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EP#01 Mandarin Podcast For ABCs By An ABC 
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Meet your American-Born Taiwanese (ABT) host, Angela Lin. In this podcast premiere episode, Angela uses Mandarin to explain what you can...

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EP#02 U.S. Culture Shocks As A Taiwanese Immigrant ft. Crystal Hsia


Los Angeles-based Crystal Hsia, a Taiwanese born and raised Mandarin teacher, joins us as our first guest on the podcast!

In this episode,...

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EP#03 Reverse Culture Shocks As A Taiwanese Immigrant ft. Crystal Hsia


Crystal Hsia (an LA-based Taiwanese born and raised Mandarin teacher) joins us again to cover the second half of our conversation around...

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EP#04 Dating Culture in Taiwan vs. the US ft. Jane Liu


In this episode, we're joined by Angela's "Real You Mandarin: Beginnings" course co-creator and Taiwan-based Mandarin teacher, Jane Liu....

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EP#05 Taboo Topics & Common Mistakes ABCs Make in Mandarin ft. Jane Liu


We're back with Angela's "Real You Mandarin: Beginnings" course co-creator and Taiwan-based Mandarin teacher, Jane Liu - this time,...

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EP#06 Third Culture Exploration ft. Isy


Meet Isy, a Hong Kong-based online Mandarin/English tutor and mother of two who appears on the surface to be the classic poster child for...

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EP#07 Cross-Cultural Relationships ft. Gene Hsu


Gene Hsu is a fellow American-Born Chinese (ABC) who had a previous career in cross-cultural communication & management, teaching...

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EP#08 New Self-Expression Course Launch ft. Crystal Hsia


In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, we're launching a brand new course called"Real You Mandarin: Self-Expression," in collaboration...

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EP#09 AAPI Heritage Month From A Taiwanese Immigrant POV ft. Crystal Hsia


Does Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month mean much to first-generation Asian immigrants who immigrated to the U.S. as...

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EP#10 Interpersonal Relationships ft. Crystal Hsia


A lot of us have started finessing our communication skills in our 20s and 30s as we work through our own self-growth in the language...

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EP#11 Building Community in the Midwest & Beyond ft. Kelly Mosa


Kelly Mosa is a Taiwanese content creator (recently naturalized US citizen!) who shares both funny and heartwarming content about her...

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EP#12 Fertility & Parenting ft. Crystal Hsia


Whether you're already a parent or on your journey towards becoming one, this is one of the most in-demand topics we've heard from both...

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EP#13 Multilingual Nomad Life ft. Zhifei Zhang


Zhifei is the Creator of @xiaoguachinese , a popular Mandarin teaching platform that focuses on comprehensible input and practical/real...

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EP#14 Immigrating to Asia as an Asian-American


I moved to Japan y'all! Sorry for the delay in episodes recently... it's been a lot prepping for this new major life chapter.

In this solo...

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EP#15 Camping in Taiwan vs. in the West ft. Jane Liu


Frequent guest and Real You Mandarin: Beginnings partner teacher Jane Liu is back again, and this time to talk about one of her favorite...

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EP#16 Talking Psychedelics in Mandarin ft. Zhifei Zhang


In a not often spoken about topic in Mandarin, we're joined again by @xiaoguachinese 's Zhifei where we discuss our respective...

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EP#17 Caring For Aging Parents ft. Crystal Hsia


For many of us in our 30s and beyond, while we've been finding out more about ourselves as adults, another aspect of getting older is...

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EP#18 Tokyo Disney Taught Me Gratitude

Who says growth always has to come through suffering?

Out of all places, I recently learned to practice gratitude, appreciating the...

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EP#19 Self-Growth Journey ft. Crystal Hsia

We're so incredibly proud to announce the release of our final course module "Self-Growth Journey" from our course Real You Mandarin:...

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EP#20 Chinese POV on Psychedelic Therapy ft. Mei Yuan


We received such positive feedback and immense interest from all of you when we had Zhifei on recently for an episode discussing...

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EP#21 Finding Yourself On Sabbatical ft. Tong Zhang


Many of us were raised to believe that success in our careers is the most important thing we can strive for in our lives, so we chug...

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