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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning French, Russian
  • 40, Other
  • Member since 2009
  • Matt teaches ESL to some awesome and inspiring students, ...
  • Matt: BA, Anthropology & Chinese. MA: Linguistics. Li...
  • From Matt is from Golden, CO, USA. Liyun is from Taoyuan, Taiwan
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Move some place warm and become a linguist

ABOUT ME

We met in Taiwan while Matt was studying Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University. And the rest is history as they say...

We're trying to finish up our MAs and as soon as we do that, we're going to be off to travel the world once again!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We've hosted one guest from Ukraine, which was a great experience, and hope to host more in the future!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Randomly meeting some couchsurfers in Taipei and having a crazy adventure somewhere in the alleys of Taipei

Interests

We love cooking, gardening, laughing, watching good movies, riding our bikes, and seeing our friends. Matt plays the guitar and Liyun plays the piano.

You're likely to find Matt in his garden or in the kitchen. He loves learning new things and exploring constantly revolving interests. Lately he's been playing Go. He's also a bit of a nerd, and hopes to get a PhD in Computational Linguistics.

Liyun is most at home in the company of close friends, or with small children. She loves people, and music, and is combining these interests in music therapy.

  • cooking
  • gardening
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • piano
  • history
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Matt loves The Decemberists, The Cure, Nic Jones, Annie Briggs, JS Bach, and I've been on a Sinatra kick recently.

Liyun loves Chopin, Beethoven, 楊乃文, 陳綺貞

Movies: Matt's tastes in movies have started getting esoteric since we got netflix...

Liyun loves international / artsy films.

Movies we've loved watching together are the Lord of the Rings, Run Fatboy Run, Priceless, Goodbye Lenin...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Matt was almost sucked out to sea by a riptide on the south-east coast of Taiwan.

Teach, Learn, Share

We can both teach you Chinese. Matt can teach English, and some basic guitar, and liyun can teach piano.

If you're a better guitarist than Matt, then he'd love to learn from you! Matt would also loves to learn little bits of any language.

Liyun would love to have a Russian speaker to learn from and practice with.

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