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BFU: “The Mysterious Death of Dr. Eugene Davis”

Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime

“The Mysterious Death of Dr. Eugene Davis”

Aeternus.Flamma

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Prompt: ghost hunt but make it buzzfeed unsolved!AU (it can be with or without Gene being alive) i think that would be entertaining Submitted by Anonymous

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[Intro music plays]

RYAN: [Narration] Today on Buzzfeed Unsolved, we discuss the mysterious death of Dr. Eugene Davis.

SHANE: Eugene?

RYAN: Yeah, Eugene.

SHANE: I only know, like, one other Eugene. When was this?

RYAN: Like, recent. If you’d let me get through the intro…

SHANE: Fine, fine. Go on.

RYAN: As I was saying, today we discuss the mysterious death of Dr. Eugene Davis, one of the most renowned mediums of our time.

SHANE: Medium. Right.

RYAN: Yes, medium. Dr. Davis, known as Gene to his family, has been called the perfect medium–no other person has thus far been able to so accurately communicate with other spirits. Not only could he channel on near demand, but he also showed, on numerous occasions, speaking fluently in languages he did not know.

SHANE: Oh, sure. Like that can’t be faked. This bullshit has been literally faked for hundreds of years. Picking up a few lines in French isn’t exactly convincing. I’ve said it before. All psychics are bullshit.

RYAN: Yeah, fine, maybe not. But how about entire conversations with loved ones in Russian? Or Arabic? Can–can you do that?

SHANE: Just cause–okay, well, you can learn languages. There are people out there who have learned dozens of languages over their life–

RYAN: Did I mention he was sixteen?

SHANE: …

RYAN: Yeah, think about that a bit more. He’s seventeen and apparently he fluently speaks, uh, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean… English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Russian, Arabic… Like, people have tried to disprove this kid and–

SHANE: Wait you, said Dr. Eugene Davis.

RYAN: Yeah–

SHANE: Doctor?

RYAN: We’ll get to that.

SHANE: Yeah. Okay. I call bullshit now. This is already ridiculous.

RYAN: It gets weirder.

SHANE: Of course it does.

RYAN: [Narration] Dr. Davis’s sad story starts when he was a child, found in an American orphanage by famous parapsychologists, Martin and Luella Davis. The Davises adopted Gene and his brother, despite them showing know signs of speaking English.

SHANE: Martin and Luella didn’t speak English??

RYAN: No, Gene and his brother. They only spoke Japanese to one another.

SHANE: … They only spoke Japanese?

RYAN: Well, yeah, they’re Japanese, or, their parents were.

SHANE: You–uh–so he’s a psychic, Japanese child found in an American orphanage?

RYAN: Yeah. And he’s adopted by a British couple.

SHANE: Oh, they’re British?

RYAN: Yeah, they’re, like, the British version of the Warren’s–don’t roll your eyes.

SHANE: I thought this wasn’t the ghost season.

RYAN: It’s not–well, yeah, it’s not.

SHANE: There are ghosts involved, aren’t there?

RYAN: …

SHANE: This is great.

RYAN: [Narration] Gene and his brother Oliver, and no, those weren’t their birth names, but I couldn’t find those, were adopted by the parapsychologists and moved to the UK. From a young age, the brothers showed signs of having unique abilities.

SHANE: Both of them? The brother too?

RYAN: Uh, yeah. Oliver Davis, also a doctor by the way, has given demonstrations using psychokinesis, or PK. Telekinesis basically. Move shit with his mind.

SHANE: Interesting… And how old is he?

RYAN: They’re twins.

SHANE: Tw–twins! You’re kidding me!

RYAN: No, no that’s for real.

SHANE: So, you have two creepy children, freaking twins, in an orphanage, and they’re apparently psychic? This isn’t real life. This is a plot to a B movie.

RYAN: I don’t know what to tell you. I can show you the videos.

SHANE: Shopped.

RYAN: There’s–there’s a death certificate–

SHANE: I’m not saying this kid didn’t die, I’m saying that this is a hot, steaming pile of–

RYAN: Alright, alright, I get it. Let me get to his death.

SHANE: Fine.

RYAN: After jointly publishing a dissertation and receiving their honorary doctorates, Gene and his brother were accepted to Cambridge University. Before starting his study, Gene decided to travel to Japan, though accounts as to why he did so vary. What may have been a pilgrimage to visit distant relatives unfortunately turned disastrous as Gene disappeared.

SHANE: Was he traveling alone?

RYAN: Yes.

SHANE: Who lets a sixteen year old travel alone, especially overseas?

RYAN: Okay, well, one, if you’re going to do it, Japan’s the one place to do it, it’s pretty safe. Two, he had contacts he was visiting. It wasn’t like he was just wandering around completely alone, he just didn’t have the same person traveling with him the whole time. They have records of him, you know, like visiting schools, meeting with colleagues and stuff. He was apparently very personable and made friends easily.

SHANE: Yeah, well, that’s how people get killed. And based on how this is going–well there you go.

RYAN: [Narration] Gene Davis was last seen leaving the home of a friend one night. He left on foot, intending to walk back to the ryokan that he was staying at in the area. However, he never made it to his destination. Despite police being called very quickly, it would take months before his body was recovered.

SHANE: Okay, I guess I take it back. He at least had friends who called the cops, when, what, he didn’t text them back?

RYAN: Actually…

SHANE: Oh they didn’t? Okay, nevermind. Suspicious.

RYAN: So, his brother was the one who called the cops.

SHANE: His brother? But he didn’t go to Japan.

RYAN: No, he didn’t.

SHANE: ….

RYAN: [Narration] Though he couldn’t say how he knew to call the cops, Gene’s brother, Oliver, called anyhow and insisted that they do a check on his brother at the ryokan. When they arrived, the proprietors confirmed that they hadn’t seen the teen. It took a few days before Gene’s friends came forward, having no idea he was missing in the first place.

SHANE: More psychic shit?

RYAN: Uh, yeah, psychic… stuff. It was never publicly declared, but like, yeah, apparently Oliver had like, I dunno, psychic visions and knew something happened to his brother.

SHANE: Well–okay.

RYAN: You don’t actually sound that angry at that.

SHANE: No, I guess… Twins right? I mean, I may not believe in the oogie boogie crap, but there has been, you know, weird things between children. Weren’t there, like, those sisters? And they only talked to each other, but then decided one had to die…?

RYAN: Yeah, the Gibbons. The Silent Twins.

