Laughter in the Class

TweetIn any typical language class of reasonable size, there is always someone, or perhaps a few people, who turn our to be natural comedians or clowns. Either involuntarily or acting on purpose, they bring laughter to the class. About a year or two ago, I went to a Mandarin Pinyin class. Due to the limitation [...]

Building My Pinyin List

TweetA few words about my language learner progress in the last month. I have added 450 words to my French vocabulary list, 150 words more than my original target. In order not to overload myself, I will keep the same target of 300 words for the month of April. I have been concentrating on my [...]

Speaking Like a Pop Star

TweetI have been talking to a lot of Mandarin speakers on Skype in the past few weeks. Many of them have no problem identifying my ‘Hong Kong Mandarin’ accent (港腔) right away. One Mandarin speaker kindly pointed out that I tend to mix up the first and forth tones. I realize that it is a [...]

Fun With Global Translator

TweetHere is a follow-up on my recent post “Fish Jokes“. Although I discourage my fellow-bloggers to provide machine-translation links to their pages, from a reader’s point of view, I do find the existence of these links very meaningful. Indeed, they are extremely entertaining!

Hitting the Green Button

TweetI have been kind of late jumping onto the Skype wagon. A lot of language learners have already been using it. For me, it was always the first call that seemed so difficult to make. I installed Skype a couple of months ago when version 2.5 first came out. I thought to myself, “One day [...]

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