Shanley’s Mandarin journey began at 14, when her family moved from Pennsylvania to Taiwan for four months. The experience stayed with her, even after a long break from studying.
Now she is back in Mandarin with a much clearer purpose: preparing for Taiwan, improving her grammar, studying traditional characters, watching Taiwanese dramas, and working towards the possibility of a Mandarin-speaking master’s programme.
In this episode, Shanley talks about why Taiwan remains her biggest motivation, how she studies grammar, why dramas help with listening and tone, and why sometimes the best reason to learn a language is simply wanting to go back.
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