Geopats: Expat life explored in niches (Steph Fuccio, Coffeelike Media)
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| 21 Oct 2018 | Language: Using Reading As A Gateway Into Mandarin Chinese with British Expat in China, Ian | 01:43:06 | |
The first time I met Ian we were walking around Shanghai for a work event, talking about the challenges of learning Mandarin Chinese. When he casually described the Mandarin Chinese script (cursive) book he had to special order, my mouth dropped and I made a mental note to ask him to be on the podcast later. Thankfully he agreed to do this. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 23 Oct 2018 | Online: Book & Philosophy YouTuber Mai Of the Intellect Grime Channel On Her Content Creation & Online Habits in Egypt & the UK | 01:33:04 | |
Mai, Creator of the Intellect Grime YouTube Channel, is an Egyptian YouTuber who produces content about Philosophy, languages and books. She learned about blogs from YouTube, has been on and off Facebook for years and uses an app to track her mobile phone usage. In short, she is an inspiring example of how we can take agency of our online selves. In this episode we talk about her virtual chronology as she grew up in Egypt and as she moved to the UK for university. Did her move IRL effect her actions VRL? What is VRL? Have a listen to find out all of this and more. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 17 Nov 2019 | From Struggling With Languages to Becoming The Lead Interpreter of the Beijing Olympics: Ryan Shuken | 00:48:02 | |
Have you ever had to create your own path to succeed at something? That is exactly what Venture Capitalist https://twitter.com/Rshuken (Ryan Shuken) did to become fluent in Mandarin Chinese. In fact, he was so successful at it that he ended up being the Lead Interpreter for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in China. This is a 2 part interview about his amazing language learning story. Come back tomorrow and the day after for the rest of Ryan's inspiring language story. This recording originally appeared on the Geopats NaPodPoMo podcast in 3 separate episodes: https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo/14, https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo/15https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo/16 and has been compiled and added to Geopats Language for your language geekery listening pleasure. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 21 Dec 2020 | Online: Patience and Balance Online: Geopats Online Return Guest,Jo of Life in Breaths | 02:06:03 | |
Our first guest on Geopats Online (then called Virtual Expats) in September 2018 was Joanna Czutkowna, Founder of Life in Breaths & I went shopping today. When we first met back then she was very passionate about sustainability within the fashion industry and also about redefining how we view age, beauty and the ability in how we design. Even though we have both moved from China to other places, it's been a joy to watch her projects grow and inspire people online. In today's episode you get to hear from Jo again but recently. She took the time to relisten to our 2 hour and 4 minute episode from 2018 and reflect back on it. What transpires is, yet again, more wisdom and calm that we can all use right about.....now. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 09 Feb 2021 | Language: Language Research in Nepal with the Folks from the Big & White Podcast | 00:26:17 | |
If you've ever wondered what it's like to live and do linguistic research in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode is for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives on their podcast (the https://bigwhitepodcast.libsyn.com/website (Big & White podcast). Their connection and how they bounce off each other is so much fun to listen to. This is the main reason I became a fan of The Big & White Podcast in the first place and definitely why I asked to interview them for the show. This episode is a part of a podcast pair. How apt. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 25 Sep 2018 | Reflections: Traveling Back in Time To Her 1st Year Expat Social Media Posts In Thailand with Alison | 01:26:26 | |
Ex-chef and perpetual expat Alison takes us through her Instagram feed from her first year in Thailand: freedom, an explosion of her senses and moments of cultural pause are audio enclosed, proceed with caution and contemplation. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 02 Apr 2021 | Online: Social Media As A Home Anchor with Tania of Swahili Secrets | 00:54:44 | |
Can social media ground us and make us feel more at peace in this crazy world? This conversation with Tania from Swahili Secrets will present an answer to this question that is not common but very refreshing. Tania was born in Kenya and moved around a lot. Her geographical footprint includes 4 other African countries, Thailand, Austria and Germany. Although she calls Germany home, her heart and her projects revolve around Kenya. In this conversation we follow her online journey from her first chat room all the way through to her current day Instagram world. This IG space includes the travel services of Swahili Secrets, the African inspired merchandise of Bantu Sisters, and the community oriented The Kenyan Kind. In this conversation we chat about:
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| 05 Jun 2021 | Books: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway with Shannon Martin | 00:57:56 | |
In December 2019 my dear friend Shannon Martin and I sat down and recorded an episode about The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. We were so intrigued with the book that we wanted to repeat the process with the more autobiographical version of the book, A Moveable Feast. And then we both left China and you know what happened. We did record this follow up episode in mid-2020 but life was still hectic. So here it is, nearly a year later. Thank you to Shannon for being so patient during this time. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 23 Jun 2018 | Language: German & Chinese Languages in Shanghai with Bookish YouTuber Angie Dumas | 01:20:01 | |
In this episode we chat with Angie, Creator of T(h)ree of Books YouTube channel is from Germany. She had a few languages under her belt before moving to Shanghai, China and studying Mandarin Chinese. Angie decided to take the time to study Mandarin Chinese in a classroom setting the first few months she was in the city and that is what our conversation revolves around. I have been curious about Chinese language classes in China so I had questions! 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 12 Feb 2019 | Online: From Canada to Thailand: Greg from the Bangkok Podcast On Chat Rooms, Blogs & Podcasts | 01:19:51 | |
THIS WEEK we chat with Greg from the Bangkok Podcast . Greg moved from his passport country of Canada to Thailand 17 years ago. His IRC chatroom habits at home changed quite a bit since this move and we try to sort out (Canadian vowel here folks!) if it was the changing digital landscape or his move to another country (and all of the cultural and social changes that go with the expat experience) that brought on these changes, including writing his blog, Greg to Differ and creating the Bangkok Podcast. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 24 Mar 2022 | Language: From Teacher To Podcaster | Legendary Interviews: Legendary Language Learner YouTube Channel | 00:31:20 | |
This episode is about half of a conversation that Matthew Boyle of Legendary Language Learner YouTube channel and I had about language teaching, content creation and the intersection between the two. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 04 Jun 2019 | Why is this American expat living in Nuremberg, Germany writing about Swedish cheese? | 01:18:12 | |
In this episode we chat with Summer Rylander, an American expat who has been living in Nuremberg, Germany since 2015. Summer is a freelance food and travel writer with a fondness for cooking, reading, daydreaming, procrastinating, and taking long walks with podcasts. Her latest droolworthy publication in Culture Magazine is about Swedish cheese (yes, it’s a thing!). When Summer gets writing hungry, she also posts about food and cooking on her blog, Eat Something Go Somewhere. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 09 Oct 2018 | Language: Identity & Translation with Writer, Translator, Global Linguistic Soul Jeremy Tiang | 02:06:58 | |
