Fun fact: the original title was "an audio-visual weed garden" but that would have raised questions not answered by the post. Outs...

The Concise History of Taiwan: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition By Tai Pao-tsun, translated by Ruby Lee I know I haven't been blogging ...

A short post for a gray Sunday morning. Yesterday, I visited the Jingmei Human Rights Museum (景美人權文化園區), which is a short taxi ride fr...

Some thoughts on the "I'm not defensive, YOU'RE DEFENSIVE! You don't understand our 5000 years of Chinese culture" rea...

Several years ago, I took a series of one-on-one Chinese classes at TLI (Taipei Language Institute), and while my teachers were fine (not p...

Photo from this site It's been 5 1/2 years. 5 1/2 years of learning Chinese - with some extended breaks, but make no mistake, I...

A well-known essay on Why Chinese is So Damn Hard recently reappeared online. I remember reading it back when it first appeared, agreeing...

Update: my husband wrote another fascinating perspective (of course I think it's fascinating, I'm his wife) on his own bl...

I used to have this idea that if I studied Chinese long and hard enough, someday I’d be “fluent”, like Fluency was a prize I could win and m...