Learning Chinese, Speaking English!? (5/5)
- Ondy Ho
- May 10, 2019
- 2 min read
This ... is what video with no effect looks like, authenticity.
This time we're doing something new! And it explains both how bad I'm bad with tech and the delay of the post on 5/5 (now 10th).
The following is an interview with a Korean woman in Taiwan in regards of her language learning. It is because we (Korean people and ours) share similarity in this particular aspect, learning English since childhood and then Chinese while we do the same with English and then perhaps Japanese or Korean later. I've listed some questions below but they may not appear to be in order or exact. It is such because we had the first "one-take" video but it was too much to upload. The second one is much a like the first one but since we improvise a lot, different questions and answers would come up.
Questions regarding the learner:
What's your mother tongue? How many languages can you speak and how do you measure the levels you are in those languages?
What makes you choose Chinese over other languages? Did you think it was easier, more spoken or other reasons?
How long have you been learning or studying Chinese? Did you do so when you were in Korea or other countries?
How do you learn/study Chinese? Do language exchanges help? How can one start? What's there to be mindful of?
What other suggestions would you give to any foreigners learning Chinese?
Questions regarding language:
How difficult is Chinese comparing with English? Do you use the same methods in learning? What's the hardest part in the process?
Is it true that as a foreigner "you don't need to know how to write but just speak"?
Do you agree that "culture plays a big role in learning a language"? How do you think about that in Chinese learning? (i.e. in English we tend to become more open-minded)
Do you think you become influenced by Chinese language? What is it?
It's common for English learners in Taiwan to complain that "there's no one around that speaks English". Where do you use Chinese and do you think you have to have a "Chinese speaking environment" to learn it?
As always, we hope this helps, either as motivation that you could become us (both non-native English speakers) or answer questions that you have.
No animals were harmed during the making of this video.
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