As a writer and playright, words are what Jeremy Tiang uses to share his ideas about the world and all of its ambiguity. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 18 Mar 2019 | Reflections: A First Year in the United States Via Social Media Posts With Nigerian Expat Motolani Ogunsanya Of The More Sibyl Podcast | 01:32:22 | |
In this episode we chat with Expat Mo from the More Sibyl Podcast. She describes this show as “a podcast about culture and cultural nomads designed for Blacks and Asians and those who love them.” Mo is a Nigerian-born, US-educated, Korean-speaking, Struggling Intellectual. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 29 Jun 2018 | Language: Mandarin Chinese and English language natives share their language stories, methods and challenges: Yifei & Phil | 01:36:51 | |
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. They share their own language learning stories, their successes and challenges in an open, blunt and friendly group conversation. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 29 Feb 2020 | Coffee: Marielle From Agnep Heritage Farms Shares Her Love Of Coffee In Melboune, Berlin & Many Countries in Asia | 00:42:42 | |
Marielle is a Data Scientist in Berlin. She is also a long-distance coffee farmer because her family started a coffee farm in our ancestral home in the Philippines (in Mankayan, Benguet). They practice organic and sustainable Agroforestry and they hope to one day export their coffee through a transparent supply chain. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 27 Jul 2020 | Books: One Year Later, "Schadenfreude, A Love Story..." With The Author, Rebecca Schuman | 00:42:08 | |
One year ago today Nicole from the Expat Cast, former guest and guest Host Tatjana and I discussed the book Schadenfreude, a Love Story: Me, the Germans and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words for in an episode. After I moved to Berlin, Germany I posted a photo of my neighborhood and Tatjana reminded me that this street was mentioned in the book. I decided tor reread the book and also reached out to the Author to see if we could ask her some questions. We are so thrilled that she said yes. This episode is the conversation that I had with Rebecca about her book, with prerecorded questions from Nicole and Tatjana, of course. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 19 Jun 2020 | Coffee: Austria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic and Germany Coffee Explorations with Travis Dow of Podcastnik Productions | 00:42:12 | |
Travis lived in Germany and the Czech Republic for 20 years and podcasts about history on podcastnik.com. After talking about alchemy and witches as a ghost-tour guide in Prague, he teamed up with Pete Collman to figure out podcasting as a medium to tell stories from history. Travis has a long and complicatedly long adoration with coffee that started in his childhood upbringing in Germany. Now, he now lives in Oregon, where he partakes in specialty and 7-11 coffee. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 10 Jul 2018 | Language: Chinese National Eric Shares His English, Japanese & French Language Learning Stories | 01:51:58 | |
Eric (his English name) grew up partly outside of Shanghai, China and then in Shanghai. He is now a Software Engineer that maneuvers through his Shanghai life in a multitude of languages including Mandarin Chinese, Shanghaiese, English, Japanese and French. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 14 May 2019 | Online: Kelly Merks Of The Bullet Trains & Bike Lane Blog On Desiring Mundanity Online | 01:33:20 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with Kelly Merks, a Texas expat who has lived abroad since 2011, in Japan and in the Netherlands. Her Twitter bio tells is: “A Texan full of fernweh (NOTE: “fernweh is a German word that means “ A Farsickness or Longing for Unseen Places.). Noob knitter and clay thrower. Fairy godmother of @WeAreXpats, a project of @xpatarchive: http://wearexpats.org “ @WeAreXpats is how Kelly and I first met online and connected over discussions of place, social medianess and expat life. For those of you not familiar with rocur accounts, they are rotating accounts where usually 1 person in that category (in this case, an expat) tweets for a week and then the account will rotate to another person after that. Kelly started this rocur account while she was a volunteer at the Expatriate Archive Center in The Hauge where she now is their Public Relations Manager. Outside of the EAC, Kelly also is raising a tiny human with her husband and somehow finds time to write about her geographic pondering in her blog, Bullet Trains & Bike Lanes. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 30 Apr 2019 | Online: Hao Wu, Director of People's Republic Of Desire On His Own Virtual Habits Binationally | 00:45:09 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with China-United States Binational Documentarian Hao Wu about how his movement between these two countries has affected what he has done online, both in personal and professional capacities. Hao grew up in China and has had healthy movement from China to the U.S. and back in his adult life. Although he is currently based in New York City, he admits that he is most interested in stories about China. One of these China focused projects, People’s Republic of Desire, is about the Chinese live streaming platform YY and specifically about two popular Hosts on the platform. This documentary was screened in Shanghai, where I am currently living, earlier this year. Shannon Martin of Podbean and our local Host of the Podcast Brunch Club was there as well. In fact, during the screening and for days after the event, Shannon and I exchanged ideas, questions and ponderings about the documentary. We are very grateful that Hao was kind enough to agree to an interview so we could ask him about when the Internet became an integral part of his daily life, how creating a documentary about the trials and tribulations of live streaming for years affected his own online activities and the how his online tasks change, even now, when he flies from the U.S. to China and vice versa. Note: Hao’s latest project, All In My Family, about his alternative family journey from within a traditional Chinese family structure, is on Netflix May 3rd, 2019. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 16 Aug 2019 | "My Experience Is Where I am From" Ting, Third Culture Kid Onlineness | 01:35:55 | |
In this podcast episode, I chat with Ting, a Third Culture Adult who is currently interviewing fellow TCKs and TCAs about their experiences. I first heard about her project when I went to a TCK event in Shanghai earlier this year. During this event Ting shared her experiences living in China, Singapore, the U.S. and Hong Kong- all before she graduated from college. She had, as many geopats do, a complex mix of conflicting emotions and experiences connected to this multicultural identity. More on her story in a moment. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 17 Jul 2020 | Language: Beyond the Words: German Language Ponderings with Steph from Transcontinental Overload | 00:43:54 | |
In this episode, Steph Cook of Transcontinental Overload is kind enough to ponder 3 aspects of German that strike me (Geopats Steph) as strange. Her insights and humo(u)r about these differences is a sheer delight. You will never hear the German language in the same way again. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 27 Dec 2018 | Does going viral on social media make you rich? | 01:39:00 | |
