Interview with Adam Bell, an American, on his journey to Mandarin Chinese fluency in Taiwan.
Listen to hear:
- What brought him to Taiwan
- His experiences studying Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan
- How he created an immersion culture for himself in Taiwan
- How he transitioned from studying Chinese to working full-time in a Taiwanese company
- His approach to learning technical vocabulary for his job
- The benefits of immersion and using Mandarin in daily life
- What he would do differently if he had to learn Chinese from scratch
- Adam’s involvement in stand-up comedy in Mandarin
- Raising a bilingual child in a mixed-language household
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