Learn Chinese Insights

Watch on youtube. In this episode, we interview Lamin, who moved from Gambia to Taiwan. Listen to find out: – What brought him to Taiwan? – What prompted him to stay in Taiwan? – How he began learning Chinese – When his Chinese really started to improve – How he learned Chinese from friends – […]

Watch on youtube Interview with Fraser Stewart on how he developed his Chinese to near native level over his past 11 years in Taiwan. Listen to find out: – What made Fraser choose Taiwan? – When he first learned Chinese – His approach learning Chinese – How learning to read and write helps with speaking […]

Watch this episode on youtube In this episode, I interview Michael Gordon, a Canadian living in Taiwan. Listen to find out: – What made Michael choose Taiwan? – When he first learned Chinese – How he used Chinese in Canada – How he adapted to Chinese in Taiwan – How his Chinese level has changed […]

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In this episode, I interview Ed Gonzalez, a Mexican-Canadian restaurant owner in Taipei, Taiwan.

Listen to this episode to find out:

- What brought Eddy to Taiwan?
- About his initial journey learning Chinese
- His experience after briefly goes to Chinese school
- How he has benefitted from learning zhuyin / bo-po-mo-fo
- The benefit of being able to speak Chinese in Taiwan
- About Eddy's podcast and how that helps him learn Chinese
- How he learned slang Chinese that isn't taught in textbooks
- How he has fun with Chinese and how he uses it in public settings
- The technology he finds helpful for translating Chinese
- How he learns Chinese from reading subtitles
- What he would have done differently if he could go back and learn Chinese again

In this episode, I interview Caleb Shetland, an American now working in Taipei as a firmware engineer. Listen to find out: – His experience learning Chinese at a US college – What approach he wishes he had used instead, to learn characters – When he realized that learning Mandarin would be useful for his engineering career – […]

In this episode I interview Alex Trup, a Brit now working in Digital Marketing in Taipei, Taiwan. Listen to find out: – About his experience learning Chinese in the UK – How he went from China to Taiwan – His experience as a foreigner in a Taiwanese working environment – Why he likes Taipei compared to […]

In this episode I interview Xiao Fei, an American blogger now living in Taiwan. Listen to find out: – His experience trying to get a degree at a local Taiwanese university – Why he switched out of the Chinese program to an English one – His experience living in China – Why he finds his current […]

In this episode I interview Keoni Everington, an American now working in the media business in Taiwan. Listen to find out: – What got him interested in learning Chinese 20 years ago – What it was like learning Chinese in Ohio – How he benefited from guanxi early on – What it was like moving from […]

In this episode I interview Scott Faul, an American now living in Taiwan. Listen to find out: – What got him interested in learning Chinese, while in the US – His experience studying Chinese in Taiwan, while working on the side – How he used the Chinese he had learned, while working in the US […]