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How to Read a Chinese Poem with Only One Sound

How to Read a Chinese Poem with Only One Sound

Learning Chinese can be a struggle, especially if you’ve just started out on the path to fluency. The tones, the characters, and the difficult sounds that you might not be familiar with can be a challenge to grasp.

However, once you’ve spent some time learning the basics, next comes reading articles, writing short in-class essays, and even perhaps the ability to understand TV shows and movies.

But once you’re fairly comfortable in these areas, you might take your Read More

Self-Service Buffets: How to get a cheap healthy meal in Asia

Self-Service Buffets: How to get a cheap healthy meal in Asia

Taiwan is known for its wide selection of food options. And “wide” doesn’t even cover it. As I outlined in a previous post, the breakfast options alone are quite extensive.

However, the one thing that I’ve heard many people say about food in Taiwan is that it’s sometimes quite greasy. But while this may be true, there are also lots of other options out there if you’d like to be a bit healthier.

Some of my favourite places to go are Read More

A Typical Breakfast in Taiwan

A Typical Breakfast in Taiwan

The one thing you’ll continuously hear if you visit Taiwan is how good the food is. This is not a lie, and not even some sort of disillusion on the part of a small group of people who just like to eat stinky tofu all day. It’s actually true.

You have your beef noodle soups (牛肉面 / 牛肉麵 [niú ròu miàn]), your curries (咖哩 [gā lí]), your shaved ice (刨冰 [bào bīng], also called 剉冰 [tsua bing] in Taiwanese), and my favorite, pork chops with rice (猪排饭 / 豬排飯 [zhū pái fàn]). Read More

Advice on moving to Taiwan | Interview with Aaron Posehn

Advice on moving to Taiwan | Interview with Aaron Posehn

In today’s post I interview a friend of the site, and long time user, Aaron Posehn.  You can check out his cool ebook on learning to write characters over at chinease-ebook.com and also, be sure to check out his brand new website devoted to learning languages called For the Love of Languages!

Hi Aaron, can you give everyone a brief introduction to who you are and how you first got interested in learning Chinese?

My name is Aaron Posehn and I’m originally from Vancouver, Canada. My love affair with Chinese started Read More