THIS WEEK we chat with Creatrix Tiara. Tiara started interacting with others online in chat rooms at 10 years old while IRL living in Malaysia. Over the years Tiara’s geographical path has included locations in Malaysia, Australia and the U.S. While Tiara’s geographic life shifted, Tiara’s online life seems to have had an upward trajectory in notariety and impact due to the candid and eloquent vocalization of immigrant and queer issues. Like many Online Content Creators, Tiara’s work going viral has not balanced notoriety with financial freedom. But perhaps that will change with the Queer Lady Magician show Tiara is currently doing (the next round of which will take place at the Melbourne LGBTQ Festival Midsumma from January 30-February 3, 2019). Judging from the voluminous body of work, Tiara will no doubt keep writing and creating for as long as possible. This passion to analyze, share and question is what first led me to Tiara’s creations and is why I love keeping up to date on what Tiara is doing. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 30 Oct 2018 | Reflections: From Finland to China & Back Blogging with Pia of Pian Shanghai 上海 | 01:09:58 | |
Pia and her family just recently left Shanghai, China after living here for two years. I have met some active expats in my life but Pia takes the cake on really living life the fullest. She explored China, worked and volunteered locally, all while raising two intelligent and worldly daughters. How did moving to the U.S. a few years ago help her to make this transition to living in China? Come have a listen to the answer to that question and more as we explore a blog of hers from this time period. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 21 Jun 2019 | Online: A Colocated American Expat Film & TV Writer, Producer, Director and Podcaster: Brendan Davis | 01:38:17 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with Brendan Davis, an American expat who has lived in China for many years. Brendan is a Film and TV Writer, Producer, Director and fellow Podcaster. His podcasts are: If I Knew You Better, Big Fish in the Middle Kingdom and How China Works. Brendan somehow has kept grounded as has been involved with some pretty spectacular creative projects globally. Okay, to be honest, he is a bit crazy, good crazy, as his website, https://www.crazyinagoodway.com admits to. The kind of crazy that you want in your life and in your earbuds. In this conversation Steph and Brendan chat about how his move to China changed what he did online, how he is splitting his time now that he has decided not to work IN China but will continue to keep a home base (and an Internet connection) here, and how he cultivated his crazy in a good way online persona while being a deep, thought provoking and may I say, wonderful human being. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 12 Nov 2018 | Reflections: Music To Help Feel At Home In Denmark With British Expat Karl | 01:09:59 | |
Originally from the UK, Karl discusses how he found himself in Denmark, the experiences of his first year and how music helped him to feel at home in his adopted country. He chose The National’s “Trouble Will Find Me” album from 2013 as a jumping off point to discuss the ups and downs of his transition into expat life in Denmark. In the interview Karl briefly mentions his current studies and internship at Sleeknote,which “helps small e-commerce shops and big online retails engage website visitors—without hurting the user experience” and he wanted to share this Sleeknote scholarship with all of you. Thank you for spreading the word about this wonderful opportunity. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 18 Dec 2018 | Language: Mandarin Chinese and English Simultaneous Interpreter & Natural Storyteller, Chinese National Liz, 沃维薇 (Wò wéi wēi) | 01:35:27 | |
In this episode we talk to 沃维薇 (Wò wéi wēi), also known as Liz, about her dual Mandarin Chinese-English language experiences. Liz grew up in Shanghai, China with a passion for books and languages, which explains why and how she was reading English Sci-Fi at 14 years old. She is now a Simultaneous Interpreter, which is someone that is translating one language to another during a conversation at regular conversational speed. Yes, wow is the correct response to that. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 01 Apr 2019 | How did this expat not expat coexist in Australia and China? | 01:38:40 | |
In the Podcast episode, we talked to Tanya Crossman, author of Misunderstood The Impact of Growing Up Overseas in the 21st Century about her experiences learning and using Mandarin Chinese since she was a teenager. Tanya has a deep connection both to Chinese culture and language but her language story does not stop there. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 06 Dec 2018 | Language: Creating Mandarin Chinese Card Games After Becoming Fluent in Chinese with Matthew Boyle | 01:15:50 | |
In this episode we talk to Matthew Boyle, who started learning Mandarin Chinese thanks to an administrative error in his Arabic class registration at university. In 2011, he moved from the East Coast of the United States to Southern China and started to “play with the language” immediately. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 27 Dec 2019 | Languages, Voices & Sound with Chinese PhD Researcher Phoebe | 01:39:28 | |
How sound sensitive are you? Our guest today, Phoebe, grew up with Mandarin Chinese but has learned a myriad of languages including English, Finnish, German & more. But her sound talent goes far beyond languages into sound and voice research in her current PhD life in Ireland. She is currently researching the connection between recorded voices and listeners’ emotional responses to them. This sensitivity and Phoebe’s general curiosity touch every aspect of language that we discuss in this conversation. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 08 Aug 2019 | How and why did this French national learn Chinese? | 01:04:22 | |
In this podcast episode, Steph talks with Thom Clairmont, Thomreads on Instagram, a French university student who is studying Sinology in graduate school. Sinology is the study of Chinese language, history, customs and politics. He has studied French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian but it is Chinese that he is the most fascinated with. In fact, he admits to not even liking learning languages until he started learning Chinese the last two years of high school.What is it about the language that pulled Thom in and kept his attention? I’m afraid that you will have to have a listen to his language story for the details of him studying Mandarin Chinese both in Europe as well as in Asia. What I can tell you is that what Thom puts out into the world about his studies and about his reading experiences outside of Academic texts, is thoughtful, relevant and shared from a place of heartfelt enjoyment. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 06 Mar 2020 | Podcasting: Melissa and David From The Strong Sense Of Place Podcast Share Their Love Of Books, Travel & Laughter | 00:50:35 | |
David Humphreys and Melissa Joulwan are the hosts of Strong Sense of Place, a podcast and web site dedicated to literary travel and books with vivid settings. In each episode of their show, they explore one destination and talk about what makes that place different from everywhere else on earth. Then they recommend books set in that destination and talk to a special guest. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 28 Sep 2020 | On Being Language Seen: A Japanese American in Japan: Ken Hirano | 00:41:53 | |
In this episode we are talking to Ken Hirano, who was born in Japan but his family moved to the U.S. before he started school. He has returned to Japan to live a few times in his life, and now is one of them. He moved back to Tokyo about a year ago and recently https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kenhirano_china-culture-asianamericans-activity-6707162545993711616-aQZP/ (wrote a post on LinkedIn) on this geographic anniversary about his cultural and language identity. And that is what we are digging into today. This identity path took us through how he feels in different languages, why he feels more simple and defenseless in Japanese than English, how Japanese locals versus expats in Japan treat his Japanese & Americanness and where he is the most comfortable. Spoiler: none of these issues have a clearly defined answer and that is what made this nuanced discussion with Ken so interesting to have. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 07 May 2018 | What was it like to move to South Korea from the U.S. in 2003? | 00:35:22 | |
