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If you haven’t heard by now, China is facing somewhat of a crisis at one of it’s most important travel dates. The spread of a virus known as the Coronavirus (because it looks like a crown under the microscope) hit the city of WuHan a couple months back but didn’t get serious until just recently.…

It’s almost here and the city is emptying out as a result. With that comes some peace and quiet and fewer stores open. This is, of course, time for the Lunar New Year, what the Ukrainians call Malanka and the Chinese call Spring Festival. It marks the end of the really cold days of winter…

So it’s been two weeks so far of trying to learn Japanese. So far it hasn’t been too painful mostly because the APPs I’m using have made it quite easy. I’ve restricted the number of sources I use in an effort to concentrate on only a few things at once and learn them thoroughly. Here…

In another attempt to get a bit more exercise, I’ve started to use the share bikes available around Beijing. You’ll recall that I wrote about when these first showed up in Haidian (the university student district) when MoBike first became available. Since then, there have been many other similar services that have popped up: Ofo,…

So I had this crazy idea. You might recall I published an article a few weeks back about a few things to keep in mind when learning a language. That post was partly inspired by the book I have just finished reading titled Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners…