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Written By: Due-East on June 9, 2011 One Comment
Chengdu Living: “Five must-see websites to advance your Chinese”

 

 

Chengdu Living just posted an article entitled Five Must-See Websites to Advance Your Chinese. If your Chinese has become stagnant, why not check it out?

 

Written By: Due-East on October 21, 2009 5 Comments
Top 10 Reasons to Learn Cantonese

 

The awesomeness that is Hong Kong: Reason enough to learn Cantonese.

 

A friend of mine just sent me a link to a New York Times article about how Cantonese is slowly dying out in New York’s Chinatown. I couldn’t help but get a little sad reading it. Sure, it’s a ridiculously difficult [...]

Written By: Due-East on December 26, 2008 2 Comments

 

 

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 [...]

Written By: Due-East on August 4, 2008 No Comment

 

 

If you’re going to rely on a computer translation to name your restaurant in a foreign tongue, it’s probably best to follow these simple rules:

Know enough of the target language to understand if your translation is at least somewhere in the general vicinity of being halfway near the point of possibly a tad bit close [...]

Written By: Due-East on March 16, 2008 No Comment

 

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Here’s something cool I recently came across in my web surfing. I’ve always found it really interesting to learn exactly how the languages we speak today evolved from earlier forms, so when I found this chart online, I thought I had come across the [...]

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