270 - Nature in Chinese with ShaoLan & Stef Roberts at Stef Roberts Motion Design & Illustration

Today “nature” is the Chinese word for the day and you can learn it with Stef Roberts, animator and popular blogger who shares about his amazing lifestyle appreciating nature through living in the forest. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

Will Knight is the senior editor of world-leading university MIT’s “Technology Review.” He gets to see new technologies before the rest of the world. In this episode, you can find out how to say “automation” and “automatic” in Chinese. These words are super useful in everyday life, listen in to find out why. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

Learn to say “winner” in Chinese! Today’s guest is the bestselling author of the book “Play Bigger,” Kevin Maney. Find out about his fascinating research and how playing bigger can help your business in a world where the “winner takes all.” ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

Find out how to say “law” in Chinese and why the original meaning of the words are important in Chinese culture in this fascinating episode with special guest Adam Foss and ShaoLan. Adam is a former US Prosecutor and has some valuable insights into the way our legal system can be changed to help improve our society. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

In this fascinating episode, Isaac Lidsky calls in to talk to ShaoLan about how to say “to see” in Chinese. His book “Eyes Wide Open” talks about how we need real “vision” to shape the world we live in and not just accept what we see to be the reality around us. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

Founding Director of MIT Integrated Design and Management Matthew Kressy learns the words for “turn” and “left and right” in Chinese. Very useful if you ever take a taxi in China but can not remember the address of where you need to go! ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

Curator of TED’s speeches Bruno Giussani shares extensively with ShaoLan about how eloquence is far more than the words that we say. He also learns the word for “eloquence” in Chinese. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

These days with all the new digital media and communication technology, it's as important as ever to be able to meet face-to-face. This is also still a huge part of Chinese culture, so learn how to say “face to face” in Chinese in this episode with ShaoLan TED resident and Podcast host Susan Bird. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

Creator of Moshi Monsters Michael Acton Smith learns the word in Chinese for “monsters” with Chineasy creator ShaoLan. Listen in and discover how to distinguish between cute monsters and evil monsters. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

Discover the word for “forest” in Chinese and what its significance is in Chinese culture along with today’s special guest Stef Roberts. Stef is an award-winning animator who has produced animations for top companies such as Coke, Adidas and of course, Chineasy. He has a truly surprising lifestyle. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App, is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.