tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11586843.post6625797537526732447..comments2023-10-30T20:35:28.251+08:00Comments on Michella Jade Weng 翁郁容 ミシェラ・オング: Advice: marry a European, divorce, remarry, repeatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03523015531601564662noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11586843.post-72133688117788534402009-10-03T23:03:05.119+08:002009-10-03T23:03:05.119+08:00Thanks Mark...
And thanks JCR for saying hello aft...Thanks Mark...<br />And thanks JCR for saying hello after all this time. To answer your questions, I learned a little bit of Mandarin growing up because my parents tried to force us to speak it at home. The extent of my Mandarin while growing up was, "hi Mom and Dad, I'm home. Hungry. Going to take a bath. Delicious. Good night." Then in 7th-9th grade, I was in Taiwan, at international/bilingual schools, and that seemed to help quite a bit. Taiwanese was much more difficult. It was my parents' secret language. Whenever they didn't want us to understand, they'd use Taiwanese. I didn't really learn to speak it until I started practicing with my grandfather when I was in Japan for graduate school. But the extent of that was also, "hi Grandpa, I'm home. Hungry. Going to take a bath. Tasty. Good night." So when I came back to Taiwan and started working for FTV, I knew English best, Japanese second, Mandarin then Taiwanese. (I did an international MBA program in Japan, so my Japanese is really only enough for me to carry on a conversation and go about my daily life in Japan.) It was really tough, both linguistically and journalistically when I started to work for FTV. But it proves that with some passion and a lot of pressure, almost anything is possible. At least that seems the case for me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523015531601564662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11586843.post-82163004673310198252009-09-26T01:37:47.905+08:002009-09-26T01:37:47.905+08:00That was a fascinating dialogue. Uncles are aweso...That was a fascinating dialogue. Uncles are awesome. Good luck finding your European terminator! -_^Markhttp://toshuo.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11586843.post-70990854854550134882009-09-25T21:36:50.306+08:002009-09-25T21:36:50.306+08:00Hi, I've been reading your blog for awhile bec...Hi, I've been reading your blog for awhile because I like some of the insights you make into Taiwan and its journalism. I'm curious about all the languages you know. You grew up in America, so English is a given, and I see you studied abroad in Japan, so that gave you a chance to learn Japanese at least somewhat fluently it seems. But did you learn Taiwanese/Mandarin just from speaking at home? It doesn't seem like that'd be enough to prepare you for a job in journalism in Taiwan, esp. being an anchorAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17945430704057679068noreply@blogger.com