SHANE: There you go. Another weird twin story.

RYAN: Actually–okay, well, we’ll get into that. After nearly six months of searching, Oliver Davis ultimately recovered the body of his brother, who was found at the bottom of a lake in the countryside. He traveled to Japan and worked under a pseudonym, using family money to pay divers to search bodies of water.

SHANE: A lake? How did he–why did he–you know what, nevermind. Psychic. Right.

RYAN: Right. He, uh, saw his brother, I guess, drown.

SHANE: But psychic-ly.

RYAN: Yeah.

SHANE: Okay.

RYAN: Autopsy notes say that Gene was likely hit, uh, twice, by a car, and then tossed into the water while he was still alive.

SHANE: Jesus. Twice? What, did someone back up and hit him again?

RYAN: Actually, it seemed like he was hit and then someone reversed and backed over him. Based on breaks or something, I don’t know. I’m not an expert. But yeah, seems like at least the second one was intentional. He still wasn’t dead, though, and maybe could have survived.

SHANE: Until he was thrown into the water? That’s horrible. That seems intentional, or like, the worst person in the world getting into an accident. What kind of person could do that? It’s like stupid teenagers at the start of a horror movie–actually I’m pretty sure that is the start to a horror movie.

RYAN: Yeah, it’s terrible.

SHANE: And sixteen. Awful. Psychic shit or not, awful.

RYAN: It’s time to dive into theories on what happened to the young Dr. Eugene Davis.

RYAN: [Narration] Our first theory, and the most believable, is simply that Gene was hit on a dark road while walking back to his ryokan. The driver, finding themselves in a predicament, either backed up to see what they hit or intentionally did so in a state of panic. Regardless, it’s quite possible they believed that the teen was dead, and instead of calling the police, dumped the body in one of the numerous lakes in the area. The idea that it was simply an accident seems to have gained the most traction as there are no other serious suspects at this time.

SHANE: It’s unfortunate, but I guess I can see how it could have happened. It’s crazy that someone with such an insane background could meet such a munade end. Like, I thought for sure you would say it was ghosts or aliens.

RYAN: We still have two more theories.

SHANE: Of course we do.

RYAN: [Narration] The second theory has started circulating since the recovery of Gene’s body. Many people found the fact that Gene’s brother simply knew about the death to be suspicious. Some speculations, especially from skeptics of the psychics, believe that Oliver orchestrated the death of his brother. Both brothers proved to be highly intelligent, to the point where they’ve been called prodigies, and it wouldn’t be impossible for someone so cunning to plan such an elaborate ruse.

SHANE: Hm… Okay. I guess that’s possible… Do we–do we know anything about this Oliver? Why would he murder his brother? Like, is there any substance to this theory?

RYAN: Yeah, so, first, apparently, despite being twins, their personalities were night and day. Whereas Gene was pretty popular and, like, charismatic, his brother was–is, he’s still alive–not. So, it could have been jealousy. But, also, you’ve also mentioned the Silent Sisters–who agreed that one of them needed to die for the other to live.

SHANE: So, what, they were in on it together? If so, kinda seems like they picked the wrong brother.

RYAN: Yeah, kinda. Another popular theory for the whole, Oliver killed his brother concept, is that, much like the Fox sisters–who, if you don’t know, are some of the most famous ‘spiritualists’ in history–Gene wanted to confess that their psychic powers were fake. When one of the Fox sisters did that in the 1800’s, it ruined them. Maybe Oliver wasn’t willing to give up the clout that they had built off of their supposed abilities.

SHANE: That’s it. That’s the one.

RYAN: You like that one?

SHANE: Yeah. That makes a hell of a lotta sense. Sure, hit and run, maybe. But yeah, this Oliver seems suspicious. I’m on team: their powers were fake, Gene had a conscience, and as he was growing out of his teenage years, he wanted to leave it behind. Seems about right.

RYAN: Yeah–yeah, okay. Seeing the history of other psychic siblings… yeah, I can see how this makes sense.

SHANE: What happened to Oliver?

RYAN: Uh, well he’s still teaching at–

SHANE: He’s teaching?

RYAN: Yeah, like I said, prodigy. He’s been back to Japan a few times–recently he made the paper because he was involved in a fire on the island of Poveglia in Italy.

SHANE: So he’s an arsonist now?

RYAN: No, no, apparently there was a ghost hunt that went wrong and–

SHANE: He’s a ghost hunter?

RYAN: Okay, this is–this is a story for another time–the Ciao Poveglia mystery is–you know what, I’m just going to stop now. It’s a whole thing. Look into it.

SHANE: Okay. Fine. Last theory?

RYAN: [Narration] Our final theory is that Gene’s dealings with the afterlife came back to haunt him. Though no one can be certain exactly what Gene was doing, some true crime enthusiasts have put together a trail of his last known whereabouts in Japan. Supposedly, the trail can be traced back to a well known politician. Some believe that the spirits of individuals wronged by the politician spoke to Gene and he was working on gathering evidence to provide to the authorities.

SHANE: The spirits spoke to him. Right. Of course. Are there any scandals behind this politician?

RYAN: Uh–no. None. Well, there are rumors, but the, like, Redditors can’t even really settle on who the person is. So, it’s probably a bust.

SHANE: Could you imagine if that was true? Or like, you know, he thought it was true? And this kid just walked into the police station and said, I–I know that the, uh, prime minister killed and, uh, ate someone. How do I know? The ghosts told me! Dude would have been locked up so fast…

RYAN: Yeah, probably. It… doesn’t have a lot of credit behind it.

RYAN: [Narration] In the end, what actually happened to Dr. Eugene Davis, one of the most accomplished spiritualists of our time, will remain unsolved.

SHANE: Look, whatever happened, and whatever… skills… he might have had… it’s still unfortunate that someone died so young. It’s a shame.

RYAN: I’m guessing that I could show you all of his public research, and you would still never believe me.

SHANE: Uh… yeah that–that’s probably accurate.

RYAN: Wouldn’t it be pretty cool if we like, ran into Oliver on one of our investigations? Like, we just ended up at the same location?

SHANE: I mean, you did just offer up a theory that he’s a killer and I did agree with you. So. You know, no? Not because of any psychic stuff, but because we just trashed him online on a channel with a few million subscribers.

RYAN: Good point. Well. I’m sure that will never happen. [Outro Music Plays.]

