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Two neat Mandarin-related news bits

April 10, 2008 at 02:08 AM

So, I'm a bit of a language nut (studying linguistics), and I have some RSS feeds set up through Google Reader. Two of them are language and linguistics related.... Read more

富都 in Google Earth

April 09, 2008 at 10:05 PM

At 31°14'3.79"N 121°29'45.02"E (Shanghai pudong at Huangpu river bank) you can see some Chinese characters in Google Earth. Together with t... Read more

grammar : split 起来

April 09, 2008 at 12:51 PM

We know the Verb-起来 (qǐlai) construct, to start doing sth or an upward action. I can't quite remember the mnemonic John once mentioned but here's a few examp... Read more

How do you know when you are eating real Chinese Food?

April 09, 2008 at 10:49 AM

I loved Bazza's post on Addiction to Chinese. Therefore, I thought I might create some more trouble. http://chinesepod.com/connections/viewpost/bazza... ... &nbs... Read more

A totally irrelevant question

April 09, 2008 at 08:35 AM

How come Kyle is high on the most active user list, but his last post dates 1 Dec 2007? Can you become most active user by diligently using Cpod without ever posting... Read more

我都累了 - Chinese grammar and Star Trek physics

April 09, 2008 at 06:14 AM

Yesterday evening I said to my wife 我都累了 - which I also used in a post before.The answer was: "That sentence is not correct!". I asked why and got the repl... Read more

创世记 - 8; Genesis - 8

April 08, 2008 at 07:37 PM

Audio for all of Genesis (28mb) Chapter 8 - 25:43 to 28:39 1 神记念挪亚和挪亚方舟里的一切走兽牲畜。神叫风吹地，水势渐落。 2 渊源和天上的窗户都闭塞了，天上的大雨也止住了。 3 水从地上渐退。过了一百五十天，水就渐消。 4 七月十七日，方舟停在亚拉腊山上。 5 水又渐... Read more

Writing Chinese Characters, pinyin and english in MS Word.

April 08, 2008 at 05:43 PM

Hi - just wondering if anyone had tips on how to create word documents like the pdf scripts that come along with the ChinesePod lessons. I have taking a Chinese Mand... Read more

Mandaren Chinese?

April 08, 2008 at 04:48 PM

I came across the word 满大人 (Mǎndàrén) this morning on while preparing my practice on history.  Wenlin translates this as 'Manchu officials; ma... Read more

Are podcasts inferior to text? My reply

April 08, 2008 at 03:37 PM

  I just blogged my reaction to an earlier post about some silly comparisons between text and podcasts. I'd appreciate if you'd go over to my blog and l... Read more