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Monthly Archives: September 2006

Summary of conditions at Jilin University

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

I started out at upper beginner level “A1″. Almost at “zhong”. But, although I could understand the teacher an follow along (and respond in Chinese, etc) better than quite a few people, I couldn’t read anything. The others could read, and would probably have improved their listening skills within a couple of weeks. So, after [...]

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“I am a vegetable”

Sunday, September 17, 2006

My first year of Chinese was once a week, at an adult education class, in the Ron Hubbard Center in Saint Paul. The taiwanese community has been running a Chinese school for kids (and some adults) since the 1970’s, I believe.
We studied pronunciation, phonetic spelling, p?ny?n, some grammar, and of course vocabulary.
One day, we had [...]

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Phones and Electricity

Monday, September 4, 2006

I loose track of what I’ve already mentioned, so I appologize if I’ve already mentioned these.
One item I hadn’t appreciated when I bought the cell phone (I’ve never owned one before), is that all the menus are in Chinese. I realize that American phones have English menus, but I never really gave any thought to [...]

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Questions from my fans..

Sunday, September 3, 2006

Well, a fan letter “poured in” (as the joke goes), with some questions. So, that’s an easy way to catch up on things for the last few days…
I bought a cell phone a few days ago. I picked a rather expensive (over budget) phone because the display was larger, and I could read the phone [...]

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