An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

What do you get when you are taking Chinese lessons during the day and watch (subtitled) Japanese television at night?
Yesterday, I heard myself think: wo3 jiao3 Dirk desu! (Basically, a dripping double whopper of “my name is Dirk”, combining Chinese and Japanese.)
Ouch! I wished Chinese television was more interesting so I could switch from Japanese [...]

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I just finished the characters and vocabulary for lesson 4 of Integrated Chinese. Please find it at its usual place, namely /learning-chinese/integrated-chinese.

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I’m visiting my parents over the weekend and when they heard that I was learning Chinese, they posed the following challenge to me: Whether I’d be able to translate for them the text printed or painted on the following plate:

I think I can recognize only about one character! I’m not even sure this is traditional [...]

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I’ve been taking Chinese classes for a couple of weeks now. To aid my learning, I’m creating flashcards for the vocabulary of the Integrated Chinese textbook we are using. I’ve documented how to create these flashcards on a dedicated page, see /learning-chinese/integrated-chinese. Have fun, and let me know if this is useful!

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