Ace Talks Language

In this episode I share a recording of an oral examination I completed with a friend for my “Chinese 7” subject at Melbourne University. I completed this oral in May 2022 at the end of my 5th semester of Chinese study at university (so after 2 and ½ years). I think it’s valuable to document and share our progress. We create content about the languages we’re learning but we don’t necessarily share the direct language learning process as much as we should.

This episode is almost entirely in Chinese.

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In this episode I interview the Lingoholics, Markus, Ian and Cody. The Lingoholics are a group of language enthusiasts with their own language learning podcast. They are based out of Canada and united by their passion for learning languages. Today we get to know the history behind the Lingoholics: how they met each other and how they created their group and podcast. Naturally we discuss their fun language learning projects and challenges they do together. We also covered a range of topics from reflections on the best way to study vocabulary, the breadth vs depth approach to learning languages (the advantages of dabbling in many languages and of intensive study of one or two languages respectively). Right at the end of the episode we do a rapid fire activity of switching between speaking French, Spanish and Chinese which was a lot of fun!

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This episode is a conversation with my friend Danai about her experience moving from London to Hong Kong. It’s the first episode of what we plan to be a 3-part series documenting her experience moving to, living in and working in a new city with a new language and culture!

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In this episode I chat with Mark from Language Come Up, originally from the United States but now based in Mexico where he has been living for several years. We talk about his experiences learning Spanish and Russian, living in Mexico and his philosophy and wisdom about language learning.

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In this episode I chat with Sylvia, another friend I've made in the online language learning community from the United States who studies Bengali, Arabic, German and other languages and is currently living in Morocco on a gap year! 

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Sylvia's IG (@thecuriouslinguist): https://www.instagram.com/thecuriouslinguist/ 

Sylvia's website/blog (including Bengali grammar posts): https://thecuriouslinguist.wordpress.com/

Sylvia's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/banglablog

Sylvia's Bengali language resources project: https://www.banglablog.org/

Sylvia's Levantine Arabic resource post:  https://www.instagram.com/p/B_TT5lDH6E2/

Short videos in Arabic with bilingual captions which you can filter for difficulty and dialect:  https://playaling.com/

You can also follow me on any social media (instagram, twitter, facebook, tiktok, youtube) using the handle @officialacebuck or as 'Ace Buck'.

I recently realised that I can live experiences as if I were in China without even leaving my home city. This is not something I've ever been able to do before in the same way with languages I've previously learned. I think a great way to become a part of the Chinese sub-community here in Melbourne is to find casual employment in a Chinese area. I've applied to a few places, we'll see if it leads anywhere!

The idea behind this episode is that language learning can be about so much more than studying at your desk, it can be about living your life THROUGH and IN other languages.

You can find the full English transcript of the episode here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FkQ37TeJJ8cUDQOS-1ML6tDxkraapk6K_tE1FDoQH14/edit?usp=sharing

You can find me on all major social media platforms using the handle @officalacebuck and as Ace Buck on YouTube.

I had the idea to record this episode after having chatted with two friends about our experiences on exchange in France. It's not the most relevant of episodes right now as we're dealing with the coronavirus but I hope that one day it may become relevant again.

In this episode you'll find three big pieces of advice for going on a linguistic/language exchange abroad that I would have liked to have heard before my first exchange experience.  

You can find the full English transcript of the episode here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_Go_BtfYcZSCBzYC3x-JwIxXTiD-qzBpNDDqAMot2c/edit?usp=sharing

You can find me on all major social media platforms using the handle @officalacebuck and as Ace Buck on YouTube.

In this introductory episode I, Ace, welcome you to my podcast about language, language learning and linguistics!

You can find the transcript of this episode here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QHY1wkCSeKurUMcpczaPlTlTVXXv6aWMwS9VulcwtH4/edit?usp=sharing