Understanding the Chinese pronouns that are translated to he, she, or it requires knowing a couple of things. First of all, the pronouns that mean he, she, or it in Chinese all sound the Continue Reading
When the Chicken Tries to Talk with the Duck 雞同鴨講: a Chinese Idiom
當我跟中文老師聊天關於我在墨西哥度假說不同語言的經驗時, (當)(我)(跟)(中文)(老師)(聊天)(關於)... (ㄉㄤ)(ㄨㄛˇ)(ㄍㄣ)(ㄓㄨㄥ ㄨㄣˊ)(ㄌㄠˇ ㄕ)(ㄌㄧㄠˊ ㄊㄧㄢ)(ㄍㄨㄢ ㄩˊ) (dāng)(wǒ)(gēn)(zhōng wén)(lǎo shī)(liáo tiān)(guān yú) (just at)(I)(with)(Chinese Continue Reading
An Interview with My Chinese Tutor
I recently interviewed my Chinese tutor. You can listen to it in the podcast audio above. In the first part of the interview, she answered my questions in Chinese, which I will have written out for Continue Reading
A Simple BoPoMoFo Chart Helps Me Learn Chinese
Bopomofo or pinyin? When I was first learning Chinese, I asked a semi-native Chinese speaker what her recommendation was for learning to read and pronounce Chinese. Was pinyin sufficient or was Continue Reading
A Beginners KTdict Chinese-English iPad Dictionary Tutorial
There are peculiar difficulties in creating and using a Chinese-English dictionary. Mostly this is because of English speakers being used to an alphabetic arrangement, with a phonetic emphasis. Continue Reading
Introducing the Fun Learning Chinese Blog
I have been having a lot of fun learning Chinese! I previously have been blogging about it over at dailyimprovisations.com. now all of the blogs about learning Chinese have been moved over here and Continue Reading