Welcome to the first ever episode of the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast with me your host, Mischa. Each episode I will be discussing a new topic regarding how best to learn Chinese, drawing on stories and insights from my experience of learning Mandarin outside of China over the past four years.  In this episode I'm going to discuss common problems elementary and lower intermediate learners encounter when learning tones. My aim is to help learners who are grappling with tones realise the difficulties they experience are entirely normal but will get better over time. If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe, leave a review and visit imlearningmandarin.com for lots of similar content.