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Notes: please don’t ask me how far I have driven to see one of the few, live BFU shows. I’m a Watcher patreon and own MOST of their BFU/Watcher merch. It’s like this prompt was made for me. I’m working on a BFU Supernatural/GH fic now. Ciao Poveglia is referenced. Please check out the cleaned up, slightly updated version on AO3.

Ever your servant,

Aeternus.Flamma

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justkeeptrekkin · 6 years

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Okay if you're still taking prompts how about this: Aizawa finds it very, very attractive when his friend Mic speaks in other languages. And since Mic does so all the time, it's starting to get difficult for Aizawa to keep his secret.

Ah, my favourite customer! Good day to you! Ah, some pining Aizawa you say? Mic speaking foreign languages, you ask? Ho ho, I certainly have some of that up my sleeve! But how about… some ADDED ANGST…

“I call bullshit.”

Shouta watches as Nemuri points an accusatory finger at Hizashi. He leans away from it, back into his seat, but his expression is clearly doing its best not to appear threatened. The chatter of the pub drifts around them but the world seems like its shrunk to their table, and their table alone.

“What, you don’t believe me? What’s there not to believe!”

“You do not speak eight languages.”

Hizashi bats Nemuri’s hand away from his face, leans over his half finished pint of Ichiban with a challenging grin. “Do, too.”

“You can swear in eight languages. You speak two fluently, one semi-fluently, the others-”

“Yo, what? What do you take me for, an amateur? Come on man!”

“Prove it,” Kan demands, slamming down his glass on the table. He doesn’t usually join post work drinks, and neither does All Might- especially after the mess that was last time. Now, however, the five of them are supposedly ‘enjoying’ a drink to start the weekend.

Shouta may be the only one not enjoying himself.

“How can he prove it, you won’t know what he’s saying,” Nemuri says a little belligerently, leaning across the table towards Kan and almost knocking over her and All Might’s drinks. She’s already quite a bit drunker than the rest of them.

“Puedo probártelo, solo dame algo que decir,” Hizashi announces.

Shouta sighs and stares into the top of his beer. He swirls it round and watches it foam up.

“What did you say?”“I said ‘I can prove it, just give me something to say’.” He’s cradling the back of his head with his hands and leaning back of his seat with a smug, beaming smile.

“But how can you prove that’s what you said, if none of us speak…” Nemuri trails off.

“Spanish.”

“Right!”

“You can’t, you’ll just have to trust that I’m a genius, multi-lingual sex god.” Nemuri bursts into unforgiving laughter, smacking the table. Hizashi glares at her, spluttering when no one comes to his defence. “Wh- It’s not that unbelievable!”

“I’m not sure about the last bit,” All Might says uneasily- Yagi. He should really consider him Yagi, here, but that’s still too strange. “But I can certainly believe that you can speak multiple languages. Your English is perfect, and I can at least attest to that.”

Shouta maintains his attention on his beer, drumming his fingers along the glass. His knee bounces up and down under the table.

“What else you got?” Nemuri leers, and Shouta isn’t sure whether she’s trying to give everyone a clear view down her cleavage, but it’s certainly managed to fluster All Might- Yagi- who pointedly and unsubtly turns away and goes red in the face. But then, Yagi gets flustered by most things.

“Well, there’s no point proving that I can speak English,” he starts, in English, as he leans across the table to meet Nemuri, narrowing her eyes at her. Then, in a language Shouta doesn’t recognise, “но, может быть, если я буду говорить по-русски, это произведет на вас впечатление.”

Shouta’s leg continues to bounce up and down, and his nail click more noisily against his frosted beer glass.

“Was that Russian?” Yagi asks.

“Sure was-”

“I think that deserves some of my magic cocktail-” Nemuri croons, forcing the drink in Hizashi’s direction- who, by habit has learnt to duck this way and that to avoid it.

“Japanese, Russian, English, Spanish,” Kan counts on his fingers. “You’re a goddamn show off, Mic.”

“Well, I mean-” and then Hizashi begins to rattle something off in Mandarin. The others respond with equal measures of awe, Nemuri teasing him for being a nerd, as she usually does. Shouta remains quiet and stares at the rings of condensation on the table left from his glass.

It’s not that he doesn’t find it interesting to hear Hizashi speak other languages. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. He finds it altogether too interesting. It’s stupid really; since high school, he’s been able to keep his inconvenient feelings for Hizashi under wraps. But the moment he starts speaking confidently in another language, the moment he reminds Shouta just how smart he is and how good he sounds speaking-

“You speak Italian, too, right?” Nemuri prompts, apparently forgetting her previous disbelief and poking him in the forehead. “Come on then, lover-boy let’s hear it.”

Shouta sinks lower in his seat. He feels sixteen all over again.

And then he looks up at Hizashi, and he really shouldn’t have done. Because he’s looking straight back at him. With an intensity in his eyes that only Shouta can see, behind all the amusement.

“Non direi che sono un amante. Sono innamorato del mio migliore amico e non riesco a convincerlo ad amarmi.”

Shouta’s fists clench at his sides and his throat goes dry. His knee stops bouncing up and down but his heart is certainly racing. It doesn’t matter what he just said, it never does, because Shouta doesn’t need to understand.

Enough of this. Enough.

His chair scrapes loudly against the floor as he abruptly removes himself from the table. He’s distantly aware of his beer sloshing over the edge and spilling over the table, can hear Nemuri call after him, but he ignores it. He storms towards the exit, through the curtain door, and steps outside. It’s horribly cold, but blissfully cooler than the overwhelming heat inside the pub. His breath clouds in front of his face. It smells like cigarettes out here. There are a couple of people chatting in the quiet alley, the power-line cables overhead dripping with the afternoon’s rain. Restaurant signs shine neon in the puddles.

He collapses against the wall and squeezes his eyes shut. Immediately, the regret and embarrassment of storming out settles over him. Even after all these years, he struggles to keep his cool. Even now, at the ripe old age of thirty one, he wants to storm out and slam his bedroom door like a teenager.

As if Hizashi had purposefully made him do that.

Shouta sighs, rubs his face with his hands. He can hear the drip-drip-drip of the edge of the pub’s shelter. There’s a strip of dry ground for about half a meter, before it stops and the ground glistens with moisture. He stares at the floor.

A few weeks ago, he’d stood up in front of hundreds of reporters, on national television, and he’d managed to keep his feelings under control then. So why not now? Why was it that all Hizashi had to do was-

The familiar, towering presence of Yagi appears beside him, a great head poking comically out of the pub curtain.

