I’m giving the Dvorak (not to be confused with John C. Dvorak) keyboard layout a go. It’s not easy learning a new input method, but I believe the claims that it is superior to qwerty to be accurate. After all, it was designed with efficiency in mind, whereas the goal of qwerty was to solve [...]
“Learn three years worth of English in one month!” No, really. In one month memorize 7000 words, read and comprehend English language newspapers and listen and understand CCTV 9 news.
At least, that’s what the spam wedged into my door claims are the results one teacher from Shandong Teachers University can produce. I wonder what Ken [...]
In my Chinese class lately I’ve noticed that I am more hesitant to answer questions than before. I think this is because I have finally started to submit to an Asian view of losing face. My teachers sometimes look at me like I am a bit of an idiot when I give the wrong answer. [...]
We covered chapter 8 in our Survey of Chinese Society text this week. The text is “话说中国人” taken from《读者》1997年第3期，作者张晓风. It’s all about how great Chinese people are.
Can you call one group of people great without implying they are great in comparison to another group? No, you can’t, at least not according to the ancient Chinese [...]
Ever get bored out of your mind while looking up definition after definition of Chinese words? The fix? Weird Al. You can set aside most of your brain to laugh at “My house is so dirty I wipe my feet before I go outside”, while the rest looks up words and copies down definitions.
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