Tag: Chinese lessons
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Week 13, Learning Chinese by Reading the Newspaper and My New Alarm Clock
They say that time flies as your get older. A day that used to take forever zips by in the blink of an eye. I couldn’t agree more. As I sit here now on a Friday morning (my only day off), I realize it’s already the end of Week 12 out of the 16/17 weeks we run…
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End of term and an update on my progress in the Chinese language
School School is all but over as exams are done and now it’s just finalizing te grades. Since I work at one of the better universities in the country (a fact of which I am honoured), the grading is necessarily super tough. A lot of these kids put in a lot of work but the…
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November 25, 2014: APEC, War, and Chinese Lessons
It’s midterm exam time so students are (supposed to be) busy studying while us professors have the added responsibility of administering and grading the exams. APEC The 22nd annual APEC Summit ended a few weeks ago and the recent issue of the Beijing Review covers the meeting. One thing I found interesting was the order…