“Ah. I thought you might have gone home.”

Shouta looks at him, rolls his head lazily back to its original position, staring ahead at the passers by. Friday night in Mustafu can be rowdy, but this part of town is quiet. It’s why the Yuuei teachers prefer it. He ignores the way Yagi takes a spot beside him, leaning against the wall.

He knows Yagi wants to be his friend. He reckons he could be a bit more accommodating, but he’s never given anyone that kind of allowance. The people closest to him appreciate that and see beyond the small talk. They don’t see a reserved hero with a resting bitch-face that needs to be loosened up.

He doesn’t look at Yagi, but he can tell he’s staring. It’s getting pretty irritating.

“I was in love with my best friend for a few years.”

Shouta doesn’t move, feels that any kind of movement would someone confirm Yagi’s words. He goes very still, teeth clenching.

“In America. Looking back, I wouldn’t have changed any of it. He ended up having a beautiful family who I care for a lot. My only regret was I never told him. Now it’s too late.”

Shouta only listens silently, pretending that this is just some unexpected confession from a colleague after a few drinks. Even if Yagi doesn’t drink. Even if Shouta’s the one who’s had a few and can feel the light-headedness lift his inhibitions from his mind.

There’s a deep sigh a foot above him. Yagi’s head turns down to look at him again. “Aizawa, I know it’s not my place-”

“It’s not,” he interrupts, and he wishes he could control himself for one goddamn second. “And I really don’t want to talk about this.”

“Hm.” Yagi nods once, looks in the same direction as Shouta, neither of them really seeing anything. “Alright. But don’t forget what I said, Aizawa.”

Shouta feels a sudden flush of irritation at the tone. There’s something in his words that his brain can’t help but interpret that as patronising. He looks away from Yagi when he says, “We’re not friends. You don’t need to dole out advice for something you don’t know about.”

A quiet settles, and the sound of the drip-drip-drip and pub clamour fills in the gap that gapes between them.

Shouta closes his eyes. “I’m sorry. That wasn’t-”

Surprisingly, Yagi chuckles. “It’s fine. If I were offended by the things you say and do, I wouldn’t be trying to hard to be your friend.”

Shouta feels his chest pinch slightly at that. Manipulative bastard. He looks up at him with a wan glare, and Yagi laughs again. The laughter quickly dwindles to a sigh.

“I’ll keep my nose out of your business, I’m sorry for overstepping. It’s hard not to when you recognise a situation like that from your own experiences.”

“Sure,” Shouta replies, dully. And suddenly, the image of him slouching against the wall, sulking, communicating monosyllabically, reminds him an awful lot of his newly enrolled hero-course student. The realisation makes him rub his face wearily, the urge to laugh rising within him. “Shit. I’m drunk.”

“Says the man who boldly claims that he never gets drunk.”

“Don’t listen to anything he says when he’s drunk, he never knows what’s going on.”

Shouta and Yagi turn to see Hizashi leaning out of the doorway. He steps fully outside, gaze fixed on Shouta. He looks away. The conversation meets an abrupt halt, and Yagi pushes himself off from the wall, awkwardly lingering between the two of them.

“I suppose since you’re out here, I should make sure Kayama isn’t trying to drown Kan in alcohol.”Hizashi looks up in acknowledgement and laughs, the corresponding smile a bit too strained for Shouta’s liking. “Yeah, man, you should do that. No one wants death by vodka cranberry.”

Yagi nods, looks between the two of them for a long, uncomfortable moment. Shouta has to reason with himself not to kick him in the shins. And then, he disappears inside the pub, leaving Hizashi to look at him a few feet away. Those eyes are wide and alarmingly… alarmed. He crosses his arms in front of his chest, perhaps against the cold, perhaps in defence. Maybe Shouta’s looking a lot stormier than he realised.

“Yo.”

“Hey.”

Hizashi shuffles awkwardly. “You OK? You kind of disappeared suddenly. I’d ask if it was something I said, but I know you don’t speak Russian or Italian.” He pauses, eyes widening impossibly more. “Right?”

Shouta looks away, stares at his feet. “Right.”

He knows that Hizashi is waiting for some kind of explanation, but he has no idea how to provide it.

“It’s hard to explain,” is what he ends up, uselessly, opting for.

Hizashi nods slowly, and the disappointment in his face is both confusing and terrible. It’s half lit up with the light from inside the pub. There’s a burst of incongruous laughter from within, and it sets Shouta on edge.

“Ask me what I said,” Hizashi whispers.

Shouta looks at him, blinking dumbly. He wishes he hadn’t started drinking tonight. “What?”

Hizashi’s gaze is so intense that Shouta almost wants to back away. “Ask me what it was I said in there. That last bit.”

Shouta doesn’t understand, but he doesn’t bother trying to ask him to elaborate. He doesn’t know why Hizashi’s asking him to play this game, and it’s annoying, and he’s tired, and he asks anyway because he finds it damn near impossible to deny him.

“Go on. What did you say.”

Hizashi doesn’t reply. He just stares at him, eyebrows pinched and eyes shining, lips pressed together nervously- in a way Shouta hasn’t seen in a while. And that concerns him. He tries to find the words to ask what’s wrong, to figure out what this is all about.

But Hizashi stops those thoughts in their tracks when he takes two brisk steps towards Shouta and kisses him.

His immediate reaction is to tense up, shoulders rising to his ears and mouth pursing in defence. And maybe it’s because he’s wondered what this would be like for years, maybe it’s because he’s been in love with Hizashi for just as long, or maybe it’s because he trusts him implicitly- probably all of the above. Whatever the reason, a moment later, Shouta finds himself kissing back. Hand shakily, hesitantly holding Hizashi’s arm to keep him there, for as long as possible.

Hizashi breaks away, takes a sharp intake of breath. Expression frantic and eyes searching for his attention.

“That’s what I was saying. Back inside.”

“Huh,” Shouta says lamely.

For all the languages that Hizashi can speak, he seems speechless now. And Shouta has no problem with that as he kisses him once more.

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bookdragonlibrary · 5 years

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Resume thoughts on senti!Adrien theory

At first, I thought it was a crazy theory because it’s so big it can be possible. Then I read developped points to understand why fans could think it could be canon and I thought it would be even crazier if it is! So here my opinion about the whole thing.

