basic translation knowledge
So sometime last weekend I grabbed a copy of 新京报/The Beijing News to read while
ramblings of an expat Kiwi living in one small corner of Beijing
So sometime last weekend I grabbed a copy of 新京报/The Beijing News to read while
So one thing that has frustrated me about my Chinese study – and it is
Now that I apparently have a spare moment or two… Last Friday (yes, I know
Yes, I am breaking the long, long silence. Driving did increase the amount of book
This may sound a little odd, but one unexpected side effect of driving is that
It was actually about two weeks or so ago, but I finally finished reading Lao
So I finally made it up to the chapter in my Classical Chinese textbook introducing
A few links for those interested… Via this blog post I found a few things
A few weeks ago a colleague asked me about the 把 construction. Her teacher and
Now that I’ve got that little lunchtime rant out of my system, here’s what I