Syntactic Anguish of the Verb-Object-Modifier Variety - 2008 Oct 13
(Tags: Chinese study, grammar)
The Effect of Tonal Language Experience on the Acquisition of Mandarin Tones - 2008 Aug 17
(Tags: Chinese study, grad school, tones)
Talking to Oneself Productively - 2008 Aug 04
(Tags: Chinese study, ChinesePod)
Learning Curves: Chinese vs. Japanese - 2008 Jun 25
(Tags: Chinese study, grammar, Japanese, pronunciation)
Hanging Up in Chinese - 2008 May 13
(Tags: Chinese study, observations)
Kevin Rudd’s Chinese, Analyzed - 2008 Apr 12
(Tags: Chinese study, ChinesePod, current events)
Learning by not looking everything up - 2008 Apr 08
(Tags: Chinese study, ChinesePod, vocabulary)
Arashi no Yoru ni: DVD Audio as Listening Material - 2008 Jan 14
(Tags: Chinese study, DVDs, Japanese, John B, language, other blogs)
How to Learn to Order Food in Chinese - 2007 Nov 29
(Tags: Chinese study, food)
ChinesePod Does Integrated Chinese - 2007 Sep 20
(Tags: Chinese study, ChinesePod, other blogs)
Who can memorize the Chinese family tree? - 2007 Sep 04
(Tags: Chinese study, ChinesePod, culture)
The Bookshelf Problem - 2007 Aug 02
(Tags: books, Chinese study)
How I Learned Chinese (part 2) - 2007 May 13
(Tags: Chinese study, Hangzhou, language, personal)
How I Learned Chinese (part 1) - 2007 May 06
(Tags: Chinese study, personal)
Times Online Fumbles Pinyin - 2007 Feb 13
(Tags: Chinese study, elsewhere)
The Chinese Voices Project - 2007 Jan 20
(Tags: Chinese study, elsewhere)
Mandarin Tone Tricks - 2006 Dec 13
(Tags: Chinese study, mnemonics, other blogs, tones)
New Feature: Mandarin Chinese Tone Pair Drills - 2006 Oct 29
(Tags: Chinese study, linguistics, site news, tones)
Chineseblast - 2006 Sep 19
(Tags: Chinese study, elsewhere, media, YouTube)
Church Boy Badtones - 2006 Sep 03
(Tags: Chinese study, ChinesePod, elsewhere, funny, tones)
Lazy Friday Links - 2006 Jun 09
(Tags: Chinese characters, Chinese study, ChinesePod, elsewhere, Google)
April Chinese Links - 2006 Apr 18
(Tags: Chinese study, elsewhere)
The Best Chinese Textbooks - 2006 Apr 09
(Tags: books, Chinese study, ChinesePod)
ChinesePod and me - 2006 Apr 03
(Tags: Chinese study, ChinesePod, personal, work)
Chinese Number Tool - 2006 Apr 02
(Tags: Chinese study, elsewhere, Mark, numbers)
Mandarin Tone Changes - 2006 Mar 29
(Tags: Chinese study, language, pronunciation, tones)
Vocabulary Lists Are Back! - 2006 Mar 03
(Tags: Chinese study, grad school, site news, vocabulary)
My Chengyu Top Ten - 2005 Dec 21
(Tags: Chinese study)
Foreigners Blogging in Chinese - 2005 Dec 14
(Tags: blogging, CBL, Chinese study, other blogs)
Laowai Delusions of Fluency - 2005 Dec 06
(Tags: Chinese study, girlfriend, language, laowai)
Shanghainese Study Materials - 2005 Nov 15
(Tags: Chinese study, Shanghainese, site news)
Taxis and Rain - 2005 Sep 12
(Tags: Chinese study, taxis, vocabulary, weather)
Chengyu for Superpowers - 2005 Sep 05
(Tags: Chinese study, politics)
My Textbook on Dialects - 2005 Sep 02
