About John Fotheringham
John Fotheringham is the man behind Language Mastery, which includes one of the longest-running language learning themed podcasts in the world. The Language Mastery show.
On his website, and in his writing he's helping people learn foreign languages, with a particular emphasis on Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin.)
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