UPDATE: New Podcast!
RTM+ Conversations is now live!
Hello!
I have an exciting announcement to make 🎉.
It’s something we’ve been working on for a while….
…A new podcast!
The podcast is called: RTM+ Conversations.
Here’s how it works:
Published every Wednesday, RTM Conversations is a 5-minute dialogue between two native speakers of Mandarin, talking about our featured story of the week.
It gives you the opportunity to hear key vocab you’ve learned earlier that week in a conversational context, listening in to how people in China are discussing that news story.
RTM+ Conversations is designed to be used alongside the RTM+ Advanced podcast, or the RTM+ Intermediate podcast.
Here’s what you get in each episode:
1 x 5 min audio and transcript
2 x native speakers in conversation
3 x additional “must know” words and phrases
1 x recommendation of a relevant piece of native content such as a movie, speech or interview
Want to give it a try?
There are now five episodes to choose from in the growing archive.
All you need to do is join our paid membership, RTM+, to access it right now!
How can RTM+ Conversations help you?
RTM Conversations offers engaging, bitesized, real-world content which will help you:
Build confidence in listening skills
Apply what you've learned in context
Hear language in a new and engaging format
Reinforce your knowledge and understanding of the topic
Broaden your understanding of contemporary Chinese society
But the best way for me to explain how RTM+ Conversations can help you, is to let members of the RTM+ community tell you!
Here’s what they are saying:
“Excellent stuff. Really helpful and relevant. Keep it up!! 加油！！”
“Brilliant. Loved the extra vocab notes at the end. I work in higher education and we talk a lot about ‘snackable content’ to enable flexible learning but I seldom see it.”
“Great dialogue! It's very useful to find the same new vocabulary in another (lively) context, it definitely helps ‘digest’ it.”
“These are a great way to put our newly learned words into use, hope to see this podcast continue 👏”
“This is great modelling on how to discuss the week’s current topic. Thank you!”
“Dialogue format, topics & 5' duration are all great, and a valuable addition to RTM. Dialogues feel fresh & lively, and ‘engaging’, always your forte.”
“Having one male and one female voice is great. Some intonations tend to sound naturally different so being equally exposed to both is useful.”
“omg I just discovered the RTM对话！That's actually the sort of content I was wanting, haha. This is much easier for me to follow. Please keep making it!”
“It helps with listening skills, especially hearing the difference in rhythm between these dialogues and the monologues of the main podcast.”
“Finding listening materials that are this kind of length and level appropriate is one of my biggest challenges. This fits that perfectly for me.
“It is super helpful to hear conversations instead of just hearing an article read. If I had to choose, I would just read the article in advanced podcast and listen to the conversation.”
“It's my favourite part of the entire content. I'm an intermediate learner but I actually find the Conversation podcast more accessible than the Intermediate text.”
Join RTM+ and access RTM Conversations now!
RTM Conversations is one of the three podcasts included in the RTM+ membership:
You can choose one, or combine them, depending on how much time you have and what your learning needs are.
When you join RTM+ you’ll take a series of onboarding tutorials guiding you on how best to use the content so you get the most out of it based on your level, and how much time you have.
All you need to do is become a member of RTM+!
See you on the other side!
Andrew
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Ps—When you join you also get a 1:1 onboarding call with me to get you started
Pps—Our prices are going up soon so now is a good time to invest
Pps—Any questions? Just hit reply to this email and ask!