Changing Scripts

My next Mandarin Chinese language test, HSK 3, is December 2, 2018. Join me while I share the things I am doing to get ready for this test, deal with the self pressure of being a very slow and frustrated language learner and some interesting tidbits about the Mandarin Chinese language and China too.  Where to find the Changing Scripts Podcast: Changing Scripts Podcast website & Changing Scripts YouTube Channel Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS Join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Changing Scripts Podcast Amazon Affiliate Link and Traveling Mailbox Affiliate Link In this episode: -Language learning news Polyglot Conference : October 26-28, 2018 in Ljubjana, Slovenia. Follow the conference on Twitter or YouTube. Many sessions are posted on YouTube after so check the event out. - Quantifiable study tasks & motivation ranking  - Mandarin Chinese audio example: HSK 3, chapter 12, number 2 & La Bamba song - Interviews & Interview Questions: I interviewed Tanya Crossman , author of Misunderstood, a book on TCKs (third culture kids) on her experience with Mandarin Chinese. Her episode will come out in season 3, in Spring 2019. Tanya added this question to the interview question list: ***How did you learn emotional language (communicate your feelings)?*** IF you have a question you’d like me to ask our guests, let me know.   - Language learning/language community: Vocab post on Instagram : 关 and 关于 : Tanya kindly helped out with this advice: On the Virtual Expat Podcast, at about 1 hour and 5 minutes into the episode, Mai from the Intellect Grime YouTube channel and I were complaining about certain language websites (her: sites in Arabic and me: sites in Mandarin Chinese.) Kai-Fu Lee explains why Mandarin Chinese websites are formatted the way they are in AI Superpower , a book about technology in China that I can not recommend highly enough.   Jeremy Tiang’s “A Star is Born” poster language analysis language tweet) Translator Rebecka Eriksson’s tweet about an interview with Sheng Keyi, the author of Northern Girls Would love to know what you think about this episode! Socials:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "I Hope You Figured It Out" on the "Mess of Me" album.

Where to find the Changing Scripts Podcast: Changing Scripts Podcast website & Changing Scripts YouTube Channel Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS Join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Virtual Expats Amazon Affiliate Link and Traveling Mailbox Affiliate Link In this episode: Apologies, my new mic stand is being exchanged SO I was naively holding my beautiful microphone in my hand for this episode. The weird sounds that ensued will not happen again. Terribly sorry. My new review flashcard holder with pockets --------------------------------------------------- Music courtesty of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "I Hope You Figured It Out" on the "Mess of Me" album. All projects:https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/

My next HSK test, HSK 3, is December 2, 2018. Join me while I share the things I am doing to get ready for this test, deal with the self pressure of being a very slow and frustrated language learner and some interesting tidbits about Chinese and China too. Where to find the Changing Scripts Podcast: Changing Scripts Podcast website & Changing Scripts YouTube Channel Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, RSS Join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Virtual Expats Amazon Affiliate Link and Traveling Mailbox Affiliate Link In this episode: Instagram study photos: new flashcard to review flashcard number tracker (the circled numbers are the ones moving out of the new flashcard pile meaning notes on HSK listening transcripts Barry Manilow song "One Voice": https://genius.com/Barry-manilow-one-voice-lyrics Young China Watchers http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/ China in Africa Podcast https://chinaafrica-podcast.com/ --------------------------------------------------- Music courtesy of Damon Castillo, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ Song "I Hope You Figured It Out" on the "Mess of Me" album. ----------------------------------------------- Check out all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/

     Support Me on Ko-fi 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. The after conversation will be in the Fall season.  Liv's website: http://www.thatlivlife.com   You can follow all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: My microphones, Samson Q2U Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/supportaffiliates.html

     Support Me on Ko-fi Eric (his English name) grew up partly outside of Shanghai, China and then in Shanghai. He is now a Software Engineer that maneuvers through his Shanghai life in a multitude of languages including Mandarin Chinese, Shanghaiese, English, Japanese and French. In this conversation we talk about:  -how he learned his 1st language-both the spoken and written form  -how learning his other languages compared to his Chinese 1st language experience -what languages he reads in and why  -how technology has changed language learning -how street signs in China include a script that is not a language at all and so much more.  You can follow all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: My microphones, Samson Q2U Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/supportaffiliates.html

