My Journey Into Mandarin at the Confucius Institute Suriname
My Journey Into Mandarin at the Confucius Institute Suriname Dajia hao! (Hello everyone! 👋) Shachem Lieuw here, back with another Story Time Productions update! 🎥 Last year, I was a bit quiet on the blog, but if you’ve been following my journey, you know I don't just "sit still." Between my entrepreneurial ventures , tech developments , and various social projects across Suriname, my plate has been overflowing! 🏗️💻 But today, I want to share a very personal project: Learning Mandarin Chinese. 🏮 Reclaiming the Legacy of the Lieuw Name 🧬 For those who see me, I’m a super mixed Surinamese "brown baby," but I carry a Chinese family name with a lot of history. My grandfather and my ancestors all spoke Chinese. My dad is fluent in both Mandarin and Hakka . In fact, Hakka is our true family language—the one my dad learned directly from his grandfather. I realized recently that I didn't want to be the first Lieuw generation to let the language stop with...
