Why Deepseek is the biggest Mandarin learning game changer of 2025

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This week on the I'm Learning Mandarin podcast, I discuss how you can use Deepseek as a game-changing tool to become fluent in Chinese.

As we've previously covered, while tools like ChatGPT are helpful for various aspects of Mandarin learning, they often fall short when it comes to generating truly natural, colloquial speech.

This is because their training data seems to be heavily weighted towards more formal, sometimes translated sources.

Native speakers often point out that while ChatGPT's Mandarin is usually grammatically correct, it just doesn't sound like how real people talk.

That's where Deepseek, the Chinese version of ChatGPT, really excels.

Despite some of its limitations, such political censorship and data concerns, there is no doubt that it excels at generating authentic spoken Mandarin, which is exactly what we Mandarin learners need when it comes to improving our conversational skills.

So, how can you effectively use Deepseek to level up your spoken Mandarin?

Listen to the episode to find out!

I'm Learning Mandarin is a podcast that dives deep into the questions that matter to Chinese learners. Host, Mischa Wilmers, talks to the world's leading scholars and draws on his experience of self-studying the language to fluency.

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