(Tags: books, Chinese study, language, linguistics, Shanghainese)
Kingsoft on Chips - 2005 Aug 05
(Tags: Chinese study, elsewhere, PS2, vocabulary)
Animal Names from Animal Names - 2005 Jun 13
(Tags: animals, Chinese, Chinese characters, Chinese study, language, vocabulary)
DONE with exams!!! - 2005 Jun 04
(Tags: Chinese study, exams, grad school, personal, 华师大)
Diagramming Fun - 2005 May 26
(Tags: boring, Chinese study, diagramming, grammar, linguistics)
Calling Hours - 2005 May 21
(Tags: Chinese study, culture, exams, phone calls, teaching)
Recording of my Chinese - 2005 May 15
(Tags: Chinese study, funny, personal)
study make John HONGRY - 2005 May 06
(Tags: Chinese study, food, personal, vocabulary)
Multisyllabic Hanzi? - 2005 May 05
(Tags: Chinese characters, Chinese study, Japanese, language, linguistics)
Stage 1 of the Makeovers Complete - 2005 Apr 08
(Tags: Chinese study, personal, site news)
Getting All Academic - 2005 Mar 11
(Tags: Chinese study)
Chinese Flashcards - 2004 Dec 29
(Tags: Chinese study)
Number Character Variants - 2004 Nov 13
(Tags: Chinese study, numbers)
Hanzi Smatter - 2004 Oct 01
(Tags: Chinese study, other blogs)
Pinyin Tooltips - 2004 Sep 26
(Tags: Chinese study, tech, tutorial)
Getting in Deeper - 2004 Aug 10
(Tags: Chinese study, HSK, work, 华师大)
Alcohol Vocab - 2004 May 11
(Tags: Chinese study, language, site news, vocabulary)
New Blogs for Chinese Study - 2004 Apr 06
(Tags: Chinese study, other blogs)
Shanghainese: a Flash soundboard - 2004 Mar 18
(Tags: Chinese study, language, Shanghai, site news)
HSK Scorecard - 2004 Feb 12
(Tags: Chinese study, HSK)
Pinyin Reader - 2004 Feb 08
(Tags: Chinese study)
Wenlin 3.0 - 2004 Jan 31
(Tags: Chinese study, software)
HSK: the final stretch - 2003 Dec 16
(Tags: Chinese study)
Wang’s Observations - 2003 Nov 18
(Tags: Chinese study, culture, language, observations, teaching)
“Catch and Kill Bill” - 2003 Oct 27
(Tags: Chinese study, culture, DVDs, movies, translation, vocabulary)
Chinese Class Report - 2003 Oct 26
(Tags: Chinese study, HSK)
Craptacular Notes - 2003 Oct 20
(Tags: Chinese study, culture)
Craptaculars - 2003 Oct 19
(Tags: Chinese study, classic, culture)
Too much DNA - 2003 Oct 09
(Tags: Chinese study, food, observations, politics, vocabulary)
Chinese Pronunciation - 2003 Sep 20
(Tags: Chinese study, language, site news)
<gulp!> - 2003 Sep 09
(Tags: Chinese study, HSK)
John in Oz - 2003 Jun 21
(Tags: Brad, CBL, Chinese study, Japan, other blogs, personal, travel, Wilson, ZUCC)
Studying Chinese in Hangzhou - 2003 Jun 04
(Tags: Chinese study, classic, Hangzhou, HSK, ZUCC)
Dashan - 2003 Feb 18
(Tags: celebrities, Chinese study, classic, TV, 大山)
Tutor Update / River Story / Mr. Manners - 2002 Oct 16
(Tags: Chinese study, culture, morality, romance, teaching, work)
Ideal Tutor - 2002 Sep 27
(Tags: Chinese study)
Linguistics, Anyone? - 2002 Sep 15
(Tags: books, Chinese study, language, linguistics, teaching)
John has lived in China for 8.2 years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and Asia.