    Support Me on Ko-fi 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.  You can follow all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: My microphones, Samson Q2U Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/supportaffiliates.html

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  Support Me on Ko-fi   This is a recommendation episode, where I tell you more about episodes from my other podcasts that came out this week AND some flashbacks to other episodes from the other three podcasts in my four podcast world. This episode is the exact same on all of the podcasts it is on this week, so if you are crazy enough to listen to more than one of my pods, you only need to listen to one of these.  A few money announcements first. I am starting a Beginning Expat Podcasters Online Two Hour Workshop this Fall. Email me to get more information, stephfuccio(gmail.com) . I am also selling my voice! No, really, If you or anyone you know needs a voiceover talent, please contact me at https://www.voices.com/actors/stephfuccio.  I am NOT charging for promo spots in the three interview podcasts: Virtual, Scripts and Bookish but am offering them for FREE (inspiration: Odd Dad Out Podcast, thanks Adam) to Content Creators that I like AND that fit into that particular episode’s content. Enough about money, let’s get to the audio goodness.   This week we have a new episode of Creatively Complicated Podcast with my Co-Host, Writer Summer Rylander. In this podcast we dive into the messiness of our own creative process. In this episode, we focus on doing more and doing less, essentially realizing that we need to change creative productivity places. Does tasking out your creative process help you do more and improve your craft?  Going back to previous episodes of Changing Scripts, I want to highlight another Writer, Jeremy Tiang. Jeremy was kind enough to sit down with me when he was visiting Shanghai last year. To clarify, Jeremy is a  Writer, Translator and Playright; words are what Jeremy Tiang uses to share his ideas about the world and all of its ambiguity. In his prose he addresses issues of identity, culture, and the boundaries of what we think these things mean. His upbringing in Singapore was multicultural and yet it was not. We primarily explore Jeremy’s language experiences from early childhood to the present day. But those cultural tones are impossible to remove from language, so we did not even try. Another flashback episode I’d like to highlight is on the Virtual Expats Podcast. A former student of mine from Hanoi, Vietnam and an Artist now living in my birthplace, New York City, Anh Ta, in episode 66. We explore how her geographic movement from Vietnam to the U.S. has affected her online experience. Anh is an Artist with a strong online presence that she carefully curated for both professional and personal usage.  By the way, if all this talk about podcasts is inspiring you to make your own, you can get a free month of Podbean hosting service by using this promo code: https://www.podbean.com/virtualexpats Bookish Expats podcast has a brand new episode starting off Season 4 next Friday. Nicole Palazzo from the Expat Cast Podcast will be with us to talk about how a certain book about Germany helped her understand her new host culture.  All of our podcasts will be back to normal in August with Virtual and Creatively Complicated will have two episodes and Changing Scripts will have 1, a full schedule for the next month will be in the show notes and available at https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Upcoming episodes:  All episodes are published Fridays @ 12pm Panda time (China time), which is where I am currently living (If you are in North America, that’s late Thursday evening): -July 19, 2019: Creatively Complicated  -July 26, 2019: Bookish Expats: Nicole Palazzo, Expat Cast Podcast -August 2, 2019: Virtual Expats: Danny Salay, Travel Man Dan on YouTube AND  Creatively Complicated  -August 9, 2019: Changing Scripts: Thom Clairmont, ThomReads on Instagram -August 16, 2019: Virtual Expats:Ting AND Creatively Complicated You can follow all of our projects here:https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube &Speakpipe (leave a voice message) This episode was created with: Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, http://bit.ly/2HMCjY Microphone, Samson Q2U Mixer: Focusrite Scarlette 2i2 USB Audio Interface  Leveler: Auphonic, free online leveling software

