An American Expat Learns Mandarin Through Tea Shops and Real Conversations: S2E4

from Geopats Abroad - Expat Life, Living Abroad & Travel Stories · host Stephanie Fuccio

Send us Fan MailIn 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.Original publication date: December 6, 2018More: https://linktr.ee/stephfuccio

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Send us Fan Mail 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. Original publication date: December 6, 2018 More: https://linktr.ee/stephfuccio

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