First, Emilie was the previous user of the peacock miraculous, which makes her sick just like Nathalie. She seems to be cryogenic frozen, which means her body is frozen with an extreme low temperature so her disease won’t get worst the time Gabriel finds the destruction and creation miraculi to heal her. I think we all assumed Emilie was dead and saying “she disapeared” was a nice when to say so in a kid show. But after saying the cuffin, I think she is rather put in a state so the corpse won’t destroyed itself (but it might be too dark for a kid show) or the scenario I explained above. But why did she do that? What did she put her life in danger by using the Hawkmoth miraculous? To protect Adrien like this theory thinks? Or to create him?

Maybe keeping a sentimonster, and an evolved one like a sentient being, must be exhauting on the long run. Do you remember how Mayura was most exhausted than usual when she created senti-Ladybug? So maybe it the cause of Emilie’s dizzy spells and she was put on coma/criogenic stase the time Hawkmoth succeed to make the wish . She could have put the amok on something indestructible: the peacock miraculous causing it to malfunction since it’s not designed to have to source of the power of the Peacock and the amok, like it’s explained in this theory. As the scene with the repaired peacock was the last one of the episode, and so of the whole season, we didn’t see if it has an effect on Adrien. Maybe he will become sick? Something smilar than Nathalie and Emilie? Or something even worst than dizzy spells? And if the peacock miraculous is the source of the amok of senti-Adrien, why Gabriel did fix it? Wouldn’t he fear that something bad happen to Adrien in consequence to that?

One of them could be sterile and the only way Emilie found was creating a sentient sentimonster to still have a child? That could explain why Adrien is so talented, in another word “perfect”: he speaks several languages (Mandarin Chinese and morse, who speaks morse fluently?), good at sport (fencing), good at music (piano), the first of his class (the second place is Sabrina) caring/kind, funny, acting like a charming prince (rose, on one knee, bow when he “first” meet Marinette in Oblivio), etc. This trait was pointed out by characters in the show (Marinette, Gabriel) and by the creator himself on Twitter: “Adrien is perfect. His flaw comes from the fact he’s not accustomed to the “outside” world. His innocence makes him vulnerable. To sum it up: he’s not flawed, the world is.”) as Chat noir pointed out Buguette was also perfect.

That also explains why he was never allowed to go outside the house: because he could have been “damaged” as a sentimonster and people could have discover that he isn’t a true human. That could also explain why he is so obedient to his father, I think it was in the very first episode where Nino said directly to Gabriel that Adrien does everything his father demands of him. So foreshadowing since day one?

But I rather think it’s because human!Adrien died a little bit more than a year ago. Chloé and Adrien are childhood friends and we saw in the first episode of season 2 that Gabriel has an childhood drawing of his son. I thought Emilie could have created him because their couple was sterile, but what if it was because an accident happened to human!Adrien and Emilie could not take the grief and mourning and created a senti!Adrien just like her son was? That also could explain why Gabriel is so cold and distant with Adrien because he’s not his flesh son, but he still cares of him, maybe in Emilie’s memory.

Gabriel made a promise to Emily and they made a mistake leading to that situation. While talking about that mistake, he was playing with his wedding ring. (but this theory also said that being close to a sentimonster cause the dizzy speels which I disagree with, since in Ladybug, Nathalie also have a crisis) So maybe the amok is in his wedding ring and not in the miraculous? But it could only be because he was talking to/about Emilie, because another theory pointed out what Gabriel hides in safety and what we have? A tour guide of Tibet and a pamphlet of a Tibetan hotel. As a souvenir? For sentimental reasons? Not really Gabriel’s type. Or could it be where senti!Adrien’s amok is? What mistake could it be? The accident that killed the human!Adrien? Creating senti!Adrien and put Emilie in the coma? But I’m more interesting in the pamphlet. For reminder, a pamphlet is an satirical and political article/text to criticize something or someone. A really bitter critic in resume. Could it be because of this hotel that human!Adrien died? So the mistake could be going to this hotel/going to Tibet. So the pamphlet must be where the amok is rather than the tour guide. But that means the miraculous being fixed won’t be bad news for senti!Adrien.

Emilie disappeared around a year ago before Origins in season 1. Meaning senti!Adrien is only one year old, but maybe he also has the memories of human!Adrien as well. Anyway, remember how Adrien is oblivious to Marinette’s crush on him and finds reasons to explain she can’t be in love with him? That could be part of his innocence Thomas Astruc was talking in his tweet. He is only one year old and doesn’t know the outside world, because he stays at home until he decides to go to middle school like everyone of his age. So Adrien is really gullible, so he believes every crazy reasons Marinette comes up with to hide her true feelings, plus Marinette never lies or cheat as he said to Kagami when he first met her (well, at the end of the episode). So he has no reason to believe Marinette would lie to him because she is truthworthy and because he doesn’t understand the concept of hiding your true feelings to the person you love because he is innocent, authentic and direct like a child could be (which is shown when he is Chat noir).

And maybe, Gabriel’s wish, his true wish, isn’t to heal Emilie, but transforming Adrien in a true human by sacrificing his whole humanity/life to do it. In Gorizilla, we saw he really cares for his son so he could totally be able to sacrifice himself for him. That’s why he isn’t afraid of turning evil for it, because he knows he will lose his humanity anyway. Chat noir compared Hawkmoth to a monster in Ladybug, to which he replied: Oh that, you’ll find out really soon. So does it mean Adrien will end being human but orphan? So he really need Marinette’s parents as his adopting family…

Of course, Nathalie knows, she is by Gabriel’s side for his plans as Hawkmoth so she must have accepted because she know why he is doing all that. In a episode, just before she became Mayura if I remember well, she said she began to care for Adrien so he could be the reason she accepts to put her life in danger, plus her love for Gabriel. But Master Fu could not know Adrien was a sentiperson. Only the one who possesses the Peacock miraculous could. That’s why Nathalie could sense the amok in the sentimonster created by Fu while Plagg and Tikki, or even Adrien and Marinette, as kwamis and miraculous holders, could not.

Remember that Adrien is allergic to feathers? I thought it was an odd allergy and plot convenient against the pigeons but what if it was linked to being a sentiperson since an amok is a feather?

The lore we already have about sentimonster and sentiperson:

creating human-like sentimonster is possible and they is perfect compare to humans who are flaws. They are sentient and nothing can make them different from humans except their perfectness.

