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A good introduction to using the hands signs for Chinese numbers. The post features lovely pictures to illustrate this essential tool for anyone venturing out to a Chinese market.
It's a new twist on globalization: For decades, Chinese made their way to the West, often illegally, to end up doing dangerous, low-paying jobs in sweatshop conditions. Now some foreigners drawn by China's growth and hunger for English lessons are landing in the schoolhouse version of the sweatshop.
An American consular officer's take on a Taiwanese judge declaring an American Woman's English grammar to be "wrong" and deciding against her.
Weren't impressed with Chinese Pod the first time you tried it out? It's worth another look. This review details the dramatic improvements it's made in the last few months.
According to The Economist, Chinese may be a fad for misguided fools. The tonal intricacies and delicate inflections of the Tang tongue are too much for those more accustomed to the Romance languages.
I remember one of the things that I really enjoyed when I was still actively studying Chinese (as opposed to “learning by osmosis,” or being lazy, which is more or less all I do anymore) was finding new characters that were just flat-out cool. Wenlin helped with this, since its character dictionary has got all sorts of obscure, variant, mutant, and otherwise rare characters, characters that don’t get to play with the cool kids in the GB2312 chars...
A funny entry from Violet Eclipse that draws attention to the fact that when speaking Chinese or doing your best to, context is super important.
The thing is, everything in China relies on context. It's kind of like when you meet your boyfriend's friends and they're all "Remember that time? Hahahaha!" while you're all "Hi, I'm Meg". They use these half sentences and references to other things, and even an awesome girlfriend...
A good post from Panda Passport outlining some things anyone considering coming to China to teach should know. If you're thinking about coming to China (to teach or otherwise) this is a must, and if you're already here - read and reminisce.
Struggling to make your way through China's websites and Chinese online content? This article provides a comprehensive collection of Mozilla Firefox plugins to help non-Chinese easily read online Chinese content.
A Chinese author trying to demonstrate the problems of Chinglish in other people's lives, instead shows himself to be fairly confused.
Daniel, who has experience both in Taiwan and on the mainland, offers a counterpoint to Mark's earlier article about how to make money teaching EFL in Taiwan. Daniel details what it takes to run a successful tutoring business as a westerner.
I have been stopped on the street, surreptitiously (and occasionally blatantly) photographed, been offered jobs, interviewed by journalists, and overheard people opine about whether or not they approve of me. But I am not famous. No, my skin, my genetic heritage, my physiology is famous. Because I
A funny post on why so many Laowai guys sound like girls...
A review of a new Chinese language learning software developed by Cornell graduates. A life instructor guides you along the entire program. Fully interactive and beautifully designed.
In China, “Man’s Best Friend” has had a hard lot served him simply from the viewpoint of Chinese language culture. Recently, for the Year of the Dog, one popular gift, to offer wishes of prosperity, was the gift of a dog.
Unfortunately, this gift was seen no differently than the effigy of a dra
A new cartoon from Nickelodeon aimed at the preschool and kindergarten set. Kai-lan is hell bent on teaching your kids Mandarin Chinese and, wait for it... Chinese values.
An interesting post on Danwei regarding Google's translation engine making some pretty serious goofs in English/Chinese translation. This all just furthers my view that online translation continues to suck more than Jenna Jameson working overtime.
Ben's Blog examines the merits and flaws of that lovable penguin perched on the top of 99.99% of Chinese computer desktops.
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