But for the moment, I did most of the talking to share my current level. He is half way through his “mission” to learn 16 of Taiwan's languages and dialects (some of which have almost no native speakers left), and his story is an interesting one that I look forward to coming back to another time to interview him. His approach is quite different to mine though, and is much more appropriate to a longer-term strategy and as such is not one I've implemented myself during this mission. On the same channel he has dozens of detailed videos that he made himself to implement his approach as he gives a free online Chinese video based course. Check out his Youtube channel to see him give some impressive lectures in an incredibly convincing Taiwanese accent, as well as videos in English and other languages, as he explains his particular approach to learning a language and discusses some interesting linguistic discoveries in foreign languages that he makes. Glossika and he agreed to bounce some questions off me to demonstrate my progress since the last video. I met up with fellow Youtube polyglot Mike, a.k.a. ?įirst thing's first: This video is my 2.5 month point in Mandarin! Subtitles included in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as English. Full disclosure: This post contains affiliate links.
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