Unusual pronunciations in pop songs
It’s been a long while since I last updated my blog, but here I am! I remember last time it was still in winter, but now it’s already halfway through summer....
second language
Some 1000-year-old doodles… and some thoughts on Classical Chinese teaching in the 21st century (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post I wrote about an interesting Weibo hashtag I had seen, which was about some animal doodles on a 9th-century Chinese manuscript. Then I...
Some 1000-year-old doodles… and some thoughts on Classical Chinese teaching in the 21st century (Part 1)
Yesterday I saw a trending hashtag on Weibo (the Chinese Twitter): #一千年前小朋友写的字, which translates as “characters written by kids from 1000 years ago.” I click...
Learning a third language via a second… and how linguistics helps along the way
Language learning is a lifelong journey. In particular, if a person speaks multiple languages and hasn’t acquired them all as mother tongues, then he must ha...