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Tang Poem meets Google Translate

Monday, March 30, 2009

For today’s assignment in “Zonghe” (Comprehensive) I have to write about a Tang poem (partly because I couldn’t memorize it on the spot, citing the fact that I didn’t know what the words meant – hence found it hard to remember).
Part of the assignment (I think) was to find out about the poem, so [...]

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2009 年春节学期 E1 班课

Saturday, February 28, 2009

My Spring 2009 Class Schedule

星期一
星期二
星期三
星期四
星期五

08:00 – 09:50
阅读

综合
听说
听说

10:00 – 11:50
综合

阅读
写作
综合

午 饭 （lunch）
Afternoon on Tuesday:

13:00 – 14:50

综合

15:00 – 16:50

听说

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Practicing writing and tests

Friday, October 31, 2008

Had a TingShuo test on Thursday, results next week, but we went over the test in class today, so I think I got about 6-8 wrong (out of about 35 questions), so probably near the middle or bottom of the class. Vocabulary was the most difficult part, they used a lot of colloquialisms.
Mon Xiezuo test  [...]

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New semester, new styles

Monday, September 1, 2008

September 1st marks the start of a new semester at HIT.
Last semester I was in “C+” (C and 1/2). I’ve been moving at about half to 1/4 of the speed of other students. However, many of the Koreans have a big advantage, with numerous cognates, growing up with characters (as well as a phonetic alphabet), [...]

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Tutors this time around

Monday, September 24, 2007

This time, I resolved to get a tutor from the start of the semester rather than wait a month or more. I asked my teacher to help me find one.
She agreed to help me find a tutor. I talked with three people before settling on the third one. First one wasn’t really interested after I [...]

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