Chris Lonsdale (entrepreneur)

Christopher John Lonsdale (born 18 November 1958) is a New Zealand psychologist, linguist and educator. His adopted Chinese name, Dragon Tiger, is 龙飞虎 (Traditional Chinese: 龍飛虎; pinyin: lóng fēi hǔ). Lonsdale created the Kungfu English learning system and is also the author of "The Third Ear".
Lonsdale graduated from the University of Canterbury in 1980 with first-class honours. After graduation, he moved to China to study Mandarin Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University, and martial arts at the Beijing Sport University. He has also participated in qigong movements in China.
In 1984, Lonsdale moved to Hong Kong, where he learned Cantonese. His book, "The Third Ear", is based on his personal experience of learning foreign languages and his training in psychology. He theorized the role of comprehensible input works and physiological training for the acquisition process of any language into the timespan of some months.