Language acquisition can be broken down into phases. There may be many ways to differientiate phases, but I find stages of frustration the most revealing. Each stage is frustrating in a different way based on patterns in language learning, and thus requires adjustment in focus. While the entire process will always have you [...]
In the recent two months I have been experimenting with healthy living, and I found that having a bike makes healthy living a whole lot easier. What is more surprising though is that by riding my bike daily to get places, I see many parts of life in a completely different light. Originally I thought [...]
Nanjing! Nanjing! - City of life and death - was not an emotional roller coaster as most films like this tend to be. There was no happiness. There was no point that I felt like jumping for joy. If you know anything about the Japanese “rape of Nanking,” then you know that it was one [...]
If you’ve followed the earlier parts to this series, one, two and three, you are ready to move on to actual learning! Ideally, the early game should last no more than 3 months, meaning that you are ready to start sounding like an idiot in front of groups of strangers native to the language within [...]
I’ve lived in 7 different apartments in Beijing. I think I’ve come across almost every possible bad situation that one can come across when trying to rent an apartment here, so I feel the need to help those of you out there who are soon to be renters.
When renting an apartment, the clearer you are [...]
