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Jody
Yang Chen
CarlHello and welcome to American Cafe.  My name is Jody!  Hey, Yang Chen, who's going to join us today on American Cafe?
I have no idea.
Oh, my gosh!
Well, I started a long time ago.  First learned a little bit when I was in college.  But I probably picked up most of it when I was overseas in Taiwan and also Mainland China for about three years total.  Started learning, really learning, when I was in Taiwan.
Actually I started studying Chinese when I arrived in China. I don't have Chinese under my belt before that time, Yang Chen. So I arrived in Shanghai when I was 21 years old, not speaking any Chinese. And I arrived at the train station at 3 o'clock in the morning surrounded by people who did not speak my language.  And I can tell you it was a little frightening.  So, I did the only thing I knew what to do ... I sang a song, "Rain drops keep falling on my head."  And everyone started laughing and it made the situation better.  Actually, Carl said that he began studying in college while he was in the United States. I did not do that.  I got a scholarship to leave the country and go to China and study and I took advantage of it.  I really wanted to go abroad to study and China seemed like the most foreign place on the planet.
Two of the most challenging things when you study Chinese, in particular, are the tones and the characters.  I think that's just extremely difficult.  And it was frustrating to be teaching ... teaching kindergarten students and realizing that sometimes their reading was much better than mine.