   Support Me on Ko-fi    THE NEXT Changing Scripts podcast episode will be published at 12pm Friday, August 9th China time. (Which is 4pm Fri in Auckland, 9am Fri in Delhi, 6am Fri Cairo, 1am Fri in Rio de Janeiro, and 11pm Thur in San Francisco. For more locations, use this handy website: https://www.timeanddate.com/)  Thom of ThomReads Instagram account will be our guest in that episode. I am going to add recommendation episodes weekly when there isn’t a new episode on Scripts. I will label them as "recommendations" so feel free to skip them if you are only interested in the Changing Scripts interviews.  In this recommendation episode, I want to give you some podcast episodes to listen to while Changing Scripts is on hiatus.  Links:  -Isolation box that I used for recording this episode:  https://www.instagram.com/p/BzwoxatnxKY/utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet -Changing Scripts Podcast: Ep 2: Phil, From English to Chinese: http://bit.ly/2Y1szDo -Virtual Expats Podcast: Ep 61: Jo of the Life in Breaths Project: http://bit.ly/2xINc8v -Bookish Expats Podcast:Shannon Two Who Travel (blog): 2012 (two part interview episode) Ep 5A: http://bit.ly/2xINc8v and  Ep 5B: http://bit.ly/30EaDwn -Creatively Complicated: Summer and I talk about Boxing in Creativity: http://bit.ly/2YQKKZq You can follow all of our projects here:https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube &Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS ,Android devices, or the Changing Scripts  YouTube Channel. Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Will Remain" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, http://bit.ly/2HMCjY My microphone, Samson Q2U Auphonic, free online leveling software Isolation box that I used for recording this episode:  https://www.instagram.com/p/BzwoxatnxKY/?tm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

  THE NEXT Changing Scripts podcast episode will be published at 12pm Friday, August 9th China time. (Which is 4pm Fri in Auckland, 9am Fri in Delhi, 6am Fri Cairo, 1am Fri in Rio de Janeiro, and 11pm Thur in San Francisco. For more locations, use this handy website: https://www.timeanddate.com/)  Thom of ThomReads Instagram account will be our guest in that episode.  Going forward, I am going to add announcement episodes here every time there is a new podcast episode for any of my projects. I will label them as announcements so feel free to skip them if you are only interested in the Changing Scripts interviews.  LINKS: -Brendan Davis’s Virtual Expats Podcast episode: https://virtualexpats.podbean.com/e/ep769-brendan-davis-crazy-in-the-best-ways-on-and-offline/ -Damon Castillo, the music in this episode is “Saint Cecilia” off his band’s “Mess of Me” album, https://www.damoncastillo.com/ -Two podcasts that I produced this week are: Creatively Complicated, https://creativelycomplicated.libsyn.com/website/ep-5-boxing-in-creativity Bookish Expats, https://bookishexpats.podbean.com/ You can follow all of our projects here:https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube &Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS ,Android devices, or the Changing Scripts  YouTube Channel. This episode was created with: My microphone, Samson Q2U Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, http://bit.ly/2HMCjY

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      Support Me on Ko-fi Heather from Sunshine and Summit podcast is gearing up for her twice a year Sunshine Summit for August 2019, where she interviews Podcasters and other Content Creators about their projects to celebrate connections. I was delighted to be a guest on the Summit earlier this year (link below to the YouTube video) and will definitely be watching and talking to other viewers in the chatroom during many of the events. This is such a delightful event where we get to see Podcasters and hear their podstories. Thank you Heather for creating such an amazing event! Sunshine Summit website: https://www.sunshinesummit.live/ Interview with Heather about the Summit: https://sunshineandpowercuts.podbean.com , "Connections: Sunshine, PowerCuts, Summits" My Sunshine Summit spot from earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-xE_M7P8EM  

