Beijing Sounds is one of the eclectic blogs of the Sinoglot group of bloggers — see our group blog here. Everything else below is just about Beijing Sounds, so don’t blame my co-bloggers from Sinoglot:

Syz

• Variously, as fits the day: producer, CEO, transcriptionist, product manager, CTO, janitor, editor, audio consultant…
• Slightly privacy-obsessed Beijing resident
• Zhonglish speaker starting about 2002
• Hanzi learner since about 2008
• Aficionado of phonetics, consciousness and corporate backstabbing

Actors & Consultants

PBS

• Princess Beijing Sounds
• Child actor for most productions in the potty humor category
• Star pupil of YU (see below) since 2002
• Aged year minus 2002, roughly

YU

• aka Yuèmǔ (岳母 mother-in-law) University or, to PBS, Lǎolao (姥姥 = grandma)
• Many generations a Beijinger
• Source for most of Syz’s education
• See official introduction

MBS

• Mrs. Beijing Sounds
• Occasional tutor at YU (see warnings here)

Others (who deserve much thanks they never get)

• Lots of taxi drivers
• Very patient friends and coworkers
• Inquisitive, witty, skeptical & erudite readers who have made this blog much more than it ever intended to be

How do you say that again?

“Běijīng de shēngr”

• PBS and cousin:

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• YU:

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Contact

• E-mail bjshengr -at- gmail -dot- com

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