Marco Polo Project offered an original take on language learning, inadvertently. In France, where I was educated, language learning is omnipresent, and widely understood to be about intellectual self-development. From Middle School onwards, I was trained in classical philology – or reflective translation exercises.
Read MoreMarco Polo Project was born in Tianjin, on a beautiful night of insomnia, in December 2010. Earlier that year, I passed the second level of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, and received a scholarship to spend three weeks in Tianjin. It was my first time attending formal education in Chinese. On day one, I learned that Chinese people like dragons and the colour red.
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