Ep 5: Eric: from Chinese to English, Japanese and French




Changing Scripts: Conversations about Mandarin Chinese with native speakers and learners show

Summary: Changing Scripts Podcast website & Changing Scripts YouTube Channel Eric (his English name) grew up partly outside of Shanghai, China and then in Shanghai. He is now a Software Engineer that maneuvers through his Shanghai life in a multitude of languages including Mandarin Chinese, Shanghaiese, English, Japanese and French. In this conversation we talk about:  -how he learned his 1st language-both the spoken and written form  -how learning his other languages compared to his Chinese 1st language experience -what languages he reads in and why  -how technology has changed language learning -how street signs in China include a script that is not a language at all and so much more.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This podcast is a sister project to the Changing Scripts YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClzR7HySZTVb6g-tSzAhi5A Music Info: Galaxies by Split Phase is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Split_Phase/Compendium/split_phase-38-galaxies