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Geopats: expats and internationals
If you're thinking of living outside of your passport country OR like to learn more about different cultures around the world, welcome. These are conversations that I had with other long term expats about what grounded them in their other places in the world.
Episodes
97 episodes
New Yorker in China writes (replay)
The first year in a new country is always the hardest.Evan did what I did, he took to writing a blog to sort out the think through what he was seeing, experiencing and feeling. In this conversation we revisit an early blog post of his fr...
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Chinese international student in Scotland writes (replay)
Do you have a spiritual home? Xing Zhao does. He's a Chinese Writer, Translator and former international student in Edinburgh, Scotland. Xing shares with us a blog post, Kapa Zhou, that he wrote during his first year studying in Scotland. He go...
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American in South Korea writes (replay)
Have your expectations about a place ever gotten you into trouble? American expat Evan, also known as my husband, was kind enough to be our first guest on the podcast show back in 2017. He shared a group email that he wrote to his f...
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Fitting in, standing out and striving with Stephanie Fuccio
Questions about family can be triggering if the experience was not ideal. This is one of the reasons that Steph's talked about her family in tiny drips here and there but not in depth. But it felt disingenuous to ask other expats to open up abo...
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Expats can go home with Georges
Have your immigrant parents ever visited you in any of your expat places? Georges' parents have and it shifted how he understood their struggles moving from Greece to Canada. We cover a lot more ground on his parents' immigrant story and how it...
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Becoming American together: immigrant parent stories
Have you ever wondered why your immigrant parent(s) didn't prepare you for being a global citizen? Chelsea thought this when she was struggling in her first expat place. Over time she began to understand the distinct difference bet...
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Did growing up with two home cultures prepare Alison Maciejewski expat life?
How much do our immigrant parents impact our adult expat experiences? This is what we're exploring in this conversation with return guest Alison. Alison and I dig into growing up with two unequal cultures in one household, the rac...
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Early podcasting in Spain and the UK with Pilar Orti and Craig Wealand
Language podcaster Craig is from the UK but has been podcasting in Spain for many years. Alternatively business podcaster Pilar has the opposite geographical podcasting experience being from Spain and podcasting from the UK for a long time. ...
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Language: From Teacher To Podcaster | Legendary Interviews: Legendary Language Learner YouTube Channel
This episode is about half of a conversation that Matthew Boyle of Legendary Language Learner YouTube channel and I had about language teaching, content creation and the intersection between the two.
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Coffee: The moral dilema of foam art in Tokyo, Paris, & New York with Yuki of Book Nerds Tokyo
Yuki and I sat down to have this conversation far too long ago. Life has been crazy and, to be honest, I even stopped drinking coffee for awhile. So it felt weird publishing this episode during that time.But things feel a...
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Books: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway with Shannon Martin
In December 2019 my dear friend Shannon Martin and I sat down and recorded an episode about The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. We were so intrigued with the book that we wanted to repeat the process with the more autobiographical vers...
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Online: Social Media As A Home Anchor with Tania of Swahili Secrets
Can social media ground us and make us feel more at peace in this crazy world? This conversation with Tania from Swahili Secrets will present an answer to this question that is not common but very refreshing. Tania was born in Kenya...
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Language: The languages in Albania with Diane and Kyle, former Peace Corps volunteers
Can learning a new language unlock part of your personality? This is something I've wondered my entire language play experience. And I've been asking guests flavors of this question more and more lately. How Kyle and Diane answer t...
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Language: Albanian, Serbian & Turkish Languages with Educator, Author & Advocate Elizabeth Gowing
Language can be a lens into culture, a way to share our experiences and a tool to help others. These are some of the aspects of language that we discuss with guest Elizabeth Gowing. She worked in primary education in inner London before m...
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Episode 39
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Language: Language Research in Nepal with the Folks from the Big & White Podcast
If you've ever wondered what it's like to live and do linguistic research in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode is for you! Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and cr...
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Episode 37
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Podcasting: Big and White: Two American Linguists Living & Podcasting in Nepal
If you've ever wondered what it's like to live, work, and podcast in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode are for you!Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and cre...
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The Language of Music with Damon Castillo
This episode is really special for me. Last month for NaPodPoMo I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Damon Castillo for this episode. Yes, THE Damon Castillo of the Mess of Me album that we've been using for the past 2 years in all of th...
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Episode 35
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Online: Patience and Balance Online: Geopats Online Return Guest,Jo of Life in Breaths
Our first guest on Geopats Online (then called Virtual Expats) in September 2018 was Joanna Czutkowna, Founder of Life in Breaths & I went shopping today. When we first met back then she was very passionate about sustainability within the f...
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Language: International Podcast Day Language Learning Panel
On September 30, 2020 I was thrilled to lead a language learning Podcasters panel for International Podcast Day. You can watch the video of this panel on YouTube, https://youtu.be/hR8fr0Hapo0, OR you can listen to this on this episode. Thank yo...
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Episode 33
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On Being Language Seen: A Japanese American in Japan: Ken Hirano
In this episode we are talking to Ken Hirano, who was born in Japan but his family moved to the U.S. before he started school. He has returned to Japan to live a few times in his life, and now is one of them. He moved back to Tokyo about a year...
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Episode 32
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Books: One Year Later, "Schadenfreude, A Love Story..." With The Author, Rebecca Schuman
One year ago today Nicole from the Expat Cast, former guest and guest Host Tatjana and I discussed the book Schadenfreude, a Love Story: Me, the Germans and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliati...
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Coffee: Dark Coffee and Fresh Crema with Canadian Expat in China Erin Garnhum
Erin and I met in Vietnam many years ago, the place where both of our coffee obsession hit a peak, so it only made sense to have her on the podcast. In this episode we dive into her coffee explorations in Australia, many countries in Asia, Ital...
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Online: Expat Isolation & Music with James Errington, Centuries of Sound Podcast
Has music ever soothed your soul and made you feel connected again? Yes, me too. And it sounds like the same happened to James when he was an expat for well over a decade. He is back in his home country now so his perspective on his time in th...
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Language: Beyond the Words: German Language Ponderings with Steph from Transcontinental Overload
In this episode, Steph Cook of Transcontinental Overload is kind enough to ponder 3 aspects of German that strike me (Geopats Steph) as strange. Her insights and humo(u)r about these differences is a sheer delight. You will never hear the Germa...
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Episode 29
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Coffee: Austria, Costa Rica, Czech Republic and Germany Coffee Explorations with Travis Dow of Podcastnik Productions
Travis lived in Germany and the Czech Republic for 20 years and podcasts about history on podcastnik.com. After talking about alchemy and witches as a ghost-tour guide in Prague, he teamed up with Pete Collman to figure out podcasting as a medi...
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