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Comment on Three-Penis Liquor: the Perfect Gift by Greg Pasden

Greg Pasden — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:57:59 +0000

I’ll be bringing the adult beverages when I visit your house

Comment on Eating Insects and Animals in China by Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:02:47 +0000

After a fair amount of baijiu, I once tried eating stir fried pine nuts and black ants. The ants were crispy and tasteless. Not really being into them, I tried to just pick out the pine nuts but they were all covered in ant legs.. :/

Agree that it could be a great food supply though! Surprised they aren’t used a filler instead of soy – or maybe they already are!

Comment on Language Power Struggles by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:50 +0000

What a great article. I’ve just discovered your blog through ChinesePod (which I also love), and in fact I just wrote an article on my own Chinese learning blog about how you talked about finding bored people to speak with!

The language power struggle argument is extremely interesting. Surely if you try to talk to people in a University setting, a far greater proportion will want to practice their English on you (as they may be learning it), but if you go elsewhere, to the park or whatever, wouldn’t it be fairly easy to find people who have no interest in learning English?

Comment on Language Power Struggles by So, what if they only wanna speak English? | Chinese Breeze: Unorthodox Language Learning Blog

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:50:56 +0000

[...] Ah, the classic problem amongst most Western language learners. This is known colloquially amongst the language learning community as the ‘language power struggle’. [...]

Comment on Learning Curves: Chinese vs. Japanese by Van

Van — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:58:50 +0000

For pronunciation, your graph is pretty accurate. And, it’s true that the hard part in Chinese is mostly just in the beginning. Although, I do think I never thought of Japanese grammar as that difficult though… I always thought it was pretty straight-forward. (But english wasn’t my first language so maybe that made the difference? I don’t know.. ) Pretty cool post though!

Comment on Interview by Furio by nommoc

nommoc — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:59:33 +0000

John,

Read the entire interview and likewise thought it was well done.

It is interesting, you have a bit of “celebrity” status within the Chinese learning community, therefore perhaps unintentionally we all become very interested in knowing more about you.

At the same time, maybe we have to realize some questions (i.e. those about your personal life) may not be that appropriate and/or directly related to the real topic, that is “China/Chinese”. Nevertheless, it seems on more than one occasion you’ve been wiling to open up and share details about your life personally and professionally. Which at least from a reader/student/follower standpoint, makes for a very nice experience.

As to the full article written by Furio, one part I particularly found interesting and accurate is the answer to the question “After your adventure with ChinesePod, you decided to start your own company. Which are the challenges, as a foreigner, to own and run a company in China?”.

Definitely encourage anyone interested in working/starting a business in Chinese to read your comments and take them to heart… very accurate, and need to be considered when thinking about running a business in China. It was nice to have someone like you give a voice to perhaps the experiences of many others who have/are going through similar experiences.

Finally, your comment to the last question in the article about “Plan B” and the realities of being a foreigner in China and the thinking that naturally comes along with it, was again spot on. Surely many readers will have be one word come to mind “同感”.

Thank you again for a really nice interview!

Nommoc http://www.nommoc.com @nommoc_app

Comment on Learning East Asian Communicative Grunts by jope

jope — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:12 +0000

Interestingly, this is used as affirmitive in northern swedish dialect as well.

Comment on iPad Apps for Chinese Study (2011) by nommoc

nommoc — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:18:18 +0000

John,

In line with all the other responses to this post listed above going to post our app… ; )

The app is Nommoc which is for learning to write Chinese:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nommoc/id626158301?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

1) Nommoc includes stroke order animations for the 2500 most common Chinese characters which were hand written by a native Chinese. 2) Nommoc allows free-hand writing of the the most common Chinese characters.

We hope to say goodbye to “expat illiteracy”… let’s all learn to write Chinese!

一起加油！

@nommoc_app

Comment on How Poisonous the Air by jmnicklin

jmnicklin — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:40:32 +0000

I was actually out and about in Beijing on the day in question. Visibility just walking down the street was pretty bad and needless to say, I came down with a cough a couple of days later. ‘Nuff said.

Comment on When Humor Runs Aground by Sarcasm In Chinese | Medianism

Sarcasm In Chinese | Medianism — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:49:06 +0000

[...] than in English. One translation is to ‘ridicule, taunt, mock‘. Another is “satire“. But these are all completely different concepts than sarcasm. Most ridicule and satire [...]