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AI Chinese

I'm looking at paying for a subscription to AI Chinese. I'd like to know if anyone here has tried it out and what they thought of it. $9 a month does seem like quite a lot for what it is, especially when you can set up fairly effective self-study speaking practice with Anki, for exam...
Posted by East Asia Student on 09-10-10 18:37 with 2 comments   

Staying in Chinese University Dorms

I think we've had a couple of posts recently where people have been asking if it's possible to stay in Chinese university dorms - ie, the ones for actual Chinese students, rather than the 'international' foreign stduent dorms. Eg. I suspect this isn't actually as easy as mig...
Posted by roddy on 09-10-10 11:45 with 1 comments   

is it lapsang souchong tea?

hi, i like lapsang souchong tea very much and a friend of mine brought me from china, but taste is very different then previously bought from us or uk. i like black tea and this is one of the best tea i ever had, it is very delicious. is it a lapsang souchong tea? or what, i cannot read this pac...
Posted by aykut sozer on 09-09-10 23:10 with 1 comments   

Text books with mp3?

Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere. Basically, I did all my chinese studies back in 2002 in Beijing and haven't done much studying snce. Back then the text books still had cassette tapes accompanying them. I think the text books were Beijing University. Just wanted to know if the text b...
Posted by Danski on 09-09-10 23:00 with 4 comments   

How to say this expression in chengyu?

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to say the following as a chengyu? You change the external wrapping, but the contents are still stay the same, ie. superficial/meaningless change? Or something to that effect (there are a lot of ways you can express that sort of meaning in English). I...
Posted by missbrokensmile on 09-09-10 21:21 with 2 comments   

Gym at Tsinghua?

Does anyone have any idea if Tsinghua University in Beijing has a gym for students? I visited the so-called "Sports Center", which appears to be nothing more than some sort of arena (someone please correct me if this is wrong). I'm looking for something on campus where one could lif...
Posted by calif90071 on 09-09-10 20:31 with 0 comments   

Buying two wheeled vehicles around Wudaokou

I'm thinking of getting a second hand bike or electric bike and saw one place that only had new bikes near the north gate of blcu. Do you know of any places where can I buy used bikes for a good price in the area within Zhichunlu--Linye Daxue--Qinghua Dong Lu--Mudanyuan?
Posted by calamindos on 09-09-10 14:25 with 2 comments   

在。。。。方面有所建树

I recently gave a presentation ending with a phrase that we were going to be visiting some companies which offered services in the area of quality control, x, y. A Chinese person kindly suggested the following phrase but didnt have time to explain its use: 现在我们一同去参观五个参展商的展览，这五个参展商分别在质量管理，xxx，xxx...
Posted by Scoobyqueen on 09-09-10 00:10 with 1 comments   

Translating financial documents into English

I have some knowledge of certain financial arcana, as well as more general understanding of the financial markets, and a vague and probably unrealistic hope of getting paid to translate financial documents from Chinese to English in the future (say, a couple of years). I'd love to know if the...
Posted by realmayo on 09-08-10 23:16 with 5 comments   

Applying to Fudan and moving to China?

Hi, I’m currently a high school senior in California, and I’m considering applying to Fudan Univeristy for my undergrad degree. Let me just say that if I do this, it would be a whole change of lifestyle for me, but I’m considering it for a number of reasons… - I’ve lived in Taiwan for 10+ years...
Posted by a09874 on 09-08-10 14:01 with 11 comments   

Good hospital/doctor near Wudaokou

Can somebody advice me a good hospital near Wudaokou. My girlfriend is having a high temperature, heavy headaches and stomachaches. She was not really fond about going to a Chinese hospital/doctor, but since it is already a couple of days and it doesn't seem to improve we'd better look fo...
Posted by BertR on 09-08-10 09:21 with 10 comments   

Mainland and other dramas

I came across this website today, where you can watch Chinese (mainland, Taiwan and HK), Japanese and Korean drama and movies online, and many of them seem to be subtitled.
Posted by Don_Horhe on 09-08-10 03:15 with 3 comments   

Recycling in Beijing

大家好， Does anyone have some ideas on how to make sure my recyclables (paper, glass, metal, plastic) get recycled here in Beijing? I have noticed that many waste bins are accompanied with recycling bins on the street, but after taking a look into them, it looks like everything is just being thrown...
Posted by xiaojiang216 on 09-07-10 16:19 with 10 comments   

Downloadable juvenile literature (or easy books)

I have recently purchased a Kindle (an e-book reader), this time it is able to render Chinese both traditional and simplified. And quite beautifully. I want to load some Chinese texts but there is not even one e-book in Chinese at Amazon. Books from Gutenberg project (copyright expired books) ar...
Posted by trusmis on 09-07-10 15:19 with 6 comments   

mathematical riddle

Keeping in line with my vow to try and maximize my exposure to Chinese every day, I was searching for some online textbooks on a certain field of math that I am taking a class on. For some reason I couldn't find the information I was looking for, and I got really frustrated until I realized t...
Posted by daofeishi on 09-07-10 12:40 with 13 comments   

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