  Support Me on Ko-fi   In this episode, we chat with Angela, a Canadian who went to China for the first time in 2006, which is where she met her husband. She left China and returned, as so many expats do. Lucky for me, she came back to China in 2010 and worked at the same school teaching Academic English to students who were about to study abroad. Angela’s relationship to languages and language learning is the complete opposite to mine: before learning Mandarin Chinese she fluently learned French, Spanish and Finnish, with a strong emphasis on speaking the language. She is now a teacher in Canada and is able to help International students from China and other countries, adapt to their new learning and academic life in a small study group environment as well. A sound note: Angela’s adorable baby boy joined us for some of this conversation. I have edited out the vast majority of the sounds that overpowered our voices but there are a few soft baby noises left. If you are someone who will be annoyed by such sounds, please feel free to listen to the first 30 minutes of the podcast (before Morgan joined us) and then return next month for another episode of Changing Scripts. Thank you. If you have any comments or questions about this episode, please feel free to connect with me on any social media platform, “stephfuccio" THE NEXT Changing Scripts PodTube will be published on Tue, July 9th.  Podcast break: Thom Reads, Chinese language learner and future guest of Changing Scripts. His Instagram account is https://instagram.com/thomreads?igshid=ccd4p77jwzojhttps://instagram.com/thomreads?igshid=ccd4p77jwzoj SHOW LINKS: -My video of the chinese writing tracing app video; http://bit.ly/30vH8xv -ChinesePod, https://chinesepod.com/ - granny cloud video Angela talked about:  https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize/prize-winning-wishes/school-in-the-cloudhttps://www.ted.com/participate/ted-prize/prize-winning-wishes/school-in-the-cloud You can follow all of our projects here:https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube &Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS ,Android devices, or the Changing Scripts  YouTube Channel. Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: My microphone, Samson Q2U Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, http://bit.ly/2HMCjY

     Support Me on Ko-fi Nine Years Ago Joshua Ogden-Davis left graduate school in Texas, moved to China and taught himself Chinese. He is now a Mandarin Chinese Translator, does audio and video production in multiple languages, and is a Puppeteer. In this Changing Scripts podcast episode we dig into Josh’s fuller language story, including this switch from English to Mandarin Chinese as well as his experiences with Spanish, German and English from his beforetime. We learn that although Josh was good at and liked learning aspects of grammatical knowledge growing up, it was not until he was able to simultaneously learn and immediately use Mandarin Chinese that he understood the importance of motivation, activation and fluency over accuracy. Josh shares his hilarious Chinese language experiences from taxi rides where he was asked some pretty intimate details about his genitalia AND his own appearance on a local Chinese dating show. He admits that he spends his time in the space in between English and Chinese languages and ponders if that could be called a “third culture language (TCL)”. I say hell yea, let’s do this Josh’s Info: His video channel (Chinese language): https://v.qq.com/x/cover/fdfbpzs9q6ymtz7/z0521iq71kx.html His Co-Authored Book: 与老外交朋友, Don’t Be Shy,Just Say Hi! (Chinese language) https://read.douban.com/ebook/34493671/ THE NEXT Changing Scripts PodTube will be published on Tue, June 11th. SPECIAL OFFERS: Valid May 2019: Language Card Games, coupon code: Changing Scripts No expiration date: Podbean.com, Fantastic podcast hosting site: 1 month free, https://www.podbean.com/changingscripts SHOW LINKS: -Stroke order video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD7Lc4QBh5w -Pleco dictionary app: http://bit.ly/30vH8xv -My video of the chinese writing tracing app video; http://bit.ly/30vH8xv -Josh’s appearance on a Chinese dating show: http://bit.ly/2VQocut -Manchurian alphabet, https://www.omniglot.com/writing/manchu.htm -Leitner box, Leitner System info: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Leitner_system -The History of English in 10 Minutes video: http://bit.ly/2YFB3N1 -Papi Jiang: Article in English explaining this: http://bit.ly/2YyYA26 & Her specific video that Josh was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyI_E4Ez0hA -My HSK 3 post test video feedback : http://bit.ly/30A2Pw8 -Hannah Lund’s Expat Rewind episode: http://bit.ly/2wdFQJi You can follow all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: My microphones, Samson Q2U Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, http://bit.ly/2HMCjY6 Focusrite 2i2, a 2 microphone mixer, https://amzn.to/2ZqbuRu

