Precision meets fluency
Martin 马丁
Business Professional你好，我叫Martin，德国人。我八年前从法兰克福搬到深圳，管理供应链团队。工作中我每天都用中文，同事们说我说话比很多中国人还客气。我觉得学语言就像做工程，要一步一步、认认真真地来。
Nǐ hǎo, wǒ jiào Martin, Déguó rén. Wǒ bā nián qián cóng Fǎlánkèfú bāndào Shēnzhèn, guǎnlǐ gōngyìngliàn tuánduì. Gōngzuò zhōng wǒ měitiān dōu yòng Zhōngwén, tóngshìmen shuō wǒ shuōhuà bǐ hěn duō Zhōngguó rén hái kèqi. Wǒ juéde xué yǔyán jiù xiàng zuò gōngchéng, yào yī bù yī bù, rènren-zhēnzhēn de lái.
"Hello, I'm Martin, from Germany. I moved from Frankfurt to Shenzhen eight years ago to manage a supply-chain team. I use Chinese every day at work, and my colleagues say I speak more politely than most native speakers. I think learning a language is like engineering — you have to take it step by step, carefully and precisely."
工欲善其事，必先利其器。
A craftsman must first sharpen his tools.
About Martin
Martin moved from Frankfurt to Shenzhen eight years ago to manage a supply-chain operations team, and somewhere along the way he fell in love with Chinese language and culture. His Mandarin is precise and formal — every measure word correct, every 请 in place. Colleagues joke that he speaks more politely than most native speakers. He thrives in business contexts and meeting rooms, and his exercises on Mandarin Temple reflect that: professional, structured, and vocabulary-rich. Outside work, he quietly studies classical Chinese poetry, insisting that 李白 was the world's first great copywriter.
Personality
Hobbies
- Classical Chinese poetry
- German-Chinese translation
- Cycling along Shenzhen Bay
- Wine tasting
- Building mechanical keyboards
Goals
- Achieve native-level business writing
- Translate Li Bai into German
- Build a bridge between European and Chinese business cultures
His colleagues call him "马总" (Boss Ma) because his surname in Chinese — 马丁 — starts with the same character as Jack Ma's.
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