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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Midterms coming

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

We’ve known about midterms for a couple weeks (after I asked). They are scheduled to be immediately BEFORE the one week break / holiday (May 1 – 7).
Since May 1 comes on a tuesday, most of the students in my class were planning on skipping out of Monday’s class, to take advantage of three extra [...]

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Spring 2007 HIT Class Schedule

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Here’s my class schedule. Every level (A-F with many grades having a half level called “+”) has a different schedule.
Key:

?? Tingli Listening comprehension
?? Zonghe Comprehensive (reading, speaking, grammar)
?? Yuedu Reading
?? Yufa Calligraphy
I need to take a bus each way. This adds about 20-25 minutes each way.
So, I take a shower about 6:00am or so, and [...]

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Dalian for summer school

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Someone asked me about my experiences last summer in Dalian. It was my first trip to China, and also, “almost” a complete beginner in Chinese. I had been studying almost two years at home before coming, in an adult education class, one day a week. Needless to say, I didn’t make a lot of progress, [...]

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Entering Chinese

Monday, April 16, 2007

I was just reading on another blog about a new IME (input method editor) from Google, that is supposed to be much better at entering Chinese than the built in one from Microsoft. Blog here: http://toshuo.com/2007/a-new-best-chinese-ime/
If you have extra languages installed on your computer, there is a feature called “language bar”, which acts like [...]

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My face

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Here’s a short video of me. It’s upside down on purpose. Gives you an idea of my sense of humor I suppose. Also, I was just holding the camera, and the cable was more convenient that way (which is the true sense of my humor, I guess…)

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