     Support Me on Ko-fi In this Changing Scripts podcast episode we chat with Lotta, a Finnish college student who lived in Shanghai, China between High School and University. During part of that time she took intensive Chinese language courses. Lotta has continued with her Chinese language learning even after returning to Finland by using TV shows and other media until she can take more language classes at her university. In this chat, Lotta shares with us her intensive Mandarin Chinese classroom experience in Shanghai, how she used the language outside of the classroom and how Mandarin Chinese compares to the handful of other languages she has learned and used in her life thus far. Lotta’s mother, Pia, was a guest on the Expat Rewind Podcast last year, where shared her first impressions of Shanghai via a blog post she wrote after moving here from Finland. Hi Pia! This podcast is part of the Changing Scripts podtube experience: which is part podcast, part YouTube channel. The YouTube channel is where I share my own slow but steady language learning experience: challenges, questions, frustrations and all. Lotta’s socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com LINKS: Meteor Garden (TV show): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Garden_(2018_TV_series) Slow Chinese: https://www.slow-chinese.com/ Bear Talk: https://www.beartalking.com/podcast Chinese tech podcast 25:15 A special offer from Matthew Boyle at Language Card Games, https://languagecardgames.com THE NEXT Changing Scripts PodTube will be published on Tue, May 21st. You can follow all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: My microphones, Samson Q2U Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/supportaffiliates.html

     Support Me on Ko-fi In the Changing Scripts podcast episode, we talk to Taylor, an American Marketing Professional who grew up with a strong language learning curiosity. Mandarin Chinese was one of her first language loves and one that she has kept in contact with. I am using people analogies  because Taylor used them in the interview and it is simply a brilliant way to see the time, energy and commitment that it takes not only to learn a language but to maintain it over the years as well. We also talked about her other language encounters, food that came with the languages she learned, her favorite language learning YouTube channels and so much language geeky more. Taylor was one of the first people I met on Twitter in the very supportive #Chinese language learning world and I am forever grateful for her encouragement. Thanks Taylor!   In accompanying Changing Scripts YouTUBE video I dive deeper into two aspects of Taylor’s interview: 1. Her languages as family member analogy and how it relates to my own language learning 2. Her desire to learn Ancient Chinese Literature and my own desire to learn slangish modern Mandarin Chinese so I can read social media posts online. I love how different and personal language learning can be and how people with such different goals can still learn from each other in the process. Podcast LINKS: -National Geographics Magazine -Narcos Netflix show -Stealing Freedom book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OERNM4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 -KemushiChan ロレッタ(YouTube) -Records of the Grand Historian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_the_Grand_Historian -Collocation and colligation, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/colligation And lexical bundles, http://sdhanel.com/corpuslinguitics/lexicalbundles.html -Academic who did the Chinese collocations study and presetntation at Iowa, FIND http://blclab.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/JNL10.pdf -Viki https://www.google.com/search?q=viki+rakuten&oq=viki+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.3982j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 -Amanda Tastes (NOT Amanda Eats), https://www.youtube.com/user/amandaslittlekitchen -Mongolian language script, http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mongolian.htm -Rice dish persian; https://www.unicornsinthekitchen.com/persian-savory-saffron-cake-tahchin/ -Sunflower Splendor https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Splendor-Thousand-Chinese-Midland/dp/0253206073 -Zhihu: (like Quora but in Chinese) https://www.zhihu.com/signup?next=%2F -Chairman’s Bao Chinese reader site: https://www.thechairmansbao.com/ -Yu Hua: Author, “To Live”  and “Brothers” (two novels Taylor recommends) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334971.To_Live -San Mao; author who wrote many travel oriented novels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao_(author) -Mo Yan (Author, Taylor recommends NOT to read it until years after learning about the language and culture due to the cultural and linguistic density of his books. ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Yan -HSK 3 test Changing Scripts YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luOMPrZZJw&t=3s -Coursera HSK courses, https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=hsk THE NEXT Changing Scripts PodTube will be published on Tue, May 8th. You can follow all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn,YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: My microphones, Samson Q2U Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/supportaffiliates.html