If you’re not the person who have created the sentimonster, you could not control it/them with their amok. Everything points that Emilie was the previous peacock holder, so Adrien could not be controlled against his will as a senti!person by Nathalie which means she won’t be able to control him to fight Ladybug in the final fight.

you could akumatise a sentimonster, which mean a sentiperson can have emotions, otherwise they won’t have bad ones.

The peacock holder can sense and even destroy every sentimonster, even the ones they didn’t created. They only needs the amok for the last one. So senti!Adrien could be destroyed if someone knows where his amok is.

Miraculous ladybugs can’t bring back a destroyed sentiperson just like in Ladybug.

Cataclysm doesn’t destroy the object/creature created by an amok, it just damages it.

Things we don’t know yet:

the fixed miraculous could be bad news to senti!Adrien?

Can a sentiperson grow old? Because Adrien is actually a teenager, so can he have an adult body in the future?

That could be the reason why we didn’t see Ladybug’s and Chat noir’s faces and why Chat noir didn’t talk in Time Tagger, because maybe Adrien can’t grow up and will have the body of a teen of 14-15 years old forever. So Adrien wasn’t Chat noir anymore in Bunnyx’s time. I just hope he isn’t dead... The Ladybug in Ladybug could be a foreshadowing to show it’s possible. And also show Marinette’s reaction once she faces a sentient sentimonster? (= accepting her as a true person. In the future, she could even be against the word sentimonster and prefer sentiperson or senticreature for animal-like intelligence, so Adrien won’t feel bad, insulted or depreciated) In this episode, there are a few lines which could be foreshadowing for the reveal (and this post pointed the importance of the frames as well):

Chat noir about Senti-Ladybug: She looks so real!

Ladybug about Senti-Ladybug: Things aren’t what they seems at first sight.

Chat noir: She’s so much more elaborated than the others we faced before. She is so perfect. There is anything monstrous about her at all.

Ladybug: I’m nowhere near as perfect as her → meaning a senti-person is perfect compared to humans, who have flaws.

Chat noir to Ladybug: I love you just the way you are → could be what Marinette would say to Adrien when they discover the truth.

Chat noir to Hawkmoth: You’re the real monster!

to what Hawkmoth replies: Oh that, you’ll find out really soon → meaning Adrien could be considered as a monster since he isn’t human or just how monstrous Gabriel’s actions could be.

Ladybug to Chat noir about senti-Ladybug “murder”: peacock’s superpower could be so cruel when wrongly used, even more than the butterfly’s one

This episode is the first one where we saw Adrien mad and he acting just like his father: cold, manipulative/blackmail, and he compared his father to a monster for these reasons.

If they bring human!Adrien back, will it be at the cost of senti!Adrien? Adrien (French spelling of Adrian) means Dark richness. How could you see this boy as dark? Unless his origins are dark... This post also present Marinette’s creativity and symbolism through the bread which creates miracle in the Bible plus Marinette’s name based on Marie, the name of the Holy Virgin. So could it be that our Adrien will be destroyed just like Buguette and that Marinette will create a new one, a human one, but without his memories and she will then pass the miraculous box to someone else (the person we saw in Time Tagger), being also amnesic. So they will be able to start over just like in Oblivio? Could Oblivio be a foreshadowing of the end of Miraculous Ladybug?

Hopefully, I said it would be a resume...

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Student of the Month- Carlos Gonzalez

Introduce yourself. Where were you born, where have you lived, what languages do you speak, what and where did you previously study? Hola! My name is Carlos González Gray. I am a Spanish/American born in Madrid. I have lived in Madrid for most of my life but I moved to The Hague in the Netherlands for my undergraduate degree and spent 6 months in Taipei, Taiwan for my exchange. I speak English and Spanish fluently and have been trying to learn Mandarin Chinese for over 4 years now. I studied World Politics at Leiden University College The Hague.

Have you worked previous to this Master program? Are you currently working, if so where?

I have interned at a hotel chain in Madrid for a couple of months, and still work as a DJ at private parties, weddings and clubs. In Holland I was also Chair of a student organization that hosted events throughout the city for students.

What drew you to Cyber Security?

Honestly, I believe it's the future. Today, there is potential for incredible technological innovation but we are not able to make them public because of the security risks. Therefore, I hope to be able to contribute to the safety and security of future technology so that we can enjoy the amazing benefits. Also, there is an incredible demand for cybersecurity professionals and the prospect of job security is quite appealing.

Are you pursuing any extra-curricular activity/activities? If yes, how do you think it could link with cybersecurity?

I love to play football with classmates and friends whenever possible. I also enjoy DJ-ing on the weekends. I don't see much of a link between cybersecurity and football but I guess if a hacker managed to get into the computer of a DJ during his performance he could ruin the performance and hurt a club or party quite badly.

What are your short and long-term professional goals after the Masters?

My short-term goals are to find a well-paid job that provides me with diverse professional experiences that allow me to be prepared for any job in the future. I am open to move anywhere in the world and in face would prefer to be out of Spain for a couple years while I am still young and have fewer responsibilities. My long-term goals however would be to become a CIO or CISO of a good company in Spain and be able to live the good life in the best country in the world.

What has been the most valuable aspect of your IE education so far?

So far, I believe that the fact we have a small yet diverse classroom has provided me with a unique insight into a variety of working environments and companies which I would not have obtained otherwise. I think that although IE is a wonderful place to network, it is also a wonderful place to learn about with who and where you want to work in the future, by learning through other experiences.

What would be your advice for future MCS students?

Try to obtain a basic technical background before coming to the program. The program creators made sure that the courses are understandable by non-technical people but the confidence that an IT background provides will be very useful. It is not necessary but it would be very helpful for you to have such a foundation for you to obtain more from each class.

What do you think of Madrid so far? Bonus: Best Bar in Madrid?

I’ve lived in Madrid most of my life and have travelled to many places throughout the world and I wholeheartedly believe that Madrid is one of the best cities to live in. The culture, history, gastronomy and entertainment is paralleled by a select few cities around the world. If you are looking for a small place that has cheap drinks and good music: Maloney’s. If you are looking for a place with cheap drinks and food, perfect place to before a night club: Mercado Provenzal.

If you won the lottery tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d buy?

The first thing that comes to mind is a car because my car broke down last week and I am in desperate need for a car that doesn't need to go to the repair shop every other week, a Tesla perhaps. I would probably invest some of it in Bitcoin, as current trends seem to indicate it is a good investment. If I were to have any of it left I would probably keep it in a savings account.

What is an interesting thing about you that not many people know about?

