In this episode, I interview Davide Saccon, an Italian now living in Qingdong, China.

Listen to find out:

- How he learned "street" Chinese in Italy

- What brought him to China after that

- Why the Chinese he had learned before wasn't as useful in smaller Chinese villages

- How he used the Chinese he had learned to land his first job in China

- Why it was much harder to learn Chinese outside of China than in China

- What cultural differences he noticed between working in China versus Europe

- How compensation affects motivation with Chinese workers

- How he manages language and communication with his Chinese wife

- Why he had to change the language approach he used with his kids

- The language approach he finds works best with kids from mixed language couples

- The problem he found with the local education system for kids, and what solution they found for it