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ALL ABOUT THAT - I have been living in China and am learning my Chinese here. I think a majority of my output mimics the patterns and frequent words in the language... Read more
I am a Chinese and want to study Korean.I would like to find someone who is interested in learning Chinese and good at Korean,so we can teach each other.If you are i... Read more

Rubber bananas

July 16, 2007 at 01:25 AM
A real life example of tones mattering... I was in a coffee shop over the weekend, and a foreign guy and his Chinese girlfriend came in to order a cake. The guy spok... Read more

Joke of the Day (每日笑话) #10

July 15, 2007 at 11:38 PM
“铁公鸡是什么意思?” “谁都知道是‘一毛不拔’嘛!” “对,但你知道它的毛哪儿去了吗?” “不知道,难道你知道?” “是呀,我告诉你吧:铁公鸡的毛早就被铁母鸡拔光了。” “... Read more

Who deleted my last post?

July 15, 2007 at 05:18 PM
I posted something asking about Chinese books that would be interesting to read if only my Chinese was adanced enough ... and now this post is gone, deleted, 没有了. Is... Read more
Grammar: If I want to say "have been" as in "I have been reading at home", how would you say that makingit grammatically correct? "Have been... Read more
              唯一的理由,因为时间就是使一切不发生一次-安德鲁杰克逊(第七位总统的 美国) Read more

Dissing women "wang4" ?

July 15, 2007 at 11:35 AM
IT's ABSURD! - I came across this character (hanzi) today, the more I looked at it, the more I wondered...how does a woman view this character?? 妄 wang4, absurd,... Read more

expansion errors

July 15, 2007 at 11:03 AM
hi you should check the expansions on the elementary "don't do that" lesson. bill Read more

User based vocab?

July 15, 2007 at 10:48 AM
Today I am in Web 2.0 mood...   Just listened to a few podcasts and thought that it would be cool if users could directly add additional vocab to the lessons th... Read more