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23 mars 2007

Beijing or Peking?

Well, I don’t actually want to pose the question. I tell my students Beijing is Beijing; Peking is only used in an historic context. But I always wondered how Beijing got to be called Peking. I always put it down to some ridiculous old system of romanisation,...
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23 mars 2007

blocked

I'll continue to use this as a specifically focussed Chinese study blog, but because canalblog has found itself on the wrong side of the Great Firewall, I'll also be posting my Chinese study posts at wangbo.blogtown.co.nz. More to come, but I'm kinda...
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21 mars 2007

back into the swing of things

I studied two texts from my textbook last night. The texts were fairly short and the questions not overly detailed, so it didn't take too much time. The textbook is Core Chinese Reading- Intermediate/核心阅读-中级本 edited by 刘颂浩 and 林欢, published by 华语教学出版社...
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21 mars 2007

grrrrr

It seems Canalblog has found itself on the wrong side of the Great Firewall, which is really frustrating because I just started this blog and I want to keep it going to motivate me to study Chinese. I'll see how things go, if this really is a block or...
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20 mars 2007

nom chinois

For seven years living in China I've managed to get away with not having a Chinese name. I never saw why I'd need one. Still don't. But some Chinese people seem to think it a necessity for us laowai to have a Chinese name. I'm quite happy for Chinese...
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19 mars 2007

开始

This blog is an attempt to make me get back into the habit of studying Chinese. I hope I can keep this going. I'm not sure exactly what will go up here, but so far I'm thinking: My own attempts at writing Chinese. Questions, comments and musings on my...
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