Radical Eclecticity

I went to see Hancock today with 小季 and his fiancé. I was actually kind of surprised to see it advertised outside the theatre because it just came out in the US, too. It was simultaneously released in both countries, which I knew happened, I just didn’t realize it was that common. The next movie […]

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Literally, the title means “long time, no see.” Ironically, this is a phrase that we adapted to our language from theirs and, somewhere along the way, lost track of where it came from. What’s even more ironic is this: Almost every time I leave somewhere and say, “再见,” the native speakers of Chinese will reply, […]

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So, in my first week with the kids I’m doing lessons on time and date. We start with things like the days of the week, how to say the date, how to say the time, talking about tomorrow and yesterday and things like that, and then we wrap up by talking about special days and […]

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