Have your expectations about a place ever gotten you into trouble? American expat Evan, also known as my husband, was kind enough to be our first guest on the podcast show back in 2017. He shared a group email that he wrote to his family and friends back home with us as well as what he thinks about his culture shock now, 20 years later. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 14 May 2018 | What was it like to move from China to Scotland for this writer? | 00:30:36 | |
This week we expat chat with Xing Zhao, a Chinese Writer, Translator and former expat in Edinburgh, Scotland. Xing shares with us a blog post, Kapa Zhou, that he wrote during his first year studying in Scotland. He goes on to reflect on how his memories of that time period and how they are not fully represented in the blog entry. Xing also shared a post he wrote on the Chinese language version of this blog as advice to other international students. As someone who has taught international students both in Asia and in my passport country of the U.S, this was interesting insight to get first hand indeed. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 07 Dec 2018 | Online: Anh Ta, A Vietnamese Artist & Online Role Model living in the U.S. | 01:17:44 | |
THIS WEEK we are proud to have Anh Ta with us for a conversation about how geographic movement from Vietnam to the U.S. has affected her online experience. Anh is an Artist with a strong online presence that she carefully curated for both professional and personal usage. She originally moved from Hanoi, Vietnam to the U.S. for her Bachelor’s Degree and has just completed her Master’s Degree in Art recently as well. Congratulations Anh! She is currently creating art and sharing it and other aspects of her life online from New York City. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 19 Nov 2018 | Online: Steve Shares His Virtual Decisions in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and the UK | 02:10:10 | |
Steve left the UK for a trip to Spain quite a number of years ago. After that trip he ended up living in Greece for a year and just reached his 6 year anniversary in Asia this month. After living a number of years both on and offline in mainland China, he moved to Hong Kong earlier this year, where he now works as a Life Coach. Like yours truly, he has been an avid user of online technologies and social media from the beginning and has a lot of stories of wonderful and not so wonderful things that have happened online. And, also like myself, he has a lot of questions about what the hell we are doing online and how sustainable our virtual selves are going forward. His expat geographic life and VRL (virtual reality life) do in fact seem to affect each other in a rather interesting way, so have a listen and let us know what you think. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 02 Sep 2018 | Online: How to be a Conscious Digital Citizen Role Model, Jo Of Life in Breaths | 02:06:36 | |
We started this podcast with Jo, a British expat who was living in Shanghai, China. Her wisdom, insight, humour and down to earth advice to other expats about how their online and geographical selves can, should, may and might influence each other is very inspiring. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 09 Feb 2022 | Coffee: The moral dilema of foam art in Tokyo, Paris, & New York with Yuki of Book Nerds Tokyo | 00:51:52 | |
Yuki and I sat down to have this conversation far too long ago. Life has been crazy and, to be honest, I even stopped drinking coffee for awhile. So it felt weird publishing this episode during that time. But things feel a little more frothy these days, so here it is! And here SHE is:) Yuki has sought out, enjoyed and brewed coffee in many locations globally. She's more known for her Book Nerd Tokyo Instagram account cause she's also a bookworm (yet another reason to adore her) but you'll often see coffee in her IG posts as well. Cause books and coffee go very well together. But if you're reading this, you are well aware of this glorious pairing. Let me tell you a few things you don't already know. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 27 Dec 2018 | Language: Loving The Brain Burn of Learning Mandarin Chinese with American Von | 00:49:34 | |
This week we talk to Von, an American who grew up around Mandarin Chinese via martial arts and later intentionally slid into learning to read the language as well. Von thought the first 4 of the 5 years he studied Chinese were easy because he viewed it similar to the frequent practice of any new skill. But then the grammatical difficulty, script changes, and genre differences kicked in and the “brain burn” began.But that has not stopped his progress at all. He studies usually in intensive two week increments of about 6 hours a day and then pauses until the desire to learn returns (usually a few weeks later). His patience, persistence and contextualization of the language are ideal characteristics for what I wish were called the “Slow Language Learning Movement.” In a world where people strive to learn a language in 30 days, his views are refreshing and his approach is inspiring. Come along and listen to how he wants to use language to “speak the story of what he wants to say." 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 07 May 2019 | Language: Cultural Flexibility In Mandarin Chinese & Finnish with Lotta | 01:09:30 | |
In this episode we chat with Lotta, a Finnish college student who lived in Shanghai, China between High School and University. During part of that time she took intensive Chinese language courses. Lotta has continued with her Chinese language learning even after returning to Finland by using TV shows and other media until she can take more language classes at her university. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 28 Jun 2019 | Did writing about moving to China impact this expat's daily life? | 01:22:05 | |
Antonella Moretti is the Author of Parsley and Coriander, a fictional book about an Italian expat community in Suzhou, China. Antonella has lived in Suzhou for many years herself and draws upon her personal expat experience for this narrative. In this episode we asked Antonella about her two bookish hats: expat reader AND expat Writer. We discuss her love of reading books about China, what led her to write this book on an expat experience in China and about the publication and translation process. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 04 Sep 2018 | Online: Venezuelan Expat in China, Ronald of the Creativity Roots Podcast Contemplates His Virtualness With Us | 01:48:34 | |
Have you ever been inspired by someone online, contacted them, met them in person and was even more impressed? Yup, that's the story of how Ronald and I met and it happened in just a few hours. I was listening to his Creativity Roots Podcast and loving it. The rest of the story is in the intro, so I don't want to spoil that part. What I will say is that we met at just the right time. I struggle greatly with accepting my creativity and he wears his like a favorite tshirt. He also has a heavy online presence, for both personal and professional reasons. And with that presence came opportunity, responsibility and love (oh wait until you hear his jokes!) Thank you Ronald for reminding me how freeing it can be to embrace who we are without judgement both on and offline. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 05 Mar 2019 | Online: Alexandra Talty, An American Travel Journalist Based In Beirut, Lebanon | 01:23:15 | |
