SLV | Episode 53 | Movies, Live Streams, ASMR, and Wandering the Streets of Beijing

Episode 53!

Saw Dead to Rights (南京照相馆). Heartbreaking. Lots of people die. About the Japanese invasion of Nanjing and how the atrocities were documented. During the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, postman A Chang posed as a photo developer, helping Japanese forces while secretly sheltering Chinese refugees. He later risked his life evacuating them and revealing evidence of the atrocities.

-One interesting point made: one reason why the Chinese couldn’t assemble a cohesive defense against the Japanese was because of their own language barrier - the north and south didn’t speak the same language

Live streams a go go - both got cut short and reminded me why it’s tough to do this.

Australian vids uploaded and ready to go, a couple to go and then we’ll be done. It was an experiment in travel vlogging and I see how it should change going forward. Spent much of the morning working on the Chinese subtitles for one of the videos!

And Idioms and Natural Conversation! How to rephrase what you want to say, those age old cliches.

Common Idioms: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EkjD8tO5xRtFJWZY8mxmYeQzoFtmAJ0jS6YwxWPnGAE/edit?usp=sharing

Everyday Conversations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uDukFfxaxaYiofNiOt9DG76YWx3N9QoU0NTz1614gxg/edit?usp=sharing

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20PWgGy5ba0

And some questions answered!

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Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction and Podcast Overview

01:07 Learning Mandarin and Russian

02:34 Discussing the Movie 'Dead to Rights'

16:25 Live Streaming Challenges

20:12 Upcoming Video Projects

23:37 English Corner: Idioms and Natural Conversation

31:04 IELTS Preparation Tips

39:20 Conclusion and Contact Information