This summer I had the pleasure and privilege of learning and refreshing my Mandarin Chinese at Jiaotong University. It was a lovely, hot and humid summer spent under trees on a Western-styled college campus in the heart of Shanghai's Former French concession.
Podcaster Stephanie Fuccio and I met the day before courses started to talk about language-learning, culture, and connection in China and beyond.
Listen to the first part of this 2-episode series HERE.
Episode description below:
July 16, 2018
Liv is in an interesting language experience right now. She grew in New York City using Cantonese with her Southern Chinese mother and some Mandarin Chinese with her Taiwanese father. She then picked up Spanish and English in her diverse NYC environment. She has traveled extensively and has learned a few more languages along the way. But it is now, while living and working in Shanghai, China, that she is faced with a myriad of language AND cultural obstacles that she feels the most challenged by.
Liv started an intensive Mandarin Chinese summer course the day after this interview in order to face these challenges head on. We have the pleasure of talking to her before and after this course.
