I just came across a great post on TheChinaExpat.com highlighting some common mistakes learners of Chinese make, and I thought I’d post about it here. The eight mistakes highlighted by the post are: 1.) Not mastering the tones, 2.) Not learning characters, 3.) Killing yourself learning characters, 4.) Focusing on progress [...]

South Korean actress Ok So-Ri

Here’s something I didn’t know. South Korea is the only nation outside of Islamic states that has an actual law making adultery a criminal offense. It’s been challenged multiple times but has always been upheld based on the premise that “adultery is damaging to the social order.” Hmmm…totally [...]

Shin Dong-hyuk is the soul escapee of North Korea’s prison camps

He may be a free man in a physical sense, but Shin Dong-hyuk is still a prisoner. He is the only man known to have successfully escaped a North Korean prison camp, but he still bears physical scars and lives with unimaginable emotional anguish. [...]

I recently went on a long trip up to the northeast of the United States. My first stop was New York. I love New York…the excitement, the mass of people from all backgrounds, the public transportation! But driving and parking aren’t so fun. My first day there, I took my trusty [...]

I’ve been a bit busy recently and haven’t had time to keep up with any Chinese news of any sort (and probably won’t have that kind of time from now on, so this blog will end up being pretty stagnant), but RedKemp found a short but interesting story about the Chinese version of [...]