In this episode, I interview Edward Greve. Edward is an American who has lived in Taiwan for the past 8 years. He initially started as an English teacher and is now doing a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics.
Listen to find out:
- What brought Edward to Taiwan in the first place
- What process he took to learn Chinese on the side
- His standard process to learn a new language
- His stance on learning characters from the very beginning
- The difference between learning simplified versus traditional characters
- Who he practiced speaking with
- His take on learning Taiwanese and other local dialects
- What he’s doing now with computational linguistics
- How learning Chinese compares to learning other languages like Italian, Dutch, French, German, Thai and Indonesian
- About the scripts used in different Chinese dialects like Taiwanese and Cantonese
- The importance of being able to express yourself through written Chinese
- The advantages of being able to speak Mandarin while living in a Chinese community
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