Ep 4: Yifei (from Chinese) & Phil (to Chinese)




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

Summary: Changing Scripts Podcast website & Changing Scripts YouTube Channel  This is our first group chat about Simplified Mandarin Chinese. In this episode we have Yifei, a Chinese college student in Shanghai and Phil from episode 2 fame (he's British), who is a Master's student and also works in Shanghai. Some of the things covered during this conversation are: -how they learned their 1st and 2nd languages  -higher level language learning issues such as studying uncommon vocab for the GRE exam and how to practice less common grammatical structures in every day conversations without sounding out of place - how to keep motivated -challenges at different levels of learning languages -unlearning beginner ideas of languages - culture effecting lexical (vocabulary) nuance within a language and so much more.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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