Learn Chinese Insights Podcast

In this episode I interview Derek McCracken, an American who has been living in Taiwan for 7 years. Listen to find out: – What brought Derek to Asia and specifically Taiwan – How he started teaching English, while looking for other opportunities – How he started his first business in Taiwan – How he compares […]

In this episode, I actually interview… myself! Well not, really. I invited CLO user Joe Cooperman to interview me on my motivation for coming to Taiwan and starting this course teaching fellow expats how to speak Mandarin. Listen to find out: – Why Joe uses CLO – What brought me to Taiwan – What problem […]

In Part 2 of this episode, we continue our interview with American businessman Steve Iglehart. Listen to find out: – How he moved on to the skin care market – What his biggest challenge was in this market – The intense process of training salespeople to use his product – How he learned to read […]

Steve Iglehart is an American businessman from San Francisco who has been living in Taiwan for almost 30 years. Listen to this episode to find out: – What made Steve want to learn Chinese – Why he chose to come to Taiwan – His first moments in Taiwan, looking for a Chinese school – Why […]

Keiran is a Canadian living in Taiwan, now working in the bicycle industry. Listen to this episode to find out: – What brought Keiran to Taiwan in the first place – How he began learning Chinese initially – What he didn’t like about his first school – How he found people to practice his Chinese […]

In this episode, I interview Ross Darrell Feingold, an American now working as a senior advisor at the DC International Advisory, a law firm in Taipei, Taiwan. Listen to this episode to find out: – What made Ross focus on learning Mandarin Chinese 20 years ago – What a one year intensive Mandarin learning program in Singapore […]

In this interview, I interview Jon Renzella, an American artist now living in Taichung, Taiwan. Listen to this episode to find out: – What brought Jon to Taiwan in the first place – Why he wanted to live in a place that didn’t speak English – How he began learning Chinese without any formal classes – His […]

In this episode I interview Alex Wagner, who now runs a pizza shop at a local Taiwanese night market. Listen to find out: – What brought Alex to Taiwan in the first place – How he transitioned from teaching to selling pizza – His process starting the business – How the night market business works […]

In this episode, I interview “Bear” – originally from Scandinavia, now working in China. Listen to find out: – What brought him to China in the first place – His initial hardships in China – Why he felt he wasn’t capable of learning Chinese in the beginning – Why he didn’t make progress learning initially, and […]

In this episode, I continue the interview I did with Shaun Bettinson, where he discusses his “I love Taiwan” project. Listen to find out: – How this project got started. – How he launched his initial promotional video – The Project Website – How he was able to promote it – How he won a Guinness […]