In this episode we chat with Alexandra Talty, an American who has lived on and offline in Italy, the Dominican Republic and Beirut, Lebanon, where she has been based for 4 years now. Over the years Alexandra has taken full advantage of online opportunities available via blogs/blogging, social media platforms, and YouTube. She maintains a healthy IRL-VRL (online-offline) balance with regular social media fasts and by participating in and hosting online groups that meet in person. She is very honest and candid about her experiences being a foreign, American, female Journalist and all of the advantages and disadvantages those pieces of her identity invite as she works online while living abroad. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 21 Feb 2020 | Books: Book Culture in Prague, Czech Republic with Mel & Dave from a Strong Sense of Place Podcast | 00:17:16 | |
Do you read about a place before traveling there? Yup, so do we. By we I mean Mel and Dave, two American expats living in Prague, Czech Republic and Creators of the Sense of Place Podcast. Oh, and myself. In a few podcast episodes Mel and Dave have already perfected the art of diving deep into a place via books and the people who love them. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 26 Jul 2019 | How was Germany different in the 1990's? | 01:17:46 | |
What do you get when you have two American Expats and one German Expat talk about a book by a former American Expat living in 1990’s Former East Germany? This culturally windy episode dripping with heaps of blasted stereotypes, linguistic gems and lots of laughter. We are delighted to have Nicole Palazzo, Host of the Expat Cast Podcast on the show today. Her interview with me in February this year on the Expat Cast is a big reason why Bookish Expats exists so danke Nicole! More on the book that we talked about below, but first, let's pay some pod bills. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 09 Apr 2019 | Online: Andy Curtain, Australian Comedian & Host of Stuck In The Middle Podcast On His Virtual Identity | 01:24:33 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with long term China Expat Andy Curtain about his geographical movement from Melbourne, Australia to Shanghai, China and what effect it had on his online activities/presence. Even though he was online quite early in Australia with IRC and ICQ, he admits that most of his current online activities have been utility based, focusing on his stand up comedy promotions and community building. As a fellow Content Creator (and Influencer, lol), I find it very interesting that the making of his podcast, Stuck in the Middle, helps him process his own comedic material. There is so much to say about Andy, the deep impression he has made on the stand up comedy scene in China and his own business savvy that has impacted how I think of my own creative endeavors on and offline in the short time since this interview took place. But for now I will just say thank you Andy for coming on the show and sharing your story. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 07 Oct 2018 | Online: Data Scientist and Computational Linguist Sowmya Vajjala Shares Her Online Habits in India, Germany & The U.S. | 00:50:12 | |
Sowmya Vajjala is a Data Scientist, a Computational Linguist and one of the most intelligent and down to earth people you will ever meet. She is from India, lived in Germany for her PhD program and then taught at Iowa State University in the U.S., which is where I met her. She has since moved to Toronto, Canada, where she was during this conversation. Personally, she has impacted my life in ways I am only beginning to understand. But that is all explained in the podcast itself. Her perspective on if living in different countries impacts people’s online experiences is very different than what we have heard so far in this podcast. This honest, matter of fact approach to the messiness of online life as it currently exists is, frankly, refreshing. I think you are going to appreciate this very different point of view on social media, geographical movement and why we do what we do online. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 25 Oct 2019 | Peak European Coffee Experiences with Ana of Las Saboritas, the Prague Culinary Twitter Account | 00:40:11 | |
Ana Blackstad has experienced coffee culture in so many different places that I ran out of ink during our chat yesterday. Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit but seriously, Ana moved to Prague, Czech Republic only 3 years ago but she has made the caffeinated most out of her time there by exploring both local Prague cafes (many of which are listed down below) and those in neighboring countries like Italy, Greece, the UK, Norway, Finland and Turkey. Her love of this beany goodness comes through loud and clear. Ohhhhh, just wait until you reach the part where she describes the best latte she ever had. She speaks of “peak coffee experiences” and the “theatricality” of cafes so eloquently that I think we should all adopt this vocabulary to share the coffee goodness going forward. Who’s with me on this idea? 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 13 Dec 2018 | Reflections: Alison Maciejewski On Food, Technology & Microfinance Explorations Online | 01:17:27 | |
Alison Maciejewski made me think long and hard about food photos in our shifting expat lives. How does our wanderlust come through online? But the conversation is not all serious, we have some fun comparing emoji options on Line (in Thailand) and WeChat (in China), what and where “ugly delicious food” is, and how using teen dramas are a good way to learn the Thai language. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 10 Jun 2019 | Language: A Self Proclaimed Muddler of Mandarin Chinese, Angela | 01:02:44 | |
In this episode, we chat with Angela, a Canadian who went to China for the first time in 2006, which is where she met her husband. She left China and returned, as so many expats do. Lucky for me, she came back to China in 2010 and worked at the same school teaching Academic English to students who were about to study abroad. Angela’s relationship to languages and language learning is the complete opposite to mine: before learning Mandarin Chinese she fluently learned French, Spanish and Finnish, with a strong emphasis on speaking the language. She is now a teacher in Canada and is able to help International students from China and other countries, adapt to their new learning and academic life in a small study group environment as well. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 23 Apr 2019 | Books: 'Working With The Thais' with Podcasting Futurist Evo Terra | 00:56:47 | |
In the podcast episode we chat with Evo Terra . Some of you might remember him from season 2 of the Bangkok Podcast with Co-Host Greg Jorgensen, However, Evo’s podcast history goes back much farther than this. In fact, one of his podcasts was the 40th podcast of all time (there are rumored to be about 700,000ish podcasts listed in Apple Podcasts right now) and he wrote the first Podcasting for Dummies books. We recorded this interview about the time of his one year reverse culture shock anniversary (exexpatsary?) returning to the U.S. after living in Bangkok, Thailand for a few years. He selected the book, Working With The Thais to talk about. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 26 Mar 2019 | Online: Virtual Habits In Ecuador, the U.S, UK and China with Eva Yoo, Founder of Seekroad.com | 01:21:15 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with Eva Yoo, a Korean Tech Journalist who has lived in the U.S., the UK, Ecuador, Israel and China. Last year she completed an 8 month cycling trip from Shanghai, China to the UK, along the ancient Silk Road. During this trip she did many interviews with people working in startups. But Eva is so much more than the sum of these actions: she is a kind, thoughtful and curious person who makes the balancing of IRL and VRL (offline and online lives) look easy and I greatly admire her for that. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 26 Sep 2019 | Podcasting: Podcasting Culture in Germany With American Expat Nicole of the Expat Cast | 00:21:51 | |