I was a child actor. I appeared once in Disney Channel (No, I will not say which show) and have dubbed several movies and advertisements.

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pricelessmomentblog · 7 years

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Is Learning Extra Languages Worth the Hassle?

One of the most common problems with language learning is forgetting. You spend months or years to build some knowledge of a language, only to find a few years later that you’re unable to speak it very well.

There’s a few ways you can deal with this. One is to simply accept that forgetting is a price paid as part of learning, with the silver lining that relearning tends to be faster. If you forget the language, you can brush up again with a shorter period of practice than originally.

Another way to deal with the problem is to be proactive—establish a regular maintenance schedule, like I did with the languages I learned. I found this helped a lot to prevent backsliding, but it’s not perfect. More, it can be annoying to keep practicing a language you don’t plan to use, if you want to move onto doing other things.

One theory suggests that if you learn a language to fluency, you won’t forget it. That forgetting only occurs because you were at an intermediate level. Reach fluency once, it’s said, and you can speak the language forever.

Does Being Fluent Prevent Forgetting?

I’m not convinced by this theory, but I suspect it has two grains of truth. The simplest explanation is that when you’re fluent, there’s so much more to forget that you can forget a lot and still have retained functionality. By this account, fluency offers no added protection to the decay of memory, it’s simply a greater volume to forget.

The secondary explanation has to do with overlearning. This is that when you speak a language fluently you are using it frequently in real situations. Real situations have considerable overlap, where common words and phrases are used far more than uncommon ones. This results in a psychological effect called overlearning, where extra practice that goes beyond perfect recall increases the stability of your memories.

My suspicion is that the relatively low loss of language by once-fluent speakers is largely these two effects, but it’s also possible there’s a third benefit that makes reaching fluency a more stable goal.

Was I Able to Level-Up My Korean?

My trigger for this essay today was in the wrap-up of my recent project to level-up my Korean. On one level, the project was successful. I stuck to my predetermined schedule and added tons of new vocabulary and grammatical knowledge which showed up in my tutoring sessions.

On another level though, the project was a failure. My original motivation for the project had been to reach a high enough level to sustain genuine interactions with people, in Korean, while living in Canada. That didn’t end up happening, so even though my Korean got better, it didn’t get to the point I wanted to reach.

I think this failure largely came down to a mistake I made early on. My thought was that my lack of immersion in Korean in Canada now was mostly hobbled by my inadequate Korean skills. That if I worked on it for a few months, I’d be able to engage more fluently with speakers here who also speak English.

In practice, I think the problem had less to do with my level of Korean (which was probably already enough, to be honest), and more to do with my lack of a foundation of activities and opportunities to socialize in Korean.

In other words, I had mistaken a linguistic problem for a social one. The irony is, that this was essentially the thesis of the Year Without English. During that project, I wanted to demonstrate that pushing immersion, even at a very low level, can be successful for language learning. The fact that I turned back on this when attempting my level-up project, I think underscores how counter-intuitive it is.

Can You Maintain Immersion in More than One Language at a Time?

I’m done my Korean project now, as I’m starting a writing project that’s going to demand my full attention. I’m not giving up on Korean, but I’m switching it back to the status it had before: maintenance through occasional practice, not active improvement.

Although part of the reason was that I simply ran out of time, I’ve also become more aware of the difficulty of trying to simultaneously maintain immersive environments in more than a few languages at a time.   Once I realized the flaw with my Korean project midway, I switched to trying to build more contacts with Korean people here in Vancouver. The challenge is that this is time consuming. I already have friends and pre-existing social contacts, so it’s difficult to add a bunch of new ones, without pushing other activities out.

This was a major reason, during our trip, that Vat and I insisted on the No-English Rule from Day One. Once you establish a social life wherever you’re living, you’ll be reluctant to ignore friends and social engagements to strike up new, more difficult social relationships in another language. Starting from scratch is easier because you don’t have anything to compete with.

None of this should be taken as an impenetrable barrier. Of course, if I were really serious, I could overcome these challenges and improve my Korean. However, as I think about it more, I’m inclined to focus more on improving my Chinese.

Is It Better to Master One Language or Be Adequate at a Few?

One idea I’ve written about before is the idea that there are some things worth learning well and others worth learning poorly. Meaning, that some skills, if you learn just a little bit of them, will reap most of the rewards. In contrast, other skills are only worth learning if you intend to get very good at them.

I suggested languages were something worth learning poorly. Because if you know a little bit of a language, you can do quite a bit with it. No, you might not be able to fluently discuss politics or philosophy, but you can easily travel and communicate with people who speak that language but not yours. A little bit of language is a good thing.

I stand by that opinion, at the lower ranges of language learning. However, my feeling is that once you get past the intermediate level of a language, the next cluster of benefits come at a much higher level.

To express this idea concretely, if you were looking at a graph of the benefits of learning a language, you’d see a spike at the early levels, corresponding with suddenly being able to order food, travel and have simple communication with people. Then you’d see a second spike at a level near complete fluency, corresponding to being able to do deeply functional things in the language like negotiate business, work professionally, consume media, etc..

For all of the languages I’ve learned, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Mandarin Chinese and Korean, I feel like my ability is above the first spike. I can do all the basic things pretty easily, and I’ve practiced them enough that I’m unlikely to forget them for a long time.

However, for Mandarin Chinese (and possibly Spanish), I’m beginning to notice the second spike. During my last trip to China, I was able to give two live talks in Chinese, as well as discuss business with some potential colleagues. That’s a different set of benefits I’m only starting to tap into.

Where I find myself with the other languages is more of the gulf between the easy benefits of low-to-intermediate abilities, but still a long way from the hard benefits of being a fluent speaker.

This leads me to think that, for now, I’m going to strive to push further with Chinese rather than try to continue the level-up with Korean.

Weighing in on the Mastery/Polyglot Debate

There’s a bit of debate about whether you should master a single language or dabble in a bunch. I think part of the heat of this debate is fueled by the perceived impressiveness. That is to say, a polyglot who speaks many languages, is often seen as very impressive, even if their ability with any particular language is actually quite low. Whereas, someone truly fluent might actually have done a lot more work, and thus be more deserving of praise.

Side note: Honestly impressiveness is probably the worst reason to learn any language, never mind a bunch of them. Telling people you speak multiple languages is usually awkward and conceited. Them finding out usually results in skepticism or trying to “test” you. This isn’t to say nobody finds it interesting, but just to say that if you’re learning languages with the purpose of seeming “cool” you’re going to have a bad time.

