As I was quite active in the blogger scene (if you can call it that) up in Dalian, and had met a few good friends because of it, I was eager to check out what Suzhou had in way of bloggers when I first moved down here two years ago.
At the time the only blog [...]
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Tagged with: chabuduo • china blogsphere • Learning Chinese • online friends • rao kou ling • suzhou expats |
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ChinesePod.com, one of the pioneers for learning languages via podcasts, has recently relaunched their affiliate program, and I gotta say, it’s better than ever.
An affiliate program might not mean much to many of you, but I know a lot of folks that read this blog regularly also run their own China-related blogs and sites, and [...]
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Tagged with: chinesepod • Learning Chinese • mandarin • podcasts |
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As some of you may know, I’m enrolled at Suzhou University (or Soochow University, SuDa) studying Mandarin. Having just completed my mid-terms, I want to give a bit of a summary on the problems I see studying in this way.
First, the title of this post is a bit of a misnomer, as overall I really [...]
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Tagged with: chinese universities • Learning Chinese • mandarin • studying chinese |
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Over the past couple years of half-heartedly studying Chinese I’ve come across a good number of computer-based tools to help in my studies.
ChinesePod, Google’s IME, Adsotrans and Google Translator, Wenlin and a bunch of great freeware and Firefox plugins - just to name a few.
However, about two months ago I was casually browsing the local [...]
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Tagged with: chinese-writing • handwriting • hanzi • Learning Chinese |
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My road through the Chinese language has been a bumpy one full of roundabouts and dead-ends. In the more than two years I’ve been here I’ve not had any formal Chinese education, and I’ve really no excuse for it.
I’m often praised and then quickly chastised by Chinese co-workers on my level of Chinese. When they [...]
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Tagged with: Chinese-language • foreign-language • Learning Chinese • mandarin • putonghua • suzhou-university |
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