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Reflections: Reaching Back to 1st Year Expat Shanghai, China Via a Blog with Shannon Martin of Two Who Travel (2 of 2)

06/19/18 • 34 min

Did you blog your way through your first experiences in a new place? Shannon Martin does this. She is an American who has lived in Shanghai, China for 6 years. In this two part interview she shares her first impressions of China via a blog post she wrote in 2012 with her current life in Shanghai. Shannon brings up many nuanced aspects of daily life in Shanghai that often get overlooked like personal space differences, cartoon patterned bed sheets, books, quiet places and more.

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Previous Episode

What did this American think of Shanghai, China at first and did it change? (1 of 2)

Did you blog your way through your first experiences in a new place? Our guest in this and the next episode, Shannon Martin does this. And she did this when she first moved to China and reacted to the pajama wearing and other differences that she now looks back on so differently.

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Language: German & Chinese Languages in Shanghai with Bookish YouTuber Angie Dumas

In this episode we chat with Angie, Creator of T(h)ree of Books YouTube channel is from Germany. She had a few languages under her belt before moving to Shanghai, China and studying Mandarin Chinese. Angie decided to take the time to study Mandarin Chinese in a classroom setting the first few months she was in the city and that is what our conversation revolves around. I have been curious about Chinese language classes in China so I had questions!

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Key Frame Audio (more recent eps) :https://keyframeaudio.com/

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