A perfect partner
I was as thrilled as all of you to read that ChinesePod has been named on Time’s list of great podcasts of 2006, but really… are any of us surprised? Not me, certainly. I have always viewed ChinesePod as the first “horseless carriage” of its kind. I think we’re likely to see many […]
Archive for December, 2006
A perfect partner
Published by December 31st, 2006 in ChinesePod, Motivations and Philosophy. 3 CommentsNinja spam and a gallon of panda juice
Published by December 29th, 2006 in Humor and Motivations. 13 CommentsNow and then they come up with a clever subject line, those spammers. I go through a daily surge of amusement and annoyance at the hundreds of spam e-mails that flood my inbox, but they change the subject line so frequently that creating a custom spam filter does me almost no good. So, like I […]
1974. Everybody was kung fu fighting.
Fists and feet were flying and we made these absurd sounds like a chicken being strangled when we attacked. Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris had beaten the snot out of each other in the Roman Coliseum and Jackie Chan was already kicking ass and taking names. I was taking the […]
Shèngdàn kuàilè!
Published by December 26th, 2006 in Humor, Greetings, Vocabulary and ChinesePod. 3 CommentsTalk about absurdities! Guess what’s in the running for the single most well-known Chinese phrase in my head? I’m talking about the kind of phrase that I could say without thinking about it; the kind of phrase that’s so innate it comes off my tongue as readily as English.
Yeah. You guessed it.
圣诞快乐
Shèngdàn kuàilè
Merry Christmas
I’ve said […]
