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Friday, August 29, 2025

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Biang, the Chinese Dish and the Impossible Chinese Character

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JA0mf2AreHQ This video tries to explain the raison d'etre of the most obscure Chinese character, biáng, that is also the name of a Xi'an food specialty. You need 58 strokes and 11 pictographic components to write down this character

Monday, August 18, 2025

The Maze of Chinese Writing - The Case of 能

This video is meant to showcase at the end of the character 能 and its derivatives the complexity of Chinese writing and writing reform. The video talks about the failure of the Chinese writing reform of 1956. Simplified character is a misnomer fed to unsuspecting learners of Chinese writing around the world when in fact traditional characters seems to have a better and more logical inner structure. See the example of the five traditional characters 能 熊 態 罷 擺 that were "simplified" to 能 熊 态 罢 摆, which are not simple and make no rhyme nor reason. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LxVm9-egz5U

Chinese people are "dormant artists" at heart (sic)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/neiYrV-O8nQ

Monday, August 11, 2025

Useful Korean Grammar - Basic Grammatical Patterns 은/는 대신에

The 은/는 대신에 pattern is very useful. This episode focuses on this pattern by enabling you to understand its meaning, structure and use. The video teaches you by drilling with plenty of sample sentences and real-life dialogues. Ideal for those of you who prepare for TOPIK I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB857uHo7-w

Friday, August 8, 2025

Monday, August 4, 2025