Geopats 10: Yifei (Chinese to English) & Phil (English to Chinese)

Geopats Podcasting

English - June 29, 2018 03:58 - 1 hour - 74.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Previous Episode: 8: Reflections: Shanghai, China then and now reflections with Shannon Martin of Two Who Travel Blog (part 2 of 2)

Next Episode: 10: Language: Mandarin Chinese and English language natives share their language stories, methods and challenges: Yifei & Phil

This is our first group chat about Simplified Mandarin Chinese. In this episode we have Yifei, a Chinese college student in Shanghai and Phil from episode 2 fame (he's British), who is a Master's student and also works in Shanghai. Some of the things covered during this conversation are:

-how they learned their 1st and 2nd languages

-higher level language learning issues such as studying uncommon vocab for the GRE exam and how to practice less common grammatical structures in every day conversations without sounding out of place

- how to keep motivated

-challenges at different levels of learning languages

-unlearning beginner ideas of languages

- culture effecting lexical (vocabulary) nuance within a language

and so much more.

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