T·富勒曾经说过：
那些最能充分利用时间的人根本腾不出多余的时间。
看来我就是那种“最能充分利用时间的人”因为我连写好中文blog的时间都没有！
我没有放弃我的中文blog………
13
Apr
2006
2006
Wanted: Good Chinese Podcasts
I’d like to find some good Chinese podcasts. I don’t mean podcasts for studying Chinese, I mean podcasts in Chinese, intended for a Chinese audience. Interesting podcasts. The only problem is I don’t have a lot of time to search and then listen to all those podcasts. So I asked around a bit.
As it turns out, CSL blogger extraordinaire Alaric listens to a few Chinese podcasts. These are the ones he listens to:
11
Apr
2006
2006
Who Wants to be a Patriotic Millionaire?
I have this bad habit of randomly sampling Chinese Flash animations and games from time to time. Recently I found this trivia game called 百萬富翁遊戲：愛國版 (Millionaire Game: Patriot Edition). It’s got trivia questions mainly relating to the Opium War and Republican China. I have never been a very good student of history, so between my ignorance and the annoying traditional characters it took me a few tries to win the game. But now I feel confident enough to take on …
09
Apr
2006
2006
The Best Chinese Textbooks
So now that I’m working on the academic side of ChinesePod one of the first things I want to do is start expanding the Chinese pedagogy resource library. There are all kinds of great resources out there, but what I want to focus on first is the more complete sets intended for formal education. I want to collect the best Chinese textbooks.
When I first began studying Chinese at University of Florida in 1998, we used a series by Yale …
07
Apr
2006
2006
Toenail Terror in the Foot Bath
OK, we all know how we are supposed to trim our toenails, right? Always straight across. eHow says:
Cut toenails straight across and avoid cutting them too short; otherwise, you might get ingrown toenails (a condition in which edges of toenails push into the skin).
Just to make this absolutely clear, let me provide a visual aid:
| Right | Wrong |
Recently I went on a trip to Wuyuan with some other ECNU students, and I went to our hotel’s …
06
Apr
2006
2006
Bulk pricing at last?
It seems hard to believe, but bulk pricing is hard to find in China. When I had only been in China for about a year, I would typically have conversations like this with supermarket clerks:
Me: How much for one?
Clerk: 5 rmb.
Me: OK, how about if I buy this 6-pack?
Clerk: (looking at me like I’m a little slow) 30 rmb.
Me: OK, then this whole case of 24?
Clerk: (wondering what’s wrong with me) 120 rmb. Like
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05
Apr
2006
2006
Like Syntax from Takeshi
Kitano Takeshi
This is a picture of Kitano Takeshi (北野武), AKA “Beat Takeshi.” (I always find his Chinese name, Běiyě Wǔ, surreally different from his Japanese name.) My syntax teacher looks a lot like this guy, except for having smile lines around his eyes instead of Takeshi’s perpetual mask of indifference. They seem to share a love of the cigarette.
So sometimes when I’m listening to a lecture on Chinese syntax, my teacher’s visage sends my mind back to a …
03
Apr
2006
2006
ChinesePod and me
ChinesePod has been generating buzz online for some time among those of us who are interested in new methods of studying Mandarin Chinese, and yet you haven’t heard a peep out of me about it (OK, maybe one peep). There’s a reason, so let me explain.
When I first discovered ChinesePod months ago, I thought, “that’s kinda cool, but a podcast a day? Let’s see how long they can keep that up.” Well, they did keep it up, and …
02
Apr
2006
2006
Chinese Number Tool
A little while back I recommended that Mark of the blog Doubting to shuō make an online number conversion tool similar to his Pinyin Tone Tool and Cantonese Tone Tool. Well, Mark has done it. These are the kinds of conversions it can do:
| Input | Output |
| 五千八百 | 5800 |
| 兩百五十 | 250 |
| 三百萬 | 3000000 |
| 三百万 | 3000000 |
| 7十 | 70 |
| 九億 | 900000000 |
| 九亿 | 900000000 |
| 6.25亿 | 625000000 |
| 1500万 | 15000000 |
| 五億三千九百二十萬四千四百四十一 | 539204441 |
| 壹仟叄佰柒拾捌 | 1378 |
Note that the Chinese Number Tool handles simplified, traditional, and …
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