Archive for April, 2007

Naming towels

The other day I listened to the Elementary lesson, China’s Most Famous Tourist Destinations. Obviously there was some new vocabulary in there, but it was such specific and specialized vocabulary that I’m wondering exactly how much brain power to devote to it when I can’t yet say all the colors or name all the furniture […]

Premium or not?

My schedule these days has allowed less time for Chinese study than usual as I get back to the business of my pre-Octagon life. There was a lot of water built up behind that dam, and all the fingers and toes I stuck in the leaks wasn’t enough to keep it all from crashing down […]

Socks rocked.

I’ve been exploring V3. Truth be told, I took the weekend to reconnect with my long-lamenting novel, but I’m back in the thick of things today. On my way to work I did two lessons, one Newbie and one Elementary, and I logged into the site this afternoon to check out the PDFs and additional […]

Friday Five: The Mighty Bazza

Hello, and welcome to another fantastic installment of the Friday Five here on the Newbie blog!
How are you folks doing? Getting used to V3, I hope? I see that some of the furor has died down and I hope everyone is getting back to the business of learning Chinese!
Today’s Friday Five interview is a great […]