What do you do as an expat when your life goal is to collect and share experiences and information? You start a podcast! And that is exactly what American expat in Germany Nicole Palazzo did just after her first year in Freiburg, Germany. We recorded this mini episode on the new Podbean Live app, which was in Beta version. There were some technical issues but we pushed through and I think there is so much useful and interesting information in Nicole's audio story. In fact, she is going to come back and in the future and update us on her expat podcasting life and adventures. Hurrah. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 29 May 2020 | Books: Talking Banana Yoshimoto's "Kitchen" with Book Nerd Tokyo Yuki Tejima and Guest Host Tatjana | 01:02:23 | |
Welcome to the bookish world of Japan. Guest Host Tatjana from Craving Expat Life chats with Yuki fromBook Nerd Tokyo about Japanese books, specifically Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen” in this conversation. They explore Yuki’s life between Japan and the USA as well as Tatjana’s discovery of Japanese literature, translations, and stereotypes. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 13 Sep 2019 | Internet Habits with Yunus Emre Karasakal: Brazilian Jiujitsu Instructor and Douyin Content Creator | 02:00:06 | |
In this episode I am pleased to welcome Yunus Emre Karasakal, a Turkish expat in Shanghai, China. Yunus is a Brazilian JiuJitsu (BJJ) Instructor here in Shanghai as well as an Abu Dhabi World Pro Masters Champion (Brown Belt) and an IBJJF Asian Open Champion (Brown and Black Belt). Yes, for the language geeks, he gives BJJ instruction in English and Chinese and yes, we chatted about him coming on the Changing Scripts show soon, don’t worry. Yunus is the first expat I’ve talked to that spends more time on his host country’s social media platforms than the ones he used before moving abroad. The platform he uses the most is the very popular Chinese video app, Douyin, which has an outside of China app spin off called Tiktok. He brings BJJ to a funny level on this current platform. If you don’t have Douyin, don’t worry, you can still see some of his videos on Instagram. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 26 Aug 2022 | Did growing up with two home cultures prepare Alison Maciejewski expat life? | 00:43:57 | |
How much do our immigrant parents impact our adult expat experiences? This is what we're exploring in this conversation with return guest Alison. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 27 Aug 2022 | Becoming American with our Immigrant Parents with Chelsea Chi | 00:38:48 | |
Have you ever wondered why your immigrant parent(s) didn't prepare you for being a global citizen? 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 28 Aug 2022 | Expats can go home with Georges | 00:46:01 | |
Have your immigrant parents ever visited you in any of your expat places? Georges' parents have and it shifted how he understood their struggles moving from Greece to Canada. We cover a lot more ground on his parents' immigrant story and how it has both positively and negatively influenced his own expat experience. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 29 Aug 2022 | Fitting in, standing out and striving with Stephanie Fuccio | 00:41:37 | |
Questions about family can be triggering if the experience was not ideal. This is one of the reasons that Steph's talked about her family in tiny drips here and there but not in depth. But it felt disingenuous to ask other expats to open up about their early family life growing up with immigrant parents without diving into these experiences herself. So to help with this tabled turned interview, Melissa was kind enough to hop in and guide the conversation. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 27 Jul 2022 | Early podcasting in Spain and the UK with Pilar Orti and Craig Wealand | 00:36:54 | |
Language podcaster Craig is from the UK but has been podcasting in Spain for many years. Alternatively business podcaster Pilar has the opposite geographical podcasting experience being from Spain and podcasting from the UK for a long time. And yet they found each other and created a podcast about the scene in Spain some years ago. In this conversation with Craig and Pilar we dig into what they learned about podcasting in these two countries, how the space has changed since their podcast was live and how indy podcasting differs from business podcasting. These two folks are knowledgeable and are tapped into the space in a passion led way so there's a lot to learn from them. Let's get to it! 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 31 May 2018 | What was dog culture shock like for this American in China? | 00:35:43 | |
The first year in a new country is always the hardest. Evan did what I did, he took to writing a blog to sort out the think through what he was seeing, experiencing and feeling. In this conversation we revisit an early blog post of his from when he first arrived in China. We chat about dogs, language and so many more nuanced aspects of Chinese (and American) culture. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 16 Sep 2018 | Language: Chinese National Lucy Shares Her English & Japanese Language Learning Story | 01:12:11 | |
Lucy grew up in Shanghai, China speaking both Standard Mandarin Chinese and a local Songjiang dialect. She later learned other languages both as a child and an adult. Her descriptions of both the Chinese and foreign language classrooms in China are fascinating. She is now working in an English language workplace in Shanghai in the Social Media arena of a local publication, 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 21 Mar 2021 | Language: The languages in Albania with Diane and Kyle, former Peace Corps volunteers | 01:07:44 | |
Can learning a new language unlock part of your personality? 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 05 Mar 2021 | Language: Albanian, Serbian & Turkish Languages with Educator, Author & Advocate Elizabeth Gowing | 00:46:45 | |
Language can be a lens into culture, a way to share our experiences and a tool to help others. These are some of the aspects of language that we discuss with guest Elizabeth Gowing. She worked in primary education in inner London before moving to the Balkans in 2006. From then until very recently she split her time between Kosovo, Albania and the UK. During her time in the Balkans she immersed herself in many of the languages used there and shares the cultural insights that she learned. One of these experiences while she was in Kosovo was co-founding the http://theideaspartnership.org/wp/ (Ideas Partnership) non-profit. She is also the owner of the https://www.facebook.com/sapuneKS (Sapune social enterprise), offering employment to village and minority community women and support to the education of their children. Elizabeth is also an author of five travel bookshttps: www.elizabethgowing.com/my-books and has translated two books from Albanian. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 12 Mar 2019 | How did this serial American expat learn Chinese as a Journalist? | 00:54:31 | |
In this episode we continue our conversation with Eric Olander about his 33 year Mandarin Chinese language learning experience. Eric is a Journalist, Blogger, Media Executive, and Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the China Africa Project which includes the China in Africa Podcast, which he co-hosts weekly with Cobus Van Staden. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 22 May 2019 | How did this American expat (and puppeteer) learn Chinese slang? | 02:01:22 | |
Nine Years Ago Joshua Ogden-Davis left graduate school in Texas, moved to China and taught himself Chinese. He is now a Mandarin Chinese Translator, does audio and video production in multiple languages, and is a Puppeteer. In this Changing Scripts podcast episode we dig into Josh’s fuller language story, including this switch from English to Mandarin Chinese as well as his experiences with Spanish, German and English from his beforetime. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 12 Dec 2019 | Books: The Sun Also Rises With Two Expats in Shanghai, China: Shannon Martin & Stephanie Fuccio | 01:15:59 | |
