Mark Salzman / Iron and Silk 101-108 / Learn English 學英文

2023 04 08

___________ Do you want to learn Traditional Chinese / Mandarin?

V. 2023 04 08

I was born and raised in Taiwan,

I operate Traditional Chinese fine,

since I had a higher than the average Chinese version of SAT back in Taiwan for my college entrance exam, along with similar test results in my grade school days,

thus I have good confidence to teach Traditional Chinese.

On 2023 04 07,
I finished doing Textquitling on River Town,
a book that was published in 2000 by Peter Hessler,

the book went onto New York Times’ Notable Book list,

that book also was granded an Kirimoto award in 2008.

At the end of the recommendation about China books that Peter Hessler recommended,
I surprisingly discovered that he recommended Iron and Silk,
which was published in 1986,
which was ALSO a New York Times’ bestseller.

It happened that I also did read it sometimes in 2005

Then I realized that there might be some characters such as Mark Salzman around,
who are eager to learn Traditional Chinese,
who will be happy to learn how to write the characters,
push themselves up above ordering wonton or Zhuozongtang chicken in Chinese restaurants,
(by the way,
zhuozong chicken was invented by a Taiwanese immigrant).

Thus I’m offering my Traditional Chinese training to whoever has the characters like Mark Joseph Salzman in the regard of language learning,
not limited to Traidtional Chinese,
but also extending to the languages of Italian and French and German, as a studying partner.

My current level of Italian and French is low, yet I can start to read something out of Wikipedia;
I have not really started with German yet.

However,
At my 30’s, when I first moved to United States, I barely spoke a word in English other than YES and NO,

I also never had teh luxuries to attend fancy schools such as Stanford or Berkeley,
I merely possess high school equivalent degree,
I also never had the opportunities to work with people from those fancy schools.

I basically studied on my own to warm through the linguistic world,
without talents, but diligence and some kind talks from surrounding people who were willing to chat with me.

What I’m trying to say here is:
Since I know how to advance a foreign language with limited help,
I suppose I’m potent to help you with your Traditaional Chinese / Italian / French / German studying.

Here is a sample of my English book reciting recording.

Youtube raided my account in 2022 Oct,
so that you won’t be able to hear my other “normal” talks in English when I described about the 180 Carl owners who violated the Department Building Inspection rules in 2013 and how the downstairs neighbor atrociously denied my access to the walkway window for fresh air to flush out their dog Stanley (may God bless his soul, I take he might have gone to see the Grand Dio by now) that caused my congenital asthmatic condition.
Kate DiCamillo Magician Elephant chapter 01 04 04

This is the matching text that I did textquitling with.
[101 KateDiCamillo MagicianElephant 101.pdf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z-t4xZsJZWPoQVl8LxYjOE_7GiVSmjWu/view?usp=share_link)

I’m in my late 50’s and my general health is not golden, thus I prefer to meet with people who have a sweet compostion similar to Mark Salzman’s.

If you are like him,
would like to learn Traditionol Chinese along with it’s writing system,

I’d like to offer my help.

Or if just want to review Iron and Silk with me,
that’s fine too.

BTW,
I mainly use emails to communicate,

I might be too senior for you
if you insist on using the facebook messenger type short message tool (whatsapp or wechat or telegram or discourse, or facetime, etc…).

Dio ti benedica,

Dalla Chiessa di Vissi D’Arte