There are very large bookstores in Shanghai, much larger than the ones I saw in US. However, they carry Chinese books only (except for a…
Learning Chinese via English is hard even though there is pinyin, even though pinyin was invented to make this easier. It is much easier to…
Our experience with people has been great so far, and I am told that it is normal. I see taxi drivers tolerating our lack of…
Coming from the thought process that Indian and Chinese culture are similar in lots of ways, I was very surprised to find that in most…
It has been a long time since I posted here, sorry about that. I have been busy in the process of settling down which has…
I completed a month working now, and it has been a good experience so far. Working in a country where native language is not the…
My daughter has started going to school, for 3 weeks or so now. The experience has been good so far, though the change for her…
It turned out to be a fun weekend this time. I needed to go to my daughter’s school to pay the fees, and since the…
Finally I started my mandarin lessons, 3 days a week, 100 minutes each. First 2 classes were about sounds (called Finals in the book), and…
Buying medicines was tougher than I thought. We asked in various govt hospitals but couldn’t figure out what they were saying! Later we were told…