Variable Stroke Order in Chinese Characters - 2008 Aug 19
(Tags: Chinese characters, Japanese, language)
The Contempt of the Powerful and the Term Laowai - 2008 Feb 03
(Tags: language, laowai, linguistics, other blogs, Spanish)
Arashi no Yoru ni: DVD Audio as Listening Material - 2008 Jan 14
(Tags: Chinese study, DVDs, Japanese, John B, language, other blogs)
Filthy Delicious - 2007 Dec 16
(Tags: Chinese characters, food, language, linguistics, observations, pronunciation)
How to Evaluate a Random Language for Acquisition in an Hour - 2007 Nov 12
Examining the Halfpat - 2007 Nov 05
(Tags: language, other blogs)
Fabricating the Known from the Unknown - 2007 Oct 27
(Tags: language, personal, Shanghainese, Spanish)
Your Chinese Is Not Standard - 2007 Jul 29
Misheard in Chinese - 2007 Jun 23
How I Learned Chinese (part 2) - 2007 May 13
(Tags: Chinese study, Hangzhou, language, personal)
Character-based Sign Language - 2007 Apr 11
(Tags: Chinese characters, language, sign language)
Secret Language Motivations - 2007 Mar 01
Medicine Ingredients = Pun Ingredients - 2006 Nov 10
(Tags: advertising, John B, language)
Jacob’s Creek - 2006 Jun 25
(Tags: language, marketing, translation)
Unexpectedly Pregnant - 2006 Jun 14
(Tags: language)
surfer, muppet, gun, redrum, fist - 2006 Jun 07
The Myth of Round-eye - 2006 May 27
Earning Love - 2006 May 25
Mandarin Tone Changes - 2006 Mar 29
(Tags: Chinese study, language, pronunciation, tones)
Chinese Parts of Speech - 2006 Mar 20
(Tags: grad school, grammar, language, linguistics)
Learning East Asian Communicative Grunts - 2006 Mar 16
(Tags: Japanese, language, linguistics, Micah, music)
Weight Loss Pun #2 - 2006 Mar 05
(Tags: advertising, language)
Bad Sample Sentences - 2006 Feb 25
Irate Football Fan - 2006 Feb 20
Chinese Grammar Issues - 2006 Feb 16
Defense and Defecation - 2006 Feb 15
(Tags: language, other blogs)
Inherent human worth - 2006 Feb 09
Laowai Delusions of Fluency - 2005 Dec 06
(Tags: Chinese study, girlfriend, language, laowai)
Characters and Shapes - 2005 Oct 14
(Tags: Chinese characters, language)
Weight Loss Pun - 2005 Sep 22
(Tags: advertising, language)
My Textbook on Dialects - 2005 Sep 02
(Tags: books, Chinese study, language, linguistics, Shanghainese)
The name “Baidu” - 2005 Aug 02
(Tags: Baidu, elsewhere, language, translation)
Pei Sei - 2005 Jul 12
(Tags: Chinese, culture, girlfriend, language, USA)
Talk Talk - 2005 Jul 07
(Tags: Beijing, CBL, elsewhere, funny, language, other blogs, Shanghai, taxis)
Origin of Koi - 2005 Jun 30
Animal Names from Animal Names - 2005 Jun 13
(Tags: animals, Chinese, Chinese characters, Chinese study, language, vocabulary)
Episode 3 in China - 2005 May 22
(Tags: language, movies, Star Wars, vocabulary)
Laowai Time Warp - 2005 May 17
(Tags: culture, elsewhere, language, laowai, other blogs, vocabulary, work)
Of Note - 2005 May 14
(Tags: elsewhere, language, laowai, other blogs, tech)
eBay and Wordplay - 2005 May 11
(Tags: advertising, current events, language, vocabulary)
Multisyllabic Hanzi? - 2005 May 05
(Tags: Chinese characters, Chinese study, Japanese, language, linguistics)
Bollywood Pickup Lines - 2005 Apr 29
(Tags: entertainment, funny, India, language, movies, romance)
Respectful Characters - 2005 Apr 12
(Tags: language)
Not that She - 2005 Apr 06
(Tags: language)
One character said to the other… - 2005 Apr 04
(Tags: language)
Shanghailander! - 2005 Apr 01
(Tags: language)
Closer Subtitle Surrealism - 2005 Mar 23
(Tags: classic, entertainment, funny, language, movies, observations, piracy)
Big Fish in a Small Pond - 2005 Mar 15
(Tags: language)
Bitch Day - 2005 Mar 08
Picking at Alternative Word Choice - 2005 Mar 07
Wuhan and Auspicious Beasts - 2005 Mar 04
(Tags: culture, language, travelogue)
Pronunciation: Chinese and Japanese - 2005 Feb 01
(Tags: language)
A Record of Spoken Chinese - 2005 Jan 06
(Tags: language)
Christmas Calvin & Hobbes - 2004 Dec 24
(Tags: comics, entertainment, language, translation)
Code Switching in the Car - 2004 Dec 09
(Tags: language, linguistics, Shanghai, Shanghainese)
Eat Poop You Cat - 2004 Nov 28
(Tags: Alf, Carl, culture, entertainment, girlfriend, language)
Hunting! Ha ha! - 2004 Nov 24
Calvin & Hobbes in Chinese! - 2004 Nov 15
(Tags: comics, entertainment, girlfriend, language, translation)
To hanzify or not to hanzify… - 2004 Nov 02
(Tags: language)
Translation Runaround - 2004 Oct 24
(Tags: language, other blogs)
Accent - 2004 Aug 06
What Does an Alien Sound Like When it Speaks Chinese? - 2004 Jul 16
Debating “You’re Welcome” - 2004 May 18
(Tags: language, vocabulary)
Creeping Japanese - 2004 May 14
Alcohol Vocab - 2004 May 11
(Tags: Chinese study, language, site news, vocabulary)
Dwarfism and Chinese - 2004 May 06
EFL for Chinese learners - 2004 Apr 08
(Tags: language)
Preferred Nomenclature - 2004 Apr 05
(Tags: language)
Foreigners’ Names in Chinese and Japanese - 2004 Mar 22
Shanghainese: a Flash soundboard - 2004 Mar 18
(Tags: Chinese study, language, Shanghai, site news)
Chinese Fonts - 2003 Dec 09
Wang’s Observations - 2003 Nov 18
(Tags: Chinese study, culture, language, observations, teaching)
Who’s Ed? - 2003 Nov 10
(Tags: language, observations)
Rainbow - 2003 Oct 04
(Tags: language, other blogs)
Chinese Pronunciation - 2003 Sep 20
(Tags: Chinese study, language, site news)
Unicode with Blogger - 2003 Sep 10
Google Dictionary? - 2003 Aug 14
(Tags: language)
Studying Chinese - 2003 Aug 10
Koopa in China? - 2003 Jul 27
(Tags: entertainment, language, music, Spanish, video games)
A Madman’s Diary - 2003 May 10
English only, please — this is China - 2003 Apr 13
(Tags: classic, culture, language, observations)
“Dialects” in China - 2003 Jan 19
Verbal Horror - 2002 Sep 16
(Tags: culture, diarrhea, language, linguistics)
Linguistics, Anyone? - 2002 Sep 15
(Tags: books, Chinese study, language, linguistics, teaching)
Flashback: Aug. 25, 2000 - 2002 Jul 24
John has lived in China for 8 years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and Asia.