     Support Me on Ko-fi In the Podcast episode, we talked to Tanya Crossman, author of Misunderstood The Impact of Growing Up Overseas in the 21st Century  about her experiences learning and using Mandarin Chinese since she was a teenager. Tanya has a deep connection both to Chinese culture and language but her language story does not stop there. It also includes the languages and dialects she was exposed to growing up in different countries, studying 12 languages thus far, dreaming in “the language that is contextually appropriate” and her love of learning language scripts. Tanya’s insights into the cultural aspects of Mandarin Chinese are as clear as can be, even for someone not familiar with Mandarin Chinese at all. A special thank you to Mo Sibyl from the More Sibyl Podcast. It was her episode with Tanya that got us connected. If you’d like to know more about Tanya’s Third Culture Kid history or research, this is a great episode to listen to. In the accompanying YouTUBE video,https://youtu.be/cvpOaGwxFMk, I dive deeper into two aspects of Tanya’s interview: 1. At the end of every interview I ask the guest what question I should ask future Changing Scripts guests. Tanya added this question: “How did you learn the emotional part of a language?” In this YouTube video, I reach back into my language teaching experience to remember if I helped my students to do this at all.   2. Out of Tanya’s 12 languages there are a number of different scripts that she has learned. I am in awe with this because I am still struggling to read AND understand my first new script, the hanzi characters of Mandarin Chinese. Learning this new script has made me really understand the difference between reading a word or phrase and understanding what it means.  This video was filmed while I was walking around Minhang Cultural Park in a Korean neighborhood in Shanghai, China. THE NEXT Changing Scripts PodTube will be published on Tue, April 27th. You can follow all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Tanya’s Chinese language and culture blog: https://storiesfromtanya.com/life-in-china/chinese-language-and-culture/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn,YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This interview was created with: Steph’s mic is a Samson Q2U, we chatted remotely with Zoom remote video software, the podcast was edited with Audacity, a free, open source audio software, and the podcast sound was leveled (evened out) with Auphonic, a free AI leveling software.

     Support Me on Ko-fi In this episode we continue our conversation from episode 8 with Eric Olander about his 33 year Mandarin Chinese language learning experience. Eric is a Journalist, Blogger, Media Executive, and Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the China Africa Project which includes the China in Africa Podcast, which he co-hosts weekly with Cobus Van Staden. Last time we chatted with Eric in episode 8 he shared his controversial learning methods but this time we dig into more of the cultural side of the Mandarin Chinese. We learn about how learning about how the time indicator 了 (le) can be thought of as a time bridge, how he knew he achieved a certain level of language learning competency when he got yelled at in Chinese and so much more. The newest Changing Scripts YouTube video, part of this podtube experience, is available here: https://youtu.be/vu5F99JJCg4 SHOW NOTES: -Chengyu, 3 Chinese character sayings -”rubber time” https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rubber-time -”Misunderstood” by Tanya Crossman -Dolce and Gabbana & recent events in China You can follow all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/ Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram,LinkedIn,YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album This episode was created with: My microphones, Samson Q2U Remote video software, Zoom Auphonic, free online leveling software Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free, https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/supportaffiliates.html

Just a quick announcement about Changing Scripts Podcast, YouTube channel and how they connect. Changing Scripts has been converted into a PodTube. What's a ​PodTube? ​It's a project that has a podcast and a YouTube channel with a common theme. PODcast + YouTUBE = PodTube. What this means: -The interviews will be on the Podcast ONLY -My learning Mandarin Chinese updates and other projects will be on the YouTube channel ONLY And never the two shall meet. I would appreciate it if you would take this quick 2 minute Listener Survey. Tentative 2019 Schedule: January, February, March -Biweekly learning updates on the Changing Scripts YouTube channel April & May -Two months of interviews on the Changing Scripts Podcast. Expect at least 4-5 interviews during each month. June to December -Repeat the above schedule Would love to know what you think about this episode! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube & Speakpipe (leave a voice message) Subscribe to Changing Scripts Podcast on : iOS , Android devices, Changing Scripts YouTube Channel,  RSS, or join our email list: for weekly podcasting updates Support the podcast: Changing Scripts Podcast Amazon Affiliate Link and Traveling Mailbox Affiliate Link Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,"I Hope You Figured It Out" song on the "Mess of Me" album Check out all of our projects here: https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/