Have you ever had to create your own path to succeed at something? That is exactly what Venture Capitalist https://twitter.com/Rshuken (Ryan Shuken) did to become fluent in Mandarin Chinese. In fact, he was so successful at it that he ended up being the Lead Interpreter for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in China. This is a 2 part interview about his amazing language learning story. Come back tomorrow and the day after for the rest of Ryan's inspiring language story. ​

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We jumped into this month of NaPodPoMo without me explaining what a Geopat is. So let's take a moment to dig into this term.

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What words and phrases are to talk about podcasting in Mandarin Chinese? How are they different from English? Audio and language experienced James Thomas, Host of thehttps://120226949-447684682532113263.preview.editmysite.com/geopats/episode/update/id/fourseasonefamily.com ( Four Seas One Family Podcast )oins us for today's mini episode to answer these questions. ​

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Japanese uses 3 writing scripts but how many does English use? Lisa's 2 recent mini episodes about typing and reading Japanese in these multiple scripts got me thinking really hard about this. Guess how many scripts we use in English? Did I miss any? ​

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Have you ever written or read a language that has 3 scripts with different readings of them as well? Lisa has and was kind enough to describe how she navigates writing Japanese on mobile phones and computers. This is part 2 of a 2 part interview, because NaPodPoMo, see below for more info.

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Have you ever written or read a language that has 3 scripts with different readings of them as well? Lisa has and was kind enough to describe how she navigates writing Japanese on mobile phones and computers. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview, because NaPodPoMo, see below for more info.

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Do you learn languages better by focusing on reading first? Me too! Here is an overview of my parallel Mandarin Chinese studying while this month of mini interviews about the language is going on. ​

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Do emotions transfer over into our other languages? https://twitter.com/TanyaTck?lang=en (Tanya Crossman) returns to the Geopats Podcast to ponder/vent about the difficulties of expressing emotions and nuance in Mandarin Chinese. This episode is a collection of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tencent.mmandhl=en_US (WeChat) audio messages we left each other over the course of an evening last week.The total conversation was over an hour in audio length so I have a feeling might be back on the show later in November to keep going on this or another topic related to Mandarin Chinese.

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Does calligraphy relax you? Judging from the plethora of Chinese and Japanese ASMR videos on YouTube now, it seems like the answer is a yes for many people. It certainly does for our guest today, YouTuber Dakota of the https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx2PqqM7p1PXdKTWhtHX3Mw (Dakota Abroad), Language Learning and Dungeons and Dragons Channel. He has started a new series of Japanese ASMR videos and I just had to ask him all about it for this microepisode for NaPodPoMo. ​

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Can you help me find a popular song from 2003-2004 in Asia? I hope so because I have not been able to find this song since I left Taiwan in 2004 and need to find it before leaving Mainland China in January 2020. I need music closure.

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