China’s on its Golden Week break, seven days of no work… but two need to be made up. Why is it like this and what is there to do? Would you dare go anywhere if you know 10,000 other people were doing the same? Tiananmen, the Great Wall, or even Hangz...

Episode 58! APP building begins! Let’s see where this goes? Have some tasks to complete for the weekend, but this course only lasts one month so gotta get them done. Working on a "to do list" agent, multi agents, language agents, all sorts of agents....

SLV Episode 57 Bus adventures! how was it and why did you do it? From Changping to Shuangjing and back again, will be posting this to YouTube. Enjoy your freedom! Enjoy your boredom! It’ll change! Life goes fast! Working on citations and referencing...

Episode 56! Changes in China! No more paper tickets! How important are these anyway?! Didn’t go to the Coffee Show this year, it cost 10 RMB! Australian videos done, where to next? -Dubai? Canada? 14 more weeks! Who’s counting!? -time is flying! And...

Wanted to shoot this outside but then remembered why: mosquitoes. And heat and humidity. New week and we’re back to school! How is it so far? What’s it like and what will we do? -Neat classroom with screens all over the place -Argumentative Essays -C...

Episode 54! Welcome TikTokers! Been active there as of late. New platform to teach on? And what am I hearing people need help on? -Reading and listening (practice dictations - USE THIS PODCAST!!) -Speaking -Not too much for Writing (HERE) -A lot of p...

Episode 53! Saw Dead to Rights (南京照相馆). Heartbreaking. Lots of people die. About the Japanese invasion of Nanjing and how the atrocities were documented. During the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, postman A Chang posed as a photo developer, helping Japan...

Episode 52 already! LIVE STREAM walk n talk! Let’s do this again! What did we see? Question: just what do you have to see when you’re travelling? IELTS Top 10 and FAQ: FREE DOWNLOAD! All over on BMAC: Top 10: buymeacoffee.com/stevenslanguagevlog/e/44...

Episode 51! Not as hot, but still humid here in Beijing. Lots of rain and lots of warnings to stay away from the forests, etc. More Australian videos! A couple more to go! Should we try an ASMR video? (ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)). Th...

With Episode 50 we're back into the groove and thinking about just what makes a book worth saving? Shot from the second floor of the Victoria State Library, we could see that some books were off limits to touch. Why is that and who makes the choice?...