My 3 year old black lab helps kick off the conversation by needing to be expelled from my office, so we begin by talking about petting the dog, segue to burping babies, then glide into discussing Continue Reading
Video Lesson – I Want to Hold Your Hand 我想要握著你的手
When your house is drafty, what do you hold in your hands? In discussing this, we again come across how to say something in Chinese when a preposition is used very naturally in English. If you don't Continue Reading
Video Lesson – Making the Best of a Cold Winter 在寒冷的冬天裡過得最好
The preface to this discussion is how late Vesta sleeps in and how people make excuses for things. She also talks about giving my brain time to warm up to using Chinese, since I am not surrounded Continue Reading
Chinese Lesson Blurb: English Homonyms for Spring 春天 and 泉
Spring into the spring in spring It is unpredictable what will cause a communication glitch. For instance, in a recent Firecracker video chat (to become a FLC Firecracker member, read here), we Continue Reading
Video Lesson – Begin by Following Your Heart, Because Time Flies 你應該隨心所欲地
One week after moving, I feel like time is flying by out of control, but Vesta assures me that the video chat is a low pressure time. We can do as we like with the chat time (see vocabulary chart Continue Reading
Video Lesson – Who is Spying on You Through Your Computer 誰藉著電腦暗中監視你?
Vesta has a good friend who is a computer geek. He has warned her about people spying on her via her computer and she showed up at the video chat with tape over her computer camera... After a brief Continue Reading