Jared Patel, a Puerto Rican-Indian from New York, discusses his connection to Spanish and Gujarati, why he dedicated himself to learning Mandarin and immersing himself in Chinese culture, his experience studying abroad in China, and how this unique language journey has affected his familial relationships and personal identity.

Boying Tang was born in China, raised in NYC’s Chinatown, and mainly grew up on Chinese media, including Mandarin-language games and TV shows.

She shares how her experience living in that neighborhood and the influence of Chinese media affected her cultural identity and perception of Asian American media representation at large. She also dives into the nuances of learning Mandarin, going to Chinese school, and her preferences on communicating between Mandarin and English.

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Cristina Hain takes a break from traveling around the world to (once again) be a guest on a Guru (and Alejandra) podcast! As a German-Filipino woman, Cristina talks about how her multicultural upbringing affected her language journey.

While she mainly speaks about her experience with German and living in Berlin for a summer, she also shares why she bounced between learning German, Spanish, and Tagalog throughout her life and why she chose to pursue a linguistics minor in college.

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