Entrepreneur, former language teacher in Taiwan, former software engineer in SF/SV, life-long student.
Digital nomads are people whose means of making a living comes from the internet and isn’t connected to living in any particular location. They are the “new rich” Tim Ferriss wrote about in his book, The 4-Hour Workweek. There’s a spectrum of digital nomad work that ranges…
With the right approach, you can do it easily in a single day.
When I first started taking Chinese classes at the Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, I already knew pinyin… or at least I thought I did. I had…
Let’s face it. Most people spend a lot of money on foreign languages either directly or through their public schools and the results aren’t usually that great unless you’re an outlier like a northern European. If you start learning very early, your country…
There are two major forms of Chinese characters used in the world today — traditional and simplified (or three if you count Japanese). Most Chinese learners very reasonably decide to learn only the character set…
I’ve just finished going through the Michel Thomas Total Spanish audio course. It’s eight CDs in total and it assumes the listener is a complete beginner.