Chinese

Hanyu Pinyin celebrates its 50th birthday
I found it coherent and useful when learning Mandarin, says the white guy who only knew English and French beforehand.
Guanyin Calligraphy

It looks like the calligrapher got the second character slightly wrong. See the Wikipedia page on Guanyin for the right Chinese characters.

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sillygwailo added a note: Should be a dot, not a line. The calligrapher that came to teach us did have a fever, so I'll cut him some slack.

Chinese Culture Versus German Culture
A series by Chinese designer Liu Yang, who spent time in Germany. Unclear to me where this originated, other than possibly a forum post at tianya.cn.

Fake DJ sets, Weekly Recaps of the Internet, and Language Learning

After buying my second iPod, a svelte nano, I subscribed to some podcasts, unsubscribed from others, which I listen to while commuting from place to place. (And while ironing.) Here are the podcasts I'm listening to these days:

These days I'm wearing headphones more often, trying to listen to Fake DJ sets, weekly recaps of the Internet, and language learning, so I apologize if I'm not paying attention to you. If people don't support this podcasting thing, it might not make it.

SFU-Zhejiang Dual Computer Science Degree Program
If I was younger and knew I had an interest in China, I'd have been all over this.
Chinese Blast bills itself as "a collaborative learning engine for learning Chinese"
Powered by Drupal, it has a few rough edges.
9 Chinese translations for the word 'metrosexual'
My favourites are "female man" and "city neuter beauty man".
"In a sense the Chinese are the originators of fast food"
For the Chinese themselves, however, their diet is not a restaurant diet, but the result of producing.
There's "an almost complete lack of study materials" for those who want to learn Shanghainese
"The typical westerner who is in China 'for business' doesn't speak a word of Chinese and their job doesn't require it because all of their Chinese colleagues speak English."

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