Archive for the ‘Improve Yourself’ Category
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Today I wanted to wash my clothes, but the weather is cold and cloudy, so there is no way to dry them until evening. So instead of going to the laundry I answered a post of Rainman on the CL forum. He said that it is important to speak some ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I just came across an article on the fordummies website. Fordummies publishes these books like "internet for dummies".
The article dubbed Ten things Never to Do in China tries to tell You what is not acceptable in China. It tries. But it fails. The problem with this article is a general ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
I just got my Chinese name. It has been a long journey, but now my girlfriend gave me my new name.
jùn jié. Which could be translated as very talented person. However jùn has more meanings beside talented. It also means smart or handsome. I'll go with these 2 instead of ...
Posted in Asia business, China in General, Improve Yourself, Learn Chinese, Various stuff | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Some people often do not move on in their lives. They walk but remain at the same point all the time. Do You belong to this type of people? I did, but I changed it by starting making definite plans. An Idea I originally found in the amazing and life ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
How long are You learning Chinese already? How much did You learn in that time? These guys from the Spanish class are already fluent after 1 year of study. Slow learning seems to be a common problem with Chinese learners. So what's different about learning Chinese compared to learning Spanish ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
What is Your motivation to learn Chinese? Basically there are only 3 Motivations:
1. Chinese woman
2. Making business in China
3. Some cultural interest
If You are in the first group then You probably have a Chinese girlfriend already. If not then hesitate no longer. If You are in group 2 or 3 ...
Posted in Girls, Improve Yourself, Various stuff | 8 Comments »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Yesterday I had Chinese course. We were only 2 students and our teacher that day. It was very cool with such a small group, we could learn lots of things.
At the break we went to get some Coffee. We were sitting at a window with our Coffee when suddenly a ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
I just stumbled upon a post on the humanaught blog. He is talking about why it's no good idea to learn Chinese at an university in China. His main argument is, that there are plenty of Japanese and Korean students, who already got the characters down in form of Kanji ...
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