Recent Posts Tagged With 'meg vs. mandarin'

• Vocabulary Building

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 15:51 in raleigh, chinese life, meg vs. mandarin, adventures with stick, beijing:raleigh

  “Look, Stick, I got spam in Chinese! It says:  I…. good…. mine…. you… not or no… please… compare or comparison… net… not have… you… Um, that’s all I can read.” “You ...

• Liu Gong Island

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 12:33 in dave, raleigh, yantai, meg vs. mandarin, liu gong

  I have no idea how I went from running to the mailbox each afternoon in hope and expectation, to utterly forgetting to mention this, but… I have a travel piece in the March-April issue of Adventures For The Average Woman. It’s about my tr...

• Southern Mandarin

  Posted on Friday May 15th, 2009 at 15:38 in photoblog, raleigh, meg vs. mandarin, beijing:raleigh

  Raleigh graffiti artist Wang tags a downtown street. Simpson's Paradox Southern Mandarin Simpson's Paradox Southern Mandarin...

• Mandarin Superpowers And More On China

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 00:30 in china, expats, other bloggers, raleigh, my other writing, meg vs. mandarin

  Luke Gedeon is collecting China-related articles over on his blog. I’m really pleased to be part of this project, my contribution is a piece on my Mandarin superpowers.  Luke is well-connected among thoughtful bridge bloggers so it promises to...

• Elevator Confession

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 14:01 in learning chinese, raleigh, meg vs. mandarin

  Every time I go to Chinese school, I take the elevator to my classroom, just to use my elevator Chinese phrases. I can’t figure out if I do it to keep up my elementary Chinese, or just to watch the looks of shock when the white teacher talks th...

• Everyday Expressions

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 01:23 in learning chinese, raleigh, meg vs. mandarin, beijing:raleigh

  When I first went to Yantai, I imagined I’d come home and slip effortlessly into fluent Mandarin to quote ancient Chinese wisdom. Fortunately for people who have to put up with me, that didn’t happen. A few characters have somehow made it...

• Stick Plans For The Future

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 19:16 in gaming, job hunting, stick, d+d, raleigh, evil incarnate, meg vs. mandarin

  “When I was looking at job boards,” Stick told me last night, “I found a perfect job for Evil Incarnate.” Evil Incarnate is an ex-boyfriend, the one who bears striking resemblance to my love-hate struggles with Mandarin. I sup...