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Posted on: 5000 Years of History
November 27, 2013 at 8:02 AMconstantly - you will have to grin and bear it
Posted on: 5000 Years of History
November 27, 2013 at 7:09 AMDoesn't everyone have the same length of history? If not then at some point our ancestors appeared out of thin air (or something)
Posted on: 5000 Years of History
November 27, 2013 at 7:06 AMThere was a time some years ago when some people in England thought that you should not call Africans and others with black skin 'black' because they thought it was offensive
Posted on: Alcoholic Attitudes
November 27, 2013 at 6:51 AMGood thinking. Drinking words are to English as Snow words are to Eskimo perhaps
Posted on: Chinese Games Part 1: Board Games
November 26, 2013 at 2:55 PMWithout any pictures or vocabulary I feel this podcast falls rather flat. Sorry.
I am actually play xiangqi and guoji xiangqi and weiqi, so was potentially interested.
Posted on: Alcoholic Attitudes
November 26, 2013 at 10:35 AMRight - not quite what was portrayed in the podcast!
Posted on: Chinese Food at Foreign Prices
November 26, 2013 at 8:38 AMI heard tell that some friends of mine (one laowai and two chinese) had a bad experience in Yunnan. When they refused to buy lots of stuff they were almost thrown off the bus and left stranded!
Posted on: I'm Being Followed!
November 22, 2013 at 11:32 AMThe grammar section audio seems empty. I don't think this is a browser problem as I tried three different ones
Posted on: I'm Being Followed!
November 22, 2013 at 7:49 AMI have the exercise tab, if that is what you mean.
Posted on: 5000 Years of History
November 27, 2013 at 11:07 AMhttp://www.dylwhs.talktalk.net/scilang/statistics01.htm
This seems to say that there were 837 different sounds in the sample, taking tones into account, in 30,328 characters searched. This gives each sound having 36 different characters on average.
Of course the distribution is very uneven, so some 'sounds' like shi4 have large numbers ...