TQ 109 Jasmijn from Belgium

Finally I am giving you a new podcast episode! I've been using old Listen and Repeat episodes for over a year, but now I have a Ten Questions episode. When I started the podcast, the original idea was to interview people so that my listeners could hear many different types of accents in English. After a few months I realized that there was a need to help people improve their intonation (similar to accent), so I started making Listen and Repeat podcast episodes. Its been almost a year and a half since I posted a new interview, so newer listeners won't realize that I used to post them often. This interview actually was made back in the fall of 2018, when I was still living in China. I have three interviews on my old laptop that I have never edited and used in my podcast. Here is the first one. The others will come later.

Jasmijn, 26, is from the town of Hasselt, Belgium. At the time she was staying with me (from couchsurfing.org) she had already been traveling in China for two months and was about to go to Vietnam. Listen as she talks about how she studied to become a silversmith and jewelry designer, and about a festival for an alcoholic drink (Genever or Jenever) in her hometown, and about how she visited the Uyuni Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni) in Bolivia. Also listen as I say that I lived in Xi'an, China for two years. That was obviously a slip of the tongue, because I lived in Xi'an for five years.

Here are some words and phrases that you may not know: internship, to work on my technique, coal, grottoes, pottery, porcelain, surrealist painter.