In this interview, Ron Hanson from New Zealand details the steps he took to learn Mandarin Chinese to allow him to research topics to write on for his magazine: www.whitefungus.com Listen to find out:
- What brought him to Taiwan
- How he first started learning Chinese
- Why he decided to learn Chinese characters
- Why he feels learning Chinese characters are important
- His character learning process at school
- His process for researching in Chinese
- His process for learning new vocabulary
- Why learning Chinese is like learning Shakespeare
- How he uses the Pleco Chinese dictionary app
- How he feels about having a western accent when speaking Chinese
- The benefits he gets from speaking Chinese
- What he does to progress towards Chinese fluency
- The trouble with learning Chinese handwriting
- What he wishes he’d done differently when learning Chinese
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