Coffee Break Chinese

This podcast is really easy to follow, they always teach useful phrases and vocabulary. Although there are a lot of set phrases you can learn by heart, they show you a way of actually using your limited vocabulary and grammar to build various sentenced yourself. You have enough time to repeat the phrases out loud before the dialogue resumes. As a beginner in mandarin this helped me a lot! Especially with the pronunciation Crystal is quite strict (which is absolutely necessary) and often repeats the correct tones multiple times if needed.

An absolute pleasure to listen to even if you are at a more advanced level with Mark and Crystal taking you on the Chinese language learning journey in the most friendly and welcoming manner.

It is easy to follow the conversation and lesson. Very good pronounciation which is very helpful. Each lesson has a good duration and good structured.

The pronunciation of Christal is really good for beginners to learn putonghua and that Mark is repeating the stuff of the previous lesson is helpful but the break in between is quite annoying. I listen to the podcast while driving so I cannot skip it. The episodes are around 20 min long which is a good amount. However, 3-4 minutes is only start, music and advertising. I also listen to the French version which is 10 years older and doesn’t have that much adds. Would prefer it like that again. Otherwise great job ⭐️