How to Learn Anything Faster

If you’re new to our channel, we are Luke Neale and Phil Crimmins, the co-founders and co-CEOs of Mandarin Blueprint. Our company is focused on one mission: To make learning Chinese simple and rewarding. We do this by creating ground-breaking courses, services, and community for Mandarin learners like you.

How we got here:

2013:
We both started learning Chinese in Chengdu, Sichuan province (China). Phil got a degree in Chinese from Sichuan University. Luke went the self-study route.
We both struggled a lot for the first year, wasting thousands of hours and thousands of dollars getting nowhere.
2014:
We both almost quit, until we discovered the magic of ‘comprehensible input’. We used proven memory techniques to achieve advanced literacy in a few months, and began immersing in Chinese TV, movies, books, comics, and podcasts.
2015:
Within a year, we went from failures, to passing the highest level Chinese exam at the time (the HSK 6), and achieved B2 spoken fluency. We did this learning part time, while it should take a FULL TIME learner at least twice as long (that works out to at least 4x faster).
We became tired of everyone we knew falling into the same traps we did, struggling needlessly. We decided to share what we knew with the local community in Chengdu.
2016-2018:
We started Mandarin Blueprint. We spent 100s of hours teaching what we knew in live and online seminars, gradually developing our own curriculum.
2019-2024: We officially launched our online video curriculum, and continually improved and perfected the content, community, and various supplementary courses.
TODAY: Our paid membership Mandarin Blueprint Pro is taking the Mandarin-learning world by storm, making Chinese simple and rewarding for thousands of learners.

To our fellow Mandarin enthusiasts! Whether you’re learning this language to...

Connect more with a friend or family member,
Improve your career prospects,
Travel the world,
Massively raise your status as a human being
OR purely for fun, the challenge, or sheer love of the process…

…you are on a highly worthwhile mission. Chinese is NOT “hard”. It is MADE hard by methods that SUCK.

Our method does NOT suck.

If you aren’t ready yet, join the free version and master basic Chinese in 30 days or less:

(We’ll get back to you within a few hours)

保重 (take care)
Luke & Phil

[TheNongrandma.grandma]

Thank you both so much for creating mandarin Blueprint and this method. I want to thank you both so much for all the free resources that you all provide for Chinese learners. Like it just blows my mind that you won’t make so many videos in articles, free for us to use, even if we choose not to use MB. So thank you all so much!

[CourtneyAnneMcNally]

okay, this is the second time you mentioned that you drum. i’m gonna need footage, cuz you must be good to gig 5x/week!

[amben]

OK now I need a full video of that Hanzi method lool

[taiwanisacountry]

We used that method at my university, it did not stick with me, so I did flash cards, 10 words a day. That is 3650 word in a single year. And after 2 years, I 7000+ words. I used HSK vocabulary to tell me what order to learn what words in. I still hate auxiliaries because we dont have that in Danish or any other language I speak. Then grammar, so I took my new words and made sentences with them with fixed grammatical structures of the day. It helped me utilize the word for improved retention, and helped me utilize the grammar as well.

And of course a dedicated language partner.

[Jiggyjay]

Could this method be implemented to different languages such as Korean?