Years ago an expat friend of mine made a comparison with the Lost Generation in Paris in the 1920’s and Western expats in Asia in the early 2000’s and I have never forgotten it. Shannon Martin returns to the Geopats Podcast for a dive into Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” book about his slice of the Lost Generation so that we can dig into this expat generation comparison with about 100 years time difference between them. We will be following up with a conversation about Hemingway’s more autobiographical version of “The Sun Also Rises”, “A Moveable Feast” in 2020, when both of us will possibly be living in Western Europe. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 05 Jul 2019 | Books: “The Global Soul” by Pico Iyer With Two Podcasting Expats | 01:37:08 | |
The Global Soul by Pico Iyer is a seminal geopat book. Stephanie and Summer (Steph’s Co-Host on the new podcast Creatively Complicated) dig into this book in a very big way. This is not a regular episode because Steph is not interviewing Summer about her reading story but instead they are discussing both of their reactions to this book. Summer read this book for the first time recently thanks (or no thanks, lol) to Steph’s persistent recommendation and Steph tried to reread it for the first time since she fell in love with it in 2002. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 23 Aug 2019 | Books: What was rural China like in the early 20th century? | 01:20:00 | |
In this podcast episode, I am honored to talk with Tina Kanagaratnam about the book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Tina is a Bookish Expat with both strong literary and historical knowledge of China. I have been to a number of bookish events in Shanghai where Tina has joined in to provide some historic context to the texts that we were discussing. Every time I have blown away by how knowledgeable, insightful and personable she is. Tina is one of those people that balances intelligence, perspective and humor perfectly. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 19 Jun 2018 | Reflections: Reaching Back to 1st Year Expat Shanghai, China Via a Blog with Shannon Martin of Two Who Travel (2 of 2) | 00:36:05 | |
Did you blog your way through your first experiences in a new place? Shannon Martin does this. She is an American who has lived in Shanghai, China for 6 years. In this two part interview she shares her first impressions of China via a blog post she wrote in 2012 with her current life in Shanghai. Shannon brings up many nuanced aspects of daily life in Shanghai that often get overlooked like personal space differences, cartoon patterned bed sheets, books, quiet places and more. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 19 Jan 2021 | Podcasting: Big and White: Two American Linguists Living & Podcasting in Nepal | 01:04:33 | |
If you've ever wondered what it's like to live, work, and podcast in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode are for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives. Their episodes covered much of what expat podcasts cover like food, weather, language, and cultural differences but there is an extra kick to their podcast. Their connection and how they bounce off each other is so much fun to listen to. This is the main reason I became a fan of The Big & White Podcast in the first place and definitely why I asked to interview them for the show. Don't worry, we also talk about podcasting bits like technology, social media, podcast learning curve, editing, audience feedback, Nepali podcasts, guests, and advice for new Podcasters also. But this conversation is a bit more free-flowing than some of the other Geopats Podcasting episodes because we dipped into some of their content topics too like their visual stickoutness in Nepal (thus the name of the podcast), weight lifting and so much more. And since they are Linguists that were doing field work all over Nepal, there is an episode coming on Geopats Language podcast with that geeking out aspect as well. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 15 Oct 2018 | Reflections: Political Disappointment Via A Familial Letter With American Expat Jennifer | 01:19:06 | |
Many of us are promised things growing up in a certain culture and often those promises are never actualized. Jennifer is an American who had been to over 70 countries before moving to China to teach at an international school but that did not stop this home country disappointment from kicking in. In this episode she reads a poem that she wrote a bit after her first year in China to her father about these cultural promises. And as we often do in Expat Rewind, we spend quite a while unpacking what this poem and the frustration in it means to her now, what has changed since she wrote it and so much more. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 30 Sep 2019 | What's it like for this South African to live in Germany long term? | 00:29:41 | |
“...they say that it gives them a perspective of Germany from outsiders eyes. That was a surprise for me.” Shaun, Host of Expat Life Germany The Germany Experience (formerly Expat Life Germany) is one of those podcasts that you listen to as you are doing something else (for me I was cleaning the apartment) and then find yourself stopping, grabbing a drink and sitting down to listen. Why? Because the authentic, thinky conversations that Host Shaun has with his guests are so calm and intriguing that you want to give them your full attention. This is exactly why I had to reach out to Shaun and ask him to join us on this new Expat Podcasters show. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 13 Oct 2020 | Language: International Podcast Day Language Learning Panel | 00:55:38 | |
On September 30, 2020 I was thrilled to lead a language learning Podcasters panel for International Podcast Day. You can watch the video of this panel on YouTube, https://youtu.be/hR8fr0Hapo0, OR you can listen to this on this episode. Thank you to Dave and Steve, the geniuses behind IPD, for holding yet another amazing year's sessions of Podcasters from around the world. And for allowing us to use the audio versions of our panel on our podcasts. Since you are language lovers, you may want to check out the other IPD sessions on YouTube IN other languages. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 24 Jul 2020 | Coffee: Dark Coffee and Fresh Crema with Canadian Expat in China Erin Garnhum | 00:42:21 | |
Erin and I met in Vietnam many years ago, the place where both of our coffee obsession hit a peak, so it only made sense to have her on the podcast. In this episode we dive into her coffee explorations in Australia, many countries in Asia, Italy and Canada. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 18 Jun 2018 | What did this American think of Shanghai, China at first and did it change? (1 of 2) | 00:31:19 | |
Did you blog your way through your first experiences in a new place? Our guest in this and the next episode, Shannon Martin does this. And she did this when she first moved to China and reacted to the pajama wearing and other differences that she now looks back on so differently. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 17 Jul 2020 | Online: Expat Isolation & Music with James Errington, Centuries of Sound Podcast | 00:24:29 | |
Has music ever soothed your soul and made you feel connected again? Yes, me too. And it sounds like the same happened to James when he was an expat for well over a decade. He is back in his home country now so his perspective on his time in the Czech Republic and China are especially poignant. As is the origin story for his intensely researched and impressively sounding podcast, the Centuries of Sound. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 18 Dec 2018 | Was it shocking to move from Florida, USA to Shanghai, China? | 00:52:02 | |
This week we expat chat with first time expat, Miicher, a Florida, US native who decided it was time for a change. Miicher is a teacher, an actor, a mom and a natural storyteller, which explains why her Facebook China Chronicles , where she has been sharing her experiences in Shanghai, China, have become such a hit. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 13 Mar 2020 | Language: Linguist, Author & Jazz Musician David Moser Chats About The Intersection Of Music And Language | 00:53:26 | |
