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The Digital Story of The Nativity

I’d like to share this creative, funny and cute story of the Nativity to say Merry Christmas-圣诞快乐！ How social media, web and mobile tell the story of the Nativity. Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon… Times change, the feeling remains the same If unfortunately you are in [...]

Correcting news anchors’ pronunciation

Stumbled across this website with some hilarious videos about Mandarin. Especially check out the one about the Pinyin Pirate. They also give a snarky but accurate presentation about how to pronounce the name of our fair city. All campy jokes aside, the videos are actually useful for learning Mandarin. They’re hosted by real university Mandarin [...]

Embarassing Underwear Story

During the winters in China, it is very common (almost necessary) to wear long johns or long underwear. Being a foreigner, I’m not used to wearing long johns, but there was one day when the weather was as cold as -20 C. It would have been crazy not to have been wearing long underwear that [...]

What’s the Deal with 的

Read this sentence aloud: 我带我的太太和我的小孩儿去我的朋友的家吃他做的饭 wǒ dài wǒ de tài tɑi hé wǒ de xiǎo hái ér qù wǒ de pénɡ you de jiā chī tā zuò de fàn Does this sentence read funny? Does it sound funny when read out loud? Try it again: 我带我的太太和我的小孩儿去我的朋友的家吃他做的饭 wǒ dài wǒ de tài tɑi hé wǒ de [...]

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