This is a 20-minute virtual tour of the RealTime Mandarin+ membership.
We cover the three main content pillars of the membership experience you get through our website: www.realtimemandarin.com.
🔈Podcast
At 4 mins 37 secs we explain the resources included in every member podcast episode published on Saturdays:
Audio: 25 minutes of native Chinese audio each week
Curated links: 3-5 recommended news articles to pratice what you’ve learned
Integrations: Pleco, Skritter, Hack Chinese, mylingua
PDFs: Audio transcript, word list, example sentences (including pinyin)
👩🎓Intermediate Newsfeed
At 15 mins 58 secs, we dive into the fantastic Intermediate Newsfeed, which offers you “real life” Chinese news articles at an intermediate level published every Sunday, including:
Text: 350-character news article
Word list: around 20 new words each week
Audio: 3-4 minute podcast including full article and word list
Exercises: 5 grammar excercises including example sentences
Questions: 5 questions to test yourself
Integrations: Word list in Pleco, Hack Chinese, Skritter
Answers: Check you’re right with answers at the bottom
🤿Deep Dives
At 20 mins 0 secs, you’ll hear about our Deep Dives:
Frequency: Delivered quarterly
Format: 1-hour live webinars addressing one key learning challenge
Archive of 5 Deep Dives available:
Chinese Media Masterclass
Context Learning Compass
How Lu Xun can help you dramatically improve your Mandarin
Mandarin Podcast Navigator
How I write this newsletter
The Sentence Untangler (updated on 24 April)
What attendees said about the virtual tour
Don’t just take my word for it.
The virtual tours turned into a bit of a lovefest for RealTime Mandarin+!
Here are some of the comments from attendees:
“I have been a member of the podcast but it’s only today that I learnt that there’s so much more to it than just the podcast. Thanks for this mini tour. I wish I was utilising all these resources earlier.”
“Thank you for the amazing insight into RealTime Mandarin - I will definitely be subscribing to you as a new subscriber!”
“I’m going through the dreaded Intermediate Plateau at the moment and it’s great that you have bespoke content geared towards this!”
“I’m so impressed with all the innovative changes you’ve been making. It’s wonderful.”
“I think the art style of the visuals is really engaging - a world away from the textbooks I started learning with”
“The Intermediate Newsfeed is really great! Big fan here.”
“Thank you for this outstanding presentation.”
“Thank you very much for the introduction to the membership resources. It has definitely been helpful for a new member like me.”
“Thank you. This is awesome detail on the product.”
