Life in China | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity
In 2008 and 2009 I spent 1.5 years studying Chinese at Tongji University in Shanghai. This is my way to China, these are my experiences in Shanghai.
I arrive in China on page 15.
Donate Blood
Ad in the Metro
Fake Market, Pudong
Entrance at the Metro station Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
I mentioned before that I’m not a fan of these markets. This was the only interesting thing I found. Perhaps I’ll get one.
Century Avenue
In front of Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
Oriental Art Center
Metro Station Linping Road
Inside the Metro, Line 4. The red dots show the current position of the train and the next stop. The green ones circulate to indicate the direction of travel.
Buluofen
Chinese Ibuprofen. Makes an interesting noise on swallowing.
Preserve the Noodle Man
Small shops and cookshops in front of Rainbow City 2. The urban planners want to see more modern compounds here. When will they start building? And what will happen to our beloved noodle man?
Long Noodles
I’m getting used to chopsticks but this was hardly eatable. The noodles were too long and slippery.
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Quelle Surprise
This time she came and turned the wheel to the medium program, not the shortest one. Wow. Perhaps it was due to the larger amount of laundry. In the end the things didn’t feel much cleaner than last week but still better than after the first time I had used the machine.
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
David Moser wrote a very interesting article named Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard. Here’s the outline:
- Because the writing system is ridiculous.
- Because the language doesn’t have the common sense to use an alphabet.
- Because the writing system just ain’t very phonetic.
- Because you can’t cheat by using cognates.
- Because even looking up a word in the dictionary is complicated.
- Then there’s classical Chinese (wenyanwen).
- Because there are too many romanization methods and they all suck.
- Because tonal languages are weird.
- Because east is east and west is west, and the twain have only recently met.
I couldn’t agree more.
Like Women
A Chinese friend asked how many female teachers we have (three out of four), said we’d sound like women rather then men when we speak Chinese. Alarming.