And at the same time, I walked into Barnes and Noble and I found this book called Memory Craft by Lynne Swan. So we began sort of the process of integration. So there’s just a huge difference having someone who’s a native Chinese speaker being able to talk to the China team. Like, this is how you should approach it. And there was other things, too, that he was able to bring up just culturally. Night and day difference, they were just cutting through the ambiguity because he could speak the language. And so we would have conversations where we would be just trying to explain some topic for about five minutes and then this guy would just… We wouldn’t be making any headway and this guy would just pop in, speak for like 15, 20 seconds in Chinese and then the other engineers in China are like, “好的” They’d understand completely. Getting really into it was very difficult.īut one of the engineers on my team is a native Chinese speaker. We would have conversations and just conveying very technical topics, like how do you write high quality code? This code is not clean, this part of the section is not architected properly. So we’ve been making a big effort to integrate the software engineers from China into our software team. ![]() And we’ve got a lot of engineering talent in China. And we have engineering teams throughout the world. So one of them was, so I work for a company that makes 3D printers, I’m the head of software. And a couple of things happened at the same time. So fast forward, I think it’s been like six, seven years since then, three or four years out of college now. So I always had them in my back pocket and I always thought they were pretty cool, but I didn’t do much with them. So I switched to engineering and I really did not find any applications for these sort of memory techniques beyond sort of parlor tricks once I had gone the engineering route. And at the time, I was a pre-med major, so I tried to find something practical to apply this to and I applied it to learning mitosis, meiosis, Krebs cycle, all that.īut it turned out that pre-med and me do not get along. I read the book Moonwalking With Einstein and I got really into memorizing decks of cards, memorizing long digit numbers, all that stuff. So I have been interested in memory athletics, memory techniques for a long time, like since freshman year of college. Well, there’s kind of a long story to this. But before we get into anything specific to Mandarin Blueprint, what made you want to start learning Chinese in the first place, Faraz? ![]() I’m here with Faraz and Faraz has kindly agreed to do a case study with us about his experiences with Mandarin Blueprint. Am I pronouncing that correct correctly? Is it Faraz?Īwesome. Welcome back to the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast.
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