Ever get frustrated with how little of the language in your textbooks can be used in real life conversations? Davey, Founder of Popcorn Club in Shanghai, China isn’t. Why not? Because he is too busy enjoying his conversations to care. I asked Davey how he keeps conversations going and here are his top 3 tips for doing so.  ​

Geopats Podcast: 
Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn  & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. Where to find the Geopats Podcast website, Apple Podcasts page, subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS. Check out all of our projects: https://stephfuccio.com/
Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,https://www.damoncastillo.com from their "Mess of Me" album


This episode was created with:
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-Davey’s messages were recorded in Wechat and transferred over with Voice Exporter for Wechat, the best $2.99 I ever spent online: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playwfd.wxvexporter&hl=en
-Auphonic,free online leveling software
- Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)
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How sound sensitive are you? Our guest today, Phoebe, grew up with Mandarin Chinese but has learned a myriad of languages including English, Finnish, German & more.

But her sound talent goes far beyond languages into sound and voice research in her current PhD life in Ireland. She is currently researching the connection between recorded voices and listeners’ emotional responses to them. This sensitivity and Phoebe’s general curiosity touch every aspect of language that we discuss in this conversation. 

Note: There are some construction noises, ironically, in this conversation. They do NOT last the entire time, so hang in there. ​

​Promo Spots: 
(31:03) Tanya Crossman, “Misunderstood: The Impact Of Growing Up Overseas In The 21st Century” (her book on TCKs): https://misunderstood-book.com/
(57:09) Angry Ducky, Duck In Games Podcast, https://podtail.com/no/podcast/duck-in-games/

Links:
-Pia’s episode on Geopats: https://www.stephfuccio.com/geopats-podcast/24-finland-to-china-back-blogging-with-pia-of-pian-shanghai
-Lotta’s episode on Geopats: https://www.stephfuccio.com/geopats-podcast/46-cultural-flexibility-in-mandarin-chinese-finnish-with-lotta
-24 hour bookstore, https://www.sohu.com/a/214275523_99955579
-Jeremy Tiang’s episode on Geopats: 
https://www.stephfuccio.com/geopats-podcast/20-language-identity-translation-with-writer-translator-global-linguistic-soul-jeremy-tiang
-Elena Cotos, ISU University, Moves and Steps in Writing Computer Program:
 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pCuiXyQAAAAJ&hl=en

Geopats Podcast: 
Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn  & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. Where to find the Geopats Podcast website, Apple Podcasts page, subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS. Check out all of our projects: https://stephfuccio.com/
Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,https://www.damoncastillo.com from their "Mess of Me" album

​This episode was created with:
-Both mics were Samson Q2U  with a Focusrite 2i2, a 2 microphone mixer, https://amzn.to/2ZqbuRu
-Auphonic,free online leveling software
- Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)
- Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free,https://www.podbean.com/virtualexpats

Has music ever soothed your soul and made you feel connected again? Yes, me too. And it sounds like the same happened to James when he was an expat for well over a decade. He is back in his home country now so his perspective on his time in the Czech Republic and China are especially poignant. As is the origin story for his intensely researched and impressively sounding podcast, the Centuries of Sound. ​

James Errington’s Info: 
-Centuries of sound podcast https://centuriesofsound.com/
 -Socials:  https://twitter.com/weejay
 -Main blog (not actively updating): https://haonowshaokao.com/

Promo Spots: 
(14:09) Seek Road, Eva Yoo, seekroad.co (not .com): http://seekroad.co/
(14:41) How China Works, Brendan Davis: https://www.howchinaworkspodcast.com/s

​Links:
-Last night a dj killed my dog: https://www.discogs.com/Mr-Oizo-Last-Night-A-DJ-Killed-My-Dog/release/49277
(The episode that inspired Centuries of Sound Podcast: 
http://lastnightadjkilledmydog.libsyn.com/last-night-a-dj-killed-my-dog-003-the-1930s)
-Prague Compass/ Prague Net: http://www.praguenet.com/compass/
-Expats.cz: https://www.expats.cz/
-The Prague Pill: http://www.bigmag.cz/?page=casopis&id=166&lang=en
-Anonymouse: http://anonymouse.org/
-Food Tube (2006): https://foodtube.livejournal.com/
(His original livejournal: https://weejay.livejournal.com/)
-Chinese names map: https://haonowshaokao.com/2013/04/25/chinese-map-of-europe/
-University of Santa Barbara audio archives: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
-You Must Remember This Podcast: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/
-China Jedi Podcast (Juihai): https://chinajedi.com/
-Sinica Podcast: https://supchina.com/series/sinica/
-The China History Podcast: https://chinahistorypodcast.libsyn.com/
-Craig Kiessling’s extensive China related podcast list on Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/lists/China-Today-107Zzr2hdw

Geopats Podcast: 
Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn  & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. Where to find theGeopats Podcast website, Apple Podcasts page, subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS. Check out all of our projects:https://stephfuccio.com/
Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,https://www.damoncastillo.com . The song in this eipsode if “Mess Of Me” from the "Mess of Me" album

This episode was created with:
-Steph’s mic is aSamson Q2U
-Auphonic,free online leveling software
- Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)
- Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free,https://www.podbean.com/virtualexpats

In this Changing Scripts podcast episode we chat with Lotta, a Finnish college student who lived in Shanghai, China between High School and University. During part of that time she took intensive Chinese language courses. Lotta has continued with her Chinese language learning even after returning to Finland by using TV shows and other media until she can take more language classes at her university.
Lotta shares with us her intensive Mandarin Chinese classroom experience in Shanghai, how she used the language outside of the classroom and how Mandarin Chinese compares to the handful of other languages she has learned and used in her life thus far. Lotta’s mother, Pia, was a guest on the Expat Rewind Podcast last year, where shared her first impressions of Shanghai via a blog post she wrote after moving here from Finland. Hi Pia!

