… nor grammar! :D
Categories
there has no fashion…
Categories
red(dish) tins
these have been piling on my shelves, coming from random places and addictions. i like the fact that only the red ones made it to shanghai. very china-like.
more organized collections.
hanzillion is a (recently started) photo project*, a collection of the zillion hanzi, or chinese characters, found on the streets of china.
it works as my homework: when i hunt for them, my photographic memory starts to remember their strokes and forms. which i desperately need to do, since i have at least some 3000 to go before i can read a newspaper…
and yet, foreign as 99.9% of these characters still are to me, i can’t but marvel at their mystery, different typographies and simple beauty. it’ll be a work in progress, for a very long time.
* i just can’t seem to get enough of them!
Categories
currently craving
There are many people studying Chinese now. I hope that all of you reporters, and the other ladies and gentlemen in attendance, can take up the study of Chinese. I believe that Chinese is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn. Otherwise, how can you explain why 1.3 bllion people have chosen it as their mother tongue?
said by china’s foreign minister, mr. yang jiechi in a press conference this morning.
i have a class in half an hour, am struggling to remember a dozen characters and starting to feel like i want to kill someone. because, you know, it’s so simple!
(from danwei.)