When I was a kid, we would sometimes go to Mexico for Christmas vacation. My Spanish is / was very limited, but I learned enough broken Spanish to get by. After all, I was going to someone else’s country, and I should at least try to speak their language.
On one of the first trips down, [...]
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My wife and I went for a walk today, and the ocean is much closer to downtown Capitola than it is normally - really close. The river is almost flooding too. It’s higher than I’ve ever seen it. Since the river is connected to the ocean, the waves are going up stream and breaking on [...]
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I had my first Chinese class on Friday, and it was fun. It was hard, but fun.
The class is being taught by Pan lǎoshī (潘老师), and he stresses the use of pinyin and hitting the proper tones (as I am sure most teachers do). The tones are key to speaking Chinese well, he says.
So I [...]