How much overlap is there between music and language? Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist & returning Geopat Podcast Guest, David Moser, joins us again for a dive into this question. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 27 Sep 2019 | Rwanda, China & the U.S. Internet With Former American Expat Keturah Kendrick, Author of "No Thanks" | 00:59:14 | |
"I actually believe that China is about 15 times more advanced in the usefulness (with social media) than the United States." Keturah Kendrick. Keturah’s online activities changes a lot when she moved to China, but not in ways that you think. Keturah is an intelligent, articulate and delightful person to talk to. I met her at a Podcast Creators meeting in Shanghai, China a few months ago and knew instantly that she needed to be on this podcast for y'all to meet. Her honesty on her online activities pre and post moving to China is really interesting. Keturah is now back in New York City in the U.S. doing her book tour for "No Thanks" and suffering through the adjustments of not using WeChat and the other mobile conveniences in China that she aptly describes in this conversation. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 06 Dec 2019 | Language: Mandarin Chinese History with David Moser, Author of "A Billion Voices" | 00:47:49 | |
Can the making of a language be a riveting story? 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 14 Feb 2020 | Language Talk with Yunus Emre Karasakal: Brazilian Jiujitsu Instructor in Shanghai, China | 00:16:46 | |
This week due to an evil head cold I have something different for you. This mini language episode includes:-a personal German language update (get ready to cringe)and-an unpublished language snippet from a previous interview with Yunus from September 2019 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 26 Mar 2019 | How does this Korean expat balance her social media usage? | 01:21:14 | |
In this podcast episode we chat with Eva Yoo (https://www.seekroad.co/) , a Korean Tech Journalist who has lived in the U.S., the UK, Ecuador, Israel and China. Last year she completed an 8 month cycling trip (https://www.seekroad.co/) from Shanghai, China to the UK, along the ancient Silk Road. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 04 Oct 2019 | “Language is the center of everything I do.” Linguist David Moser | 00:43:26 | |
“Language is the center of everything I do.” -https://120226949-447684682532113263.preview.editmysite.com/geopats/episode/update/id/%20https:/twitter.com/david__moser (David Moser). David’s Twitter bio says that he is a Sinologist, Linguist, Jazz Pianist and Author of "A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language" but what it does not say (most likely due to understandable platform space constraints) is the thread of curiosity that permeates everything he does. That curiosity is infectious and one of the reasons why we are pleased to say that he has agreed to become a repeat guest on the Changing Scripts part of the Geopats Podcast. We need time and space to dig into the linguistic, psychological and motivational topics that we started to cover in this conversation and we are super pleased that he is willing and able to do so. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 18 May 2018 | Is reading Chinese fiction easy? | 01:45:09 | |
Phil's journey learning Mandarin Chinese is nothing less than impressive. But he is humble and shares not only his experiences but very practical tips and resources that he has found along the way. Phil and I initially did this interview for the Changing Scripts YouTube channel but it felt like too long of an experience for a video. It felt like a podcast. So here we are. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 31 May 2019 | What's it like for this German expat living in India? | 01:34:23 | |
In the podcast episode we chat with Tatjana, in her words “a German married to an Indian-Chinese - or Chinese-Indian depending on the mood of the day”. Tatjana grew up wanting to live in different countries, so she went into Hospitality in order to do so. Of course, at the same time she read voraciously. In fact, while living in Dubai, one of the six cities she has called home thus far, she met her husband. Just before she moved to India to be with him she started reading the works of Indian Author Chetan Bhagat. And thus began her bookjucation of India and Indian culture. I was fortunate enough to sit down with Tatjana in my home in Shanghai and chat about some of Chetan’s books that had an impact on her life in India. We also dig into her bookology, her favorite books and places to read them and so much more. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 04 Sep 2018 | Reflections: Capturing images in a year of Hong Kong adjustment with Photographer Thomas Sandfield | 01:43:52 | |
Can you imagine taking 35,000 photos in one year? Photographer Thomas Sandfield did this his first year in Hong Kong. Join us on this Expat Rewind show for a flashback to this first year as an expat for Thomas and all the flicker fun he had. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 17 Nov 2018 | Language: From Mandarin Chinese to English in China and the U.S. with PhD Candidate Ziwei | 01:01:38 | |
Ziwei is originally from China’s. He's hands down one of the most intelligent, motivated, and hard working people I have ever known. We met in a Natural Language Processing class (taught by Sowmya, guest on the Virtual Expat Podcast in Iowa State University’s PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology Program. In this conversation we talk about his experiences learning Mandarin Chinese and English as a child. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 16 Jul 2018 | Language: Cantonese Feels Like Home for Liv In The Shoe | 01:33:19 | |
Liv is in an interesting language experience right now. She grew in New York City using Cantonese with her Southern Chinese mother and some Mandarin Chinese with her Taiwanese father. She then picked up Spanish and English in her diverse NYC environment. She has traveled extensively and has learned a few more languages along the way. But it is now, while living and working in Shanghai, China, that she is faced with a myriad of language AND cultural obstacles that she feels the most challenged by. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 24 Dec 2020 | The Language of Music with Damon Castillo | 00:34:23 | |
This episode is really special for me. Last month for NaPodPoMo I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Damon Castillo for this episode. Yes, THE Damon Castillo of the Mess of Me album that we've been using for the past 2 years in all of the Geopats Podcast Network shows. We talk about the longevity of the Damon Castillo Band, his geopatness, my favorite song on the Mess of Me Album (Saint Cecilia), his recording studio in San Luis Obispo, what music he listens to and some creative struggles. In short, we cover the elements that make up the language of music, lovely, lovely music. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 18 Sep 2018 | Language: Mandarin Chinese Learning As a Lifelong Relationship with Eric Olander of the China in Africa Podcast (1 of 2) | 00:53:00 | |
Eric Olander, co-host of the China in Africa Podcast: https://chinaafrica-podcast.com/ (https://chinaafrica-podcast.com/), has been studying and using the Mandarin Chinese language for over 30 years. With this linguistic longevity comes language wisdom, a realistic perspective and sensible tools to give those of us studying the language a boost. 🤸🏽Music from | |||
| 26 Nov 2018 | Reflections: Hangzhou, China Through The First Year Eyes Of American Hannah Lund | 01:51:47 | |
This week we expat chat with Hannah Lund, who is magnetic, funny and thinky. Her geographic trajectory includes her home state of Minnesota and a quiet town in Iowa in the U.S., Paris, France and Hangzhou, China. In 2012 it was a mystical story involving a character called Madame White Snake, set in Hangzhou, which was the inspiration for this move to China but Hannah soon found out there were so many more unexpected surprises that would come from this experience. 🤸🏽Music from | |||