Hong Kong is a jungle. Which is where fluent Mandarin-speaker Chris Lonsdale is an elephant spotter, and why he is in Tokyo to take a five-day right-brain drawing course.

As he explains: "I work with businesspeople -- CEOs, senior management teams, entrepreneurs -- and also individuals in transition to identify problems and change things in a positive way. It ties in with the workshop I'm doing with RBR" -- the RBR Center for Creative Arts in Moto-Azabu, Tokyo -- "to change my perception of the creative process."

Chris is equally fired up about his hot-off-the press self-published book, "The Third Ear." Having discovered that an important key to language learning is to re-connect with your own language learning intuition, the book shows a new way of thinking and learning, that will help you pick up a new language quickly and easily.