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This is anotber recorded Mandarin lesson of mine. In this one, the first half is all conversation and in the 2nd half I read the text below. I have outlines a bunch of the new vocab from the text too.

Enjoy!

Text I Read:

杭州男子租集装箱改装成公寓

在杭州，有一个住在集装箱里的男子在网上走红了。他叫阮晨海，家住浙江台州，在杭州工作。

早晨

   因为在杭州买房子太贵了，阮晨海又想把更多的钱放在工作上，所以他就在网上租了一个集装箱，每个月的租金是1200元。这个集装箱很特别，里面有一个小床，还有洗手间，看上去更像是一个小公寓。除了不能做饭，其他东西应有尽有。阮晨海说，过去他一个月在酒店住20天，要花6000元，和现在相比，节约了近5000元。

   这个集装箱不但是阮晨海的“家”，也是他工作的地方。他的孩子也认为，爸爸的这个房子很“酷”

Vocab:

杭州 - Hángzhōu - Hangzhou (capital of Zhejiang Province) 

租 - zū - to hire / to rent 

集装箱 - jízhuāngxiāng - container (for shipping) 

改装 - gǎizhuāng - to remodel / to refit / to modify / to convert 

公寓 - gōngyù - apartment 

网上 - wǎngshàng - online   上网 

走红 - zǒuhóng - to be popular / to be in luck / to go viral 

浙江 - Zhèjiāng - Zhejiang (Province) 

台州 - Tāizhōu - Taizhou (city in Zhejiang Province) 

房子 - fángzi - house 

租金 - zūjīn - rent 

特别 - tèbié - especially / special / particular / unusual 

床 - c

This is a call-in from a listener on my Anchor station. She talked about her 5 year old child who has a huge passion for languages. It is a fascinating little story!! Enjoy :)

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I was working on a YouTube collaboration with someone named Justin today who has a YouTube channel teaching English to Russians. I thought it would be fun to take a few minutes to record a short podcast episode where I learn some of the basics of the language. Enjoy!

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I had my friend teach me some Arabic while we drove to a restaurant. Enjoy! This was a super fun episode :)

This is a clip from my Mandarin lesson a few days ago. In this lesson, I am reading a short story out loud to my teacher that I wrote in Mandarin. From there, my teacher and I send some time going through all the corrections. Below I have included the original text that I wrote and the corrected version. When I wrote this text, I was trying to incorporate as many words that I recently learned. Hope you like this podcast!

Original:

很多年以前有一个人叫大卫。他最喜欢的爱好是打雪仗和堆雪人。有一天大卫决定了堆了一个非常大的雪人，原来他过了所有的周末堆。不巧，发生了一个问题：星期一温度提高了，所以他的雪人融化了。太糟糕了！大卫不仅难过而且生气。之所以他感觉这样，是因为融化以前没有时间给妈妈爸爸看他堆的雪人。可是，不管融化了，大卫还是告诉妈妈爸爸他的故事。妈妈爸爸说：大卫，你应该确定天气呀！

Corrected: 

很多年以前有一个人叫大卫。他有很多爱好，但他最喜欢的是打雪仗和堆雪人。有一天大卫堆了一个非常大的雪人，他和雪人过了一个愉快的周末。但不巧，发生了一个问题：星期一温度升高了，所以他的雪人融化了。太糟糕了！大卫不仅难过而且很生气。之所以他感觉这样， 是因为他没来得及给妈妈爸爸看他堆的雪人。可是, 大卫还是把这件事情告诉了妈妈爸爸 。妈妈爸爸说：大卫，堆雪人前你应该确定一下天气呀!

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This was an interesting podcast. I was at a pub with a few friends and I drove one of my buddies home. It was about a four-minute drive and I decided to do an impromptu podcast episode with my friend. I gave him the phone, we hit the record button, and we started talking about different languages. My friend is from the Philippines and we talked about what it's like to lose your first language. My friend moved to Canada when he was quite young and no longer speaks his first language. This driving podcast was a ton of fun and I think you a lot of you are going to like it.

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This is a clip from a business meeting that I had. Often my content is focused on language learning, but another significant part of my life is the business side of things. As many of you know, I am self-employed and all of my income comes from teaching languages as well as other miscellaneous activities related to language learning. I'm very excited to be able to share this short clip from my meeting because I don't normally show the business side of me or talk about it on my social media platforms.

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