Lotta’s socials:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com

LINKS:
-Meteor Garden (TV show): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Garden_(2018_TV_series)
-Slow Chinese: https://www.slow-chinese.com/
-Bear Talk: https://www.beartalking.com/podcast Chinese tech podcast

Promo Spots:
(25:15) Matthew Boyle at Language Card Games, https://languagecardgames.co

Geopats Podcast: 
Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn  & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. Where to find the Geopats Podcast website, Apple Podcasts page, subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS. Check out all of our projects: https://stephfuccio.com/
Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,https://www.damoncastillo.com from their "Mess of Me" album
This episode was created with:
-Steph's mic: Both mics were Samson Q2U  
​-Auphonic,free online leveling software
- Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)
- Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free,https://www.podbean.com/virtualexpats

Pia and her family just recently left Shanghai, China after living here for two years. I have met some active expats in my life but Pia takes the cake on really living life the fullest. She explored China, worked and volunteered locally, all while raising two intelligent and worldly daughters. How did moving to the U.S. a few years ago help her to make this transition to living in China? Come have a listen to the answer to that question and more as we explore a blog of hers from this time period.  

Links: 
-BloPia’s blog entry in Finnish

Geopats Podcast: 
Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn  & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. Where to find the Geopats Podcast website, Apple Podcasts page, subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS. Check out all of our projects: https://stephfuccio.com/
Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,https://www.damoncastillo.com from their "Mess of Me" album
This episode was created with:
-Both mics were Samson Q2U  with a Focusrite 2i2, a 2 microphone mixer, https://amzn.to/2ZqbuRu
-Auphonic,free online leveling software
- Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)
- Podbean hosting site: Get 1 month free,https://www.podbean.com/virtualexpats

As a Writer, Translator and Playright; words are what Jeremy Tiang uses to share his ideas about the world and all of its ambiguity. In his prose he addresses issues of identity, culture, and the boundaries of what we think these things mean. His upbringing in Singapore was multicultural and yet it was not. So much so that when asked what his first language is he replies, “It is complicated” and it is easy to see why.

​Singapore, very much like Jeremy and very much like most curious, discerning people such as yourself (yes, listeners, I am talking about you), is in a state of constant change. This change includes how it shares itself with the world and Jeremy plays a part in how we see both Singapore and its people, especially, if I understand it right, those who are not often portrayed in the national narrative. In this podcast episode, we primarily dig into Jeremy’s language experiences from early childhood to the present day. But those cultural tones are impossible to remove from language, so we did not even try.  ​

Jeremy's Info:
Jeremy’s Twitter Account
Cedilla & Co, his Translation Collective

Links:
-New Yorker article on Hyperpolyglots
-Omniglot website (learn about any language)
-Pomodoro Method
-Ode to Joy Shanghai TV show
-Crazy Rich Asians

Geopats Podcast: 
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Music courtesy of Damon Castillo,https://www.damoncastillo.com from their "Mess of Me" album


This episode was created with:
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-Auphonic,free online leveling software
- Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)
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This week we expat chat with Xing Zhao, a Chinese Writer, Translator and former expat in Edinburgh, Scotland. Xing shares with us a blog post, Kapa Zhou, that he wrote during his first year studying in Scotland. He goes on to reflect on how his memories of that time period and how they are not fully represented in the blog entry. Xing also shared a post he wrote on the Chinese language version of this blog as advice to other international students. As someone who has taught international students both in Asia and in my passport country of the U.S, this was interesting insight to get first hand indeed.  

A special thank you goes out to Rebeca Kanthor, who introduced Xing and I. 
Where to find Expat Rewind Podcast:
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Xing’s Info:
Website: https://kapazhao.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kapazhao/
Show Links: 
-The Festival (movie), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468736/
Be a guest: Share your blog, Twitter/Instagram/Facebook feed, or any other artifact from your 1st year in a new country
Would love to hear from you!
Socials:Twitter,Instagram,LinkedIn, &Speakpipe (leave a voice message)
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Have your expectations about a place ever gotten you into trouble? American expat Evan was kind enough to be our first guest on the Expat Rewind show back in 2017. He shared a group email that he wrote to his family and friends back home with us.
However, after that episode, Expat Rewind expanded and I started to interview the guests. But his episode remained the only one without an interview portion. Since we are at the end of the Geopats Podcast rebranding process I thought it made sense to go back and reflect on his reflection, via an interview. So, this episode includes his original recording from 2017 AND at 13:51 our recent interview about his email and his recording. I have not reedited the original episode much because I think the contrast in many aspects of the project are interesting in and of themselves. I hope you enjoy this double reflection of someone who is near and dear to me. Oh, did I mention that Evan is also my dear husband?  

Links:
-Gepik Program: https://www.korvia.com/gepik-gyeonggi-english-program-in-korea/
-Confucian Philosophy: https://asiasociety.org/education/confucianism
-Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236125-invisible-monsters
-shoganai: Japanese word for "it can't be helped": https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/shoganai
-Stress definition (this is not the exact meme I saw but it's the same quote):
https://me.me/i/what-is-stress-its-the-gap-between-our-expectation-4864189
Geopats Podcast: Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn  & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. Where to find the Geopats Podcast website, Apple Podcasts page, subscribe on : iOS , Android devices, RSS. Check out all of our projects: https://stephfuccio.com/
This episode was created with:
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-Auphonic,free online leveling software
- Producer, Editor, & Host: Stephanie (Gmail: stephfuccio or WeChat: stephfuccio)
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