I always thought Pilates was pronounced pi-lates or pilots, and could never understand why the Chinese for Pilates was 普拉蒂 and not something like 派类子. Until, of course, I learned that it is pronounced pill-lah-tease.
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I just discovered ProVoc Flashcards via the Chinese Mac group and thought it was worth sharing, as I was not aware of it before and have actively searched for Mac flashcard apps many times in the past. It is in the same league with Genius and iFlash, also both great Mac flashcard apps. What I [...]
Inspired by all the other WordPress.com bloggers blogging in simplified Chinese, both of them (Why so few, I wonder?), I’ve decided to create a new Chinese blog for myself at kaiwen.wordpress.com.
For now I’m just calling it Unedited, which is part of the most recent name of my old Chinese blog, 中文 Unedited, on Spaces (Why [...]
Back when I first started learning Chinese I thought there was no specific word for “trash can.” Looking back, such a thought seems very naive, but I had good reason for believing this at the time. I had tried asking my tutor, and she told me 桶, bucket. I also tried asking other people I [...]
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