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. There are countless helpful and not so helpful posts about how to learn a foreign language so I will try to offer a new perspective based on my experience learning Mandarin and teaching English to 300+ Chinese students. Some people have natural advantages when it comes to learning languages: people who already are bilingualContinue reading “How to speak a foreign language fluently”

TLDR: I went to China because I was curious about how this country had pulled hundreds of millions of people out of poverty within one generation and I wanted to be involved in leading similar change for my own motherland. Acknowledging my privilege I attended an all-boys Jesuit high school, arguably one of the greatestContinue reading “Why I moved from Zimbabwe to China”