Ching Ching is another Taiwanese friend that Angela met through her Japanese language school in Kyoto. They actually first met through a double date with their husbands, since Ching Ching was in the same Japanese class as Angela's husband!

Although born and raised in Taiwan, Ching Ching has lived the past almost 13 years in Norway with her husband, and now speaks intermediate to advanced level Norwegian. On top of speaking Mandarin and Taiwanese (Hokkien), she also speaks English, and is a pretty advanced Japanese speaker as well!

We free flow chat about everything from dating/marriage culture in Taiwan vs. the West, to how our Japanese learning journeys were different as a Taiwanese vs. American-born speaker, to even the woes of needing to turn on subtitles for our own respective native language shows (Mandarin for Ching Ching and English for Angela, lol!).

In this episode, you'll learn vocab like 中氣很足 / 中气很足 / zhōng qì hěn zú ("speaking with strong projection" / "having a powerful vocal energy"), 註冊 / 注册 / zhù cè ("to register/create an account"), 歐美語系 / 欧美语系 / ōu měi yǔ xì ("Western languages, esp. European & American languages"), and more. 

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