Modern Mongolia

Happy Spring everyone! Did you know that in Mongolia we count winter days with 9 of 9 day cycles and we consider that spring starts after the end of 9th 9 day cycle. We just celebrated Lunar New Year ...

6 Maalis 202322min

Happy New Year! Modern Mongolia is back in 2023. The podcast is restructured with shorter format and will be publishing biweekly. With the new format, there's fun facts, must knows about Mongolia and...

2 Tammi 202314min

Sebastian has been teaching English in Mongolia for last three years. Besides Mongolia, he taught English in several Asian countries including Myanmar, which we discussed a bit about. Unlike the other...

23 Kesä 202134min

Tim decided to accept the job offer in Uvs after visiting and seeing the beautiful Khyargas (Хяргас) lake. It was not only the Mediterranean view of the lakes in the region that convinced him to stay....

20 Touko 20211h 9min

Karolina is a historian, traveler, and minimalist from Poland. She lived in Mongolia for over 8 years studying, working, and traveling. We talked about her study, experience of being a student in Ulaa...

25 Tammi 202142min

Happy 2021! New year, new episode! Dima shared about the challenges of working with locals, how it's like being a Russian, working with students and hitchhiking in Mongolia. Dima on Instagram: dmitry...

4 Tammi 202147min

Andrei is from Romania, doing a cultural anthropology Ph.D in Shanghai, and has been "stuck" in Ulaanbaatar since February lockdown. We had a very interesting talk about how he's surprisingly finding ...

28 Joulu 202048min

Atika is from Indonesia and she works at APU LLC in Ulaanbaatar, as an English teacher. She also has her own podcast "The Frontal Queens" with her friend. We talked about Mongolian food, weather, musi...

21 Joulu 202050min