Tag: Learning Chinese
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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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Will Chinese become a global language like English?
I’ve heard this comment many times from all sorts of people: it’s a good idea to study Chinese now because one day it will either overtake English or become the next global language. Most arguments then mention how many Chinese people there are, I mean, there are 1.3 billion of them! But since coming to China and studying Chinese for just…
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An Update on the Progress of Me Learning Chinese
So some of you may be wondering how my Chinese lessons are going. Well, I have yet to start them this semester. It’s hard to believe that it’s already nearing the end of April and I haven’t taken a class yet. Whether it was sickness or meetings, we just haven’t arranged to get together yet. But it’s not like…
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An Update on the Progress of My Learning of the Chinese Language
I had at least one moment of clarity in the past couple of months: Chinese sounded like a real language. That is to say, after returning to Beijing and spending some time away from the Chinese language, I was on the bus when the computerized voice announced the next stop. Without much thinking (although I was…
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Daily Life, Update on Learning Chinese, Winnipeg Jets, Beijing Film Festival, “Freshmen Fifteen”
Daily Life Days start early now, it’s light out around 5 am and is dark by about 7 pm. I’m told it doesn’t rain very much here in Beijing during the summer but I was caught out one night and managed to soak my nice pair of shoes. Worse still, I found that one of…