Software developer and language enthusiast ("polyglot") based in New York City, soon returning to school to get a masters in Data Journalism. I grew up in the United States and China (in that order) and have always been fascinated with learning about other cultures (languages especially, but also history, politics, and popular culture). I did linguistics in college and specialized in Russian, and have since gone and tried to pick up a bunch of other languages, to varying degrees of success. I like to practice these languages by traveling when I can, and when I can't, I help organize a language exchange meetup in NYC called Polyglot Bar.
对语言感兴趣
对电影感兴趣
流利使用英语
正在学习阿拉伯语
我为什么使用Couchsurfing
I like how couchsurfing lets travellers get to know a place better, by establishing personal connections between hosts and guests which are harder to come by in other accomodation situations. I've previously surfed in Split, Budapest, Krakow, Lviv, and Vienna.
音乐、电影与书籍
Movies: Inglourious Basterds, Rane (Wounds), Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), Okuribito (Departures), etc... Music: Foreign-language music and electronic music. Dubioza Kolektiv, Stromae, Mayra Andrade, SBTRKT, AlunaGeorge... Books: Crime and Punishment (read it in Russian), The Kite Runner, A Song of Ice and Fire series...
我做过的一件令人惊叹的事
Lived in a Bashkir village in the Ural Mountains for a week. Had a Serbian-language conversation about WWII history with a former Yugoslav navy officer outside the Military History Museum in Belgrade. Commuted to work by auto-rickshaw in Mumbai. Visited the mountain village in rural inland China where my dad had been exiled for re-education for 11 years during the Cultural Revolution.
教学、学习、分享
As a language enthusiast, I'm always ready to teach and learn about languages and linguistics, and I enjoy sharing travel stories with fellow travelers.
我能与房东分享的
Photos and stories.
我的兴趣
Languages, technology, history, politics, pop culture, travel.
