In this episode, I interview Alex Barker, an American consultant about his experience learning Chinese Listen to this episode to find out: - How Alex got interested in learning Chinese in America - His experience in an American college class learning Chinese - Why he didn't make as much progress in Chinese as he wanted to - His experience taking a university class in Chinese in Taiwan - His experience working as an intern at the American Chamber of Commerce - Why he found it useful to have Mandarin ability on his resume - Why he feels there are multiple levels of Mandarin ability - His experience with personal relationships that only use Chinese - What he would do differently if he had to study Chinese again - Why he would encourage students in school to choose Chinese as a second language - What advice he would give to students learning Chinese in a non Chinese speaking area - How he recommends people learn colloquial Chinese - What threw him off about speaking Chinese in Taiwan ve...