Kung Fu: My experience learning about it in a Chinese farming village (& favourite language blog vote request!) [Click "CC" to activate subtitles in either English or in Chinese simplified/traditional.
Those in China without a VPN can watch it on Youku] After getting a train over 2,000km through China, chatting with random people and seeing pandas, meeting a Buddhist monk, and even climbing a mountainside staircase to a Buddhist temple to try and find a guru, one of the other experiences I wanted to have while in this country was of course to get exposure to some real Kung Fu!
Fi3M reader Anna and her husband Ilya invited me to come visit a farming village near the city of Haiyang to give me a chance to see a different side of China. There, Master Lin sat down with us, had a great meal prepared for us, and chatted a little about how his dialect differs to standard Mandarin. Next, we went outside and he taught me some basic Kung Fu, which you can see in the video. How to Learn 2,000 Kanji in 3 Months: Mission Possible. Today’s guest post is from John Fotheringham, who blogs at Foreign Language Mastery. I like his take on Language Hacking, so I was happy to share this post he wrote for us! Off you go, John! Your mission, if you choose to accept it Mr. A journey in language learning. Fluent in 3 months.