Ep 17: Taylor: Languages as Family Members

In the Changing Scripts podcast episode, we talk to Taylor, an American Marketing Professional who grew up with a strong language learning curiosity. Mandarin Chinese was one of her first language loves and one that she has kept in contact with. I am using people analogies  because Taylor used them in the interview and it is simply a brilliant way to see the time, energy and commitment that it takes not only to learn a language but to maintain it over the years as well. We also talked about her other language encounters, food that came with the languages she learned, her favorite language learning YouTube channels and so much language geeky more. Taylor was one of the first people I met on Twitter in the very supportive #Chinese language learning world and I am forever grateful for her encouragement. Thanks Taylor!  

In accompanying Changing Scripts YouTUBE video I dive deeper into two aspects of Taylor’s interview:

1. Her languages as family member analogy and how it relates to my own language learning

2. Her desire to learn Ancient Chinese Literature and my own desire to learn slangish modern Mandarin Chinese so I can read social media posts online. I love how different and personal language learning can be and how people with such different goals can still learn from each other in the process.

Podcast LINKS:

-National Geographics Magazine

-Narcos Netflix show

-Stealing Freedom book

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OERNM4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

-KemushiChan ロレッタ(YouTube)

-Records of the Grand Historian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_the_Grand_Historian

-Collocation and colligation, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/colligation

And lexical bundles, http://sdhanel.com/corpuslinguitics/lexicalbundles.html

-Academic who did the Chinese collocations study and presetntation at Iowa, FIND

http://blclab.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/JNL10.pdf

-Viki

https://www.google.com/search?q=viki+rakuten&oq=viki+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.3982j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

-Amanda Tastes (NOT Amanda Eats),

https://www.youtube.com/user/amandaslittlekitchen

-Mongolian language script, http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mongolian.htm

-Rice dish persian; https://www.unicornsinthekitchen.com/persian-savory-saffron-cake-tahchin/

-Sunflower Splendor

https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Splendor-Thousand-Chinese-Midland/dp/0253206073

-Zhihu: (like Quora but in Chinese)

https://www.zhihu.com/signup?next=%2F

-Chairman’s Bao Chinese reader site: https://www.thechairmansbao.com/

-Yu Hua: Author, “To Live”  and “Brothers” (two novels Taylor recommends)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334971.To_Live

-San Mao; author who wrote many travel oriented novels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmao_(author)

-Mo Yan (Author, Taylor recommends NOT to read it until years after learning about the language and culture due to the cultural and linguistic density of his books. )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Yan

-HSK 3 test Changing Scripts YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luOMPrZZJw&t=3s

-Coursera HSK courses, https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=hsk

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