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.

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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

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Song "I Hope You Figured It Out" on the "Mess of Me" album.