From CNN:
- A museum visitor shattered three Qing dynasty Chinese vases when he tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and brought the vases crashing to the floor, officials said Monday.
The three vases, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, had been donated to The Fitzwilliam Museum in the university city […]
Archive for January, 2006
Came across a blog post today ‘The 30 Most Spoken Languages of the World’. As usual Mandarin was at the top, but it seemed somewhat surprising (perhaps just an anglo-bias) that Spanish was in second position ahead of English. The rest of the top 10:
885m - Mandarin
332m - Spanish
322m - English
235m - Arabic
189m […]
Here’s a post I wrote for the On Demand Training blog. If you’re a teacher you might be interested:
Over the years, language teachers have been skeptical about the value of techology in the language learning classroom. We know that language learning software fails the learner on two major counts. First, experience tells us that learning […]
压岁钱 (ya1sui4qian2)
red packet, lucky money
In ancient china, people tended to put some copper coins wrapped in red paper beside the pillows of their children on the Lunar New Year’s Eve to drive away a devil called “sui.” It has evolved into today’s red packet or lucky money that parents and older relatives give to children […]
Some very cool photos of Southern China here.
Ken Carroll 凯恩
Hanzismatter is a blog ‘dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in western culture’. Quite often these days you see western people with Chinese characters in their tattoos. It is clear that, in many cases, people choose the characters because of how they look, without understanding what they mean. This can have hilarious consequences, such […]
Ken, Jenny, Aric and the ChinesePod Crew usher in the Year of the Puppy ?
From Xinhua
Couples across China are rushing to get married shortly after the Year of the Dog starts on Jan. 29 –a year considered by the elderly to be auspicious for weddings.
Ken Carroll 凯恩
From the LA Times:
Shanghai’s hot housing market has fizzled after a run-up fed by speculators, threatening a significant part of China’s economy.
By Don Lee, Times Staff Writer
SHANGHAI — American homeowners wondering what follows a housing bubble can look to China’s largest city.
Once one of the hottest markets in the world, sales of homes have virtually […]
ChinesePod.com Receives First Award
Published by January 24th, 2006 in About ChinesePod and ChinesePod Media Coverage. 1 Comment“Bitwise Recommended” Award from Bitwise Magazine
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