After using some Chinese sentences to check on how Vesta's eyes are doing, we get right to the fun of 難怪. This includes updating the original blog post It is No Wonder 難怪 When we are done Continue Reading

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

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

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

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

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