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Monthly Archives January 2009

Zhonglish for two-year-olds

On how English messes with even the kids’ Mandarin

After months of exile in Minneapolis, Siberia, the nominal proprietor of Beijing Sounds now has concrete plans to return to the main studio location in beautiful suburban Shàngdì in the northwest outskirts of the capital city. The mood surrounding this semi-permanent move, to take place around the [...]

Posted 25 January 2009 † syz § linguistics § music § personal § recipes § society § street § teacher § tones § wàidìrén § zhonglish ‡ Comments (7) °

Sound Off: John DeFrancis 1911-2009

The superlatives used to describe him are certainly on target. To quote from the guest book at the John DeFrancis Memorial site (h/t Granite Studio).

towering and generous
shaped national thinking
full of freshness

Posted 12 January 2009 † syz § DeFrancis § pīnyīn ‡ Comments (0) °