Denison Witmer for English - 2008 Sep 07
(Tags: linguistics, music, teaching)
Animals as Language Partners - 2008 Aug 10
(Tags: animals, Brad, linguistics, the wife)
Mini-Interview with The World - 2008 Jul 12
(Tags: current events, elsewhere, linguistics, pronunciation)
My God - 2008 Jun 22
(Tags: linguistics, religion, teaching)
Pinyin VS Hard Work - 2008 Jun 01
(Tags: Chinese characters, linguistics, other blogs, pinyin)
A Chinese Character for Sad People - 2008 May 26
(Tags: Chinese characters, linguistics, other blogs)
No Chinese Story Voices - 2008 May 06
(Tags: comments, linguistics)
Sign Language Expression VS Chinese Culture - 2008 May 02
(Tags: Alice, linguistics, sign language)
The Contempt of the Powerful and the Term Laowai - 2008 Feb 03
(Tags: language, laowai, linguistics, other blogs, Spanish)
Seeing the Tones of Mandarin Chinese with Praat - 2008 Jan 21
(Tags: linguistics, tones)
Filthy Delicious - 2007 Dec 16
(Tags: Chinese characters, food, language, linguistics, observations, pronunciation)
Plan G - 2007 Dec 15
(Tags: grad school, linguistics)
Why You Shouldn’t Try to Learn Turkish - 2007 Nov 18
(Tags: grammar, linguistics, travel, Turkey)
Chinese Learners Wanted - 2007 Nov 08
(Tags: grad school, linguistics)
Thesis Proposal in China - 2007 Jun 21
(Tags: grad school, linguistics, tones, 华师大)
Grammaticalization: Articles for Chinese? - 2007 May 16
(Tags: boring, grad school, grammar, linguistics)
Slag-hit Bank - 2007 Apr 07
(Tags: elsewhere, linguistics)
Semantic Flavors of “My” in Chinese and English - 2007 Mar 26
(Tags: grad school, linguistics)
How China Destroys Your English - 2007 Feb 10
(Tags: linguistics, observations)
Thoughts on Simplification - 2007 Jan 12
(Tags: Chinese characters, John B, linguistics)
New Feature: Mandarin Chinese Tone Pair Drills - 2006 Oct 29
(Tags: Chinese study, linguistics, site news, tones)
Metrosexual: 9 Chinese Translations - 2006 Oct 22
(Tags: grad school, linguistics, Pepe, sex, translation)
“Obsolete” Chinese Words - 2006 Oct 02
(Tags: elsewhere, linguistics, other blogs)
The triple ‘dui’ - 2006 Sep 24
(Tags: ChinesePod, linguistics)
Critical Discourse Analysis in China - 2006 Sep 21
(Tags: advertising, grad school, linguistics)
Papers, New Classes, and Friends - 2006 Sep 11
(Tags: Alf, grad school, Greg, John B, linguistics, Pepe)
Tone Deafness and Whispering Doesn’t Stop Tones - 2006 Aug 22
(Tags: linguistics, tones)
Chinaversary - 2006 Aug 20
(Tags: linguistics, personal)
Chatting with Dr. Tim Xie - 2006 Aug 06
(Tags: blogging, ChinesePod, education, linguistics)
Pu-what-hua? - 2006 Jun 01
(Tags: linguistics, Shanghainese)
Craisins for China - 2006 May 14
(Tags: culture, food, linguistics, Shanghai, USA)
Speech Act Rules and the Weak - 2006 Apr 28
(Tags: grad school, linguistics, racism, society)
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)
Classes in Brief - 2005 Sep 29
(Tags: grad school, linguistics, 华师大)
My Textbook on Dialects - 2005 Sep 02
(Tags: books, Chinese study, language, linguistics, Shanghainese)
Inscrutable Characters - 2005 Jun 09
(Tags: Chinese characters, linguistics, other blogs)
Diagramming Fun - 2005 May 26
(Tags: boring, Chinese study, diagramming, grammar, linguistics)
Multisyllabic Hanzi? - 2005 May 05
(Tags: Chinese characters, Chinese study, Japanese, language, linguistics)
Code Switching in the Car - 2004 Dec 09
(Tags: language, linguistics, Shanghai, Shanghainese)
2 weeks - 2004 Sep 24
(Tags: books, comics, linguistics, music, personal, video games)
Verbal Horror - 2002 Sep 16
(Tags: culture, diarrhea, language, linguistics)
Linguistics, Anyone? - 2002 Sep 15
(Tags: books, Chinese study, language, linguistics, teaching)
John has lived in China for 8.1 years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and Asia.