight: 400g

240 pages