I think the benefits of language learning are mostly intrinsic. From that perspective, there’s two broad sets of benefits, one that comes early on and one that comes much later. Whether you favor full fluency in a single language or adequacy in several depends a lot on which benefit matters to you more.

I would lump the early benefits into two broad categories. The first are travel benefits, meaning that you can now travel in countries that speak that language with much greater ease. The second are cultural bridging benefits, allowing you to interact with monolingual speakers of that language, which helps you get outside your own cultural bubble.

The later benefits mostly have to do with deeper experiences. Interacting meaningfully with native media (novels, movies, music). Working professionally or studying in the language.

Because the early benefits can be reached much faster, they don’t require as long a commitment and it’s possible to reach that level in multiple languages within a few years. This is great if you want to explore the world and dip into different cultures and experiences. The later benefits take a lot more work, so it’s usually a decades-long project.

What Do You Think?

The tl;dr version of my views right now are:

Maintain adequacy in multiple languages.

Focus on getting really good at one (maybe two).

I’m curious, however, what your views are. Do you speak more than one language? If so, why did you do so? If you speak multiple languages, do you focus on one, or improve them all evenly?

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts in the comments.

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clapway · 7 years

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Learning the Chinese Language – Way to Gain Mileage in Your Business with China

Although English has long been the universal language of business, the Mandarin Chinese is gaining popularity quite steadily. For many countries trying to establish business overseas, English is ubiquitous. However, the tables have turned and business is booming in the orient. Chinese is growing in popularity among the common languages of trade. For those trying to understand and learn Mandarin Chinese, you need to know about the nitty-gritty of the language.

Of course, the Chinese language categories, tutors, and even PC programs can facilitate the introduction and learning process. However, I found the most effective method of learning the language to be the old school immersive learning that can only be achieved by either renting a loft in China Town or by actually sampling the Chinese culture by visiting China. Immersing yourself in a completely different culture triggers the exponential phase of your learning curve. I found that comparatively few people in China were ready to communicate in English and that left me with no other option than pick up their native language quickly. It was more of a question of survival rather than the knack for learning a new language that got me fluent in Mandarin.

One specific feature of the Chinese culture that I found extremely intriguing was the use of gestures and body language to communicate. When two people communicate, a slight nod of their head or a small hand gesture may signify more than words can convey. This is one lesson you can never learn from online classes or crash courses on Mandarin Chinese. In China, it is common for people to communicate without saying a word. And the portrayal of Chinese men and women as taciturn hermits may even be true to some extent when you consider their undeniable skills of non-verbal communication.

“When in Rome be a roman” and when in China, you better learn Mandarin! If you have any business interest in China. It may be export, import or setting up a place of business in the country, you should to learn the Chinese language to get that extra edge in your business opportunities. Learning the language is not so much for the love of the language. But it has to do more with sending a signal of growing cultural interest in the country and its people. The people of the country will consider it as a sign of getting closer. This can break the barriers of culture that can often inhibit business initiatives. Indeed, learning the Chinese language does not guarantee your success in business but it can show you the way to success.

Learn Chinese in America

As Westerners are eager to learn Mandarin Chinese, the government of China has also taken a keen interest in making the language easily accessible in the western countries especially in the U.S. Mandarin is being popularized in the U.S. through special initiatives of the Chinese government. The Government of China has offered subsidies to quite a few American Universities and high schools for teaching the language. This is a measure that the Chinese government has taken to strengthen its soft power in places that can influence the country’s economy. A basic knowledge of the language makes it easier and indeed more interesting for people to start their business in China.

It’s taught in Singapore too

There are quite a few other places where you get the opportunity of learning the Chinese language. Singapore has been a prime location for learning Chinese fast and effectively. There are institutes dedicated to teaching mandarin and you can even avail the facility of a home Chinese tutor Singapore. The home-tutoring option offers a more dedicated learning process for the non-Mandarin speakers who are looking for one-on-one, expert guidance. Since the population of Singapore is dominated by people of Chinese origin, almost 74% of the population is Chinese but only a slim fraction speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese. It is no surprise that the demand for learning Chinese is quite high in this country. Chinese is one of the most spoken languages in Singapore. As a matter of fact, it is one of its national languages along with English, Malay and Tamil. As more and more westerners are moving to Singapore for lucrative job opportunities, the demand for in-home Chinese language tutors and grooming classes are also steadily increasing.

Business can spread far and wide

Learning Mandarin Chinese is a wonderful way to expand your business horizons. Mandarin Chinese is undoubtedly a difficult language to master. It might not be even possible for you to speak it fluently in the first couple of months. But with time, you will realize the immense advantages of knowing the language once you start making trips to the east for business purposes. This will contribute to the interactions with people on the ground and it can give your business the much needed boost on foreign soil. You will be able to penetrate deeper into the country and understand the nuances of the Chinese culture, instead of catering to the Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities where English is selectively accepted.

Tier 3 and tier 4 cities are gradually coming up with fresh business opportunities and virgin territories where western business can spread without bounds. But the only requirement for these tier 3 and tier 4 cities is fluency in the Chinese languages. English is rarely understood or appreciated in these cities.

Add an extra charm to public speaking

Believe it or not, most Fortune 500 company CEOs are running after Mandarin lessons after Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his expertise in the language. This is especially rewarding if you are looking forward to presenting a slideshow or speaking at a seminar in any city of China. Standing up in front of a crowd can be frightening, and it can be even more frightening if you don’t understand a word they are speaking. So learning Mandarin if you are looking for a speaker’s job in the orient is definitely a smart move if you want to woo the crowd and make sure they listen to what you have to say.

Business might appear to be restricted to formal meetings but its seeds are sown during informal interactions with your business partners. Cocktail dinners, pool-side extravaganzas, and golf games have seen more business contracts being sealed than corporate conference rooms with an artificial environment. Speaking in their language gives you the advantage of working your way into their hearts with ease. Better bonding results in better business, and there’s no better way to bond with a person than speaking with him/her in his/her mother tongue.

Conclusion

China is already the second-largest economy in the world and it’s no wonder, Mandarin has grown to be the second most popular language as well. All smart entrepreneurs of the day are taking special classes to learn Mandarin, and fast! Mandarin will soon become quite mandatory for all businessmen looking to get a foothold in China.

#business #China #Chinese #Chinese language #language #Marketing

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