Trump in Cantonese
Want to discuss American politics with the old guys airing their birds in Hong Kong’s parks? This Cantonese lesson will provide you with all the necessary vocabulary! Trump 特朗普 Dak6 […]
Want to discuss American politics with the old guys airing their birds in Hong Kong’s parks? This Cantonese lesson will provide you with all the necessary vocabulary! Trump 特朗普 Dak6 […]
When learning Cantonese it is easy to inadvertently say, “I love Hong Kong! I eat many people here!” rather than, “I love Hong Kong! I know many people here!” The trouble lies in […]
If you are studying Mandarin and want to make only very slow headway, I can personally vouch for the following methods: While living in Mainland China, take once per week […]
Living in a foreign land, one soon realizes that all of the assholes one encounters in daily life are ‘foreigners.’ Here in the Netherlands, nearly every one of the assholes […]
I smell chocolate whenever I muddle through simple Spanish conversations. My eternal thanks for this delicious associative memory is due to an old Spanish textbook, Churros y chocolate, and its luscious cultural […]
Scrolling through my Twitter feed this afternoon,” I stumbled across this incongruous pair of tweets: The first tweet relates to the American [foreign policy] “pivot to Asia” and China’s annoyance that […]
To my left, sat an older Korean man who struggled with the proctor’s English instructions. To my right, sat a ten-year-old Japanese girl who swung her feet back and forth […]
1. Why are Shenzhen pensioners arguing about a Canadian winter sports hero? For a short time everyday I tune into a radio station broadcast from across the border in Shenzhen, […]
In Hong Kong’s “new town” of Ma On Shan, I spotted this eye-catching sticker on the back of a delivery truck: This was an image and meaning I simply had […]
I saw Pacific Rim for the sole purpose of gawking at fight scenes between giant monsters (“Kaiju”) and giant robots (“Jaejer”) in and around Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor. I was […]