I was looking up Chinese video sharing sites after my buddy teople introduced me to a few, and I came across a great post on Danwei.org with an overly-lengthy-in-a-good-way list of them. Careful not to overdose, Chinese junkies. And if you’re interested in seeing a good comparison of the sites, check [...]

I swear I need to start a Magibon category. This is the third or fourth post about her. I really didn’t plan on making any more posts about her, but in the interests of answering the biggest question about Magibon (WHY?!?!), and because I’m way too busy lately to look for anything else [...]

A couple of months ago, I commented on the Magibon phenomenon and how her videos are both infuriatingly pointless and incredibly mesmerizing. I didn’t expect it, but that post for some reason put the site right near the top of Google’s search results when you search for her name. Apparently a lot of [...]

Wow, I didn’t know people could get this small. The world’s smallest girl hails from India and is only 1 ft. 11 in. tall at 15 years old. Amazing! She seems to have a positive attitude about the whole thing, though, saying, “I am proud of being small. I love the attention [...]

Learning Chinese is a pretty daunting task. The tones, the ambiguous tenses, the multi-use particles…it can be extremely frustrating at times. And Chinese people recognize that, so when they see someone working hard to learn their language, they’re usually more than happy to help out. They’re also usually really encouraging about students’ [...]