Membership
The RTM+ membership is a multimedia resource to immerse you in the latest Chinese language trends and inspire you to practice and improve your Mandarin every week, so you can communicate with confidence.
RTM+ is for Mandarin learners who are ready to invest, commit, and dramatically improve their language skills.
By joining RTM+ you’ll unlock to loads of extra resources, content, and insights:
When you sign up you also get an invitation to a 20 minute 1+1 onboarding call with me to chat through your learning challenges and goals, and advise you on how best to utilise the huge archive and learning resources available to you.
Why you should consider joining RealTime Mandarin+ today?
When you get to a certain level of Chinese it’s crucial to learn the language in context, and with “real life” materials.
RTM+ is a unique multimedia language learning resource which will help you:
Maintain and improve your Mandarin so you can have real conversations with real people using the language they actually use (and not what you learn from textbooks).
Keep your language skills up to date and on trend so you can impress your Chinese friends with your amazing vocabulary.
Form a learning habit and learning routine which keeps you engaged weekly, and even daily, so you avoid the depressing and self-loathing world of language decline.
And, most importantly, it helps you feel confident, and able to show off your amazing Chinese language skills!
So if you are at that stage in your Mandarin learning journey, and want to commit to maintaining and further improving your Chinese, getting back up to date, and not letting your years of hard work go to waste, RTM+ is the ideal resource for you.
Who is RTM+ for?
This program is for you if you are one or more of the following:
✅ You've studied Chinese for at least 4 years
✅ You work with Chinese as part of your job or research
✅ You have HSK4 to HSK6 proficiency or a Chinese language degree
✅ You're describe yourself as an "intermediate" or "advanced" learner
✅ You've studied Chinese on-and-off for years, but haven’t improved for ages
✅ You want to improve your language but lack motivation, discipline, and routine
What’s inside RTM+?
🔈 Podcast
Every Saturday we publish a member-only podcast which expands on the content of the free newsletter, but offers much, much, more. Around 30 minutes long, it’s 85% native Mandarin. Each episode includes:
👩🎓 Intermediate Newsfeed
The Intermediate Newsfeed is published every Sunday. It’s fully immersive Chinese language experience aimed specifically at the intermediate learner. It’s a “real life” newsfeed in Chinese about the news as it’s happening.
🤿 Deep Dives
RealTime Mandarin+ Deep Dives are member-only one-hour webinars held quarterly.
Each Deep Dive addresses one key challenge of intermediate to advanced Mandarin learners. Members of the community get invites to attend the sessions live, and ask questions, and access recordings afterwards.
💬 Community
As a member of RTM+ you join an active global community of hundreds of engaged and motivated language learners. Online, the community engages through the Substack Chat. Members of the community get invites to in-person events too. Every quarter we organise Member Dinners, as well as larger meet-ups around the world.
📲Advanced intergrations
In our podcast and Intermediate Newsfeed you get all word lists formatted into downloads for your favourite langauge learning apps, including Pleco, Scritter, Anki, Hack Chinese, and Laoshi.ai
How much does RTM+ membership cost?
You can access all the RTM+ materials and resources through subscription, paid either annually or monthly:
Annually: $180/year
Monthly: $25/month
For what is around the same price as one cup of coffee a week, or a pint in a London pub, every week, it’s a no brainer!
Expensing the newsletter
Good news! RealTime Mandarin+ is highly valuable resource for your professional development if your career is related to China.
And, as a result, it’s very expensable.
Joining RealTime Mandarin+ can directly help you enhance your China skills, and accelerate your China career, so your company should be willing to support you and cover this cost.
To make the expensing process as easy as possible, we’ve created a template you can use to send an email to your manager. We’d love to welcome you aboard!
Group Subscriptions
We also offer group subscriptions to institutions and organisations whose employees, or students, have a need for engaging with China, and learning Chinese, using contemporary “real life” materials.
Get in touch if your organisation would like to subscribe to RealTime Mandarin+.
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