Category: Blog
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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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Beijing Brews: A Craft Beer Scene in the Making
This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write about for some time but have never got around to it: Beijing’s craft beer scene. It seems odd that China would be home to a craft beer scene in general but thanks to a few industrious foreigners (with the help of their Chinese counterparts), I can say…
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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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Hot and Green
So Beijing has one of those funny temperatures that goes from “Wow, it’s kinda cold” to “Wow, it’s hot outside.” Well, it recently reached the latter part of that temperature scale with the mercury easily climbing to 20C or higher. Now, since most of you reading this here blog have probably never lived or perhaps even visited China…
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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…