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3 Guesses at a Composite Character
I recently snapped this photo of a “Chinese character.” I thought it might be interesting to put AI (Claude) to the test to see if it could recognize it. Across three models, the results differed more than I expected. Haiku 4.5 (the oldest model) That’s 福 (fú) — “fortune” or…
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Fancy Horsies
I feel remiss for not having made any Chinese New Year-related post yet. I reread my old post from 2022 and realized that those are the same feelings I still harbor, so no need to write about that. (One of the benefits of keeping a blog, I guess?) However, walking around…
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Reviewing 2025
This blog has been quiet in 2025. For one thing, blogs already seem to be a relic of the past (did you know that kids in the high school IB program learn “blog” as a text type, and they have no clue what it is at all until they learn about it in high school?). For another,…
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Best Deal for Learning Chinese in 2025
Merry Christmas, everyone! (Obligatory link to the Chinese Christmas songs page from the archive) I’ve still got a year-end update post coming, but in the meantime, I need to share a great deal happening at AllSet Learning right now. If you’re learning Chinese online or thinking…
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Zootopia 2 and “Zoo Ooh Ooh” in Chinese
I went to the movie theater with my family on Saturday to watch Zootopia 2 (疯狂动物城2) here in Shanghai. As usual, we watched the movie with the original audio and Chinese subtitles, and enjoyed it a lot. But I did take note of the subtitles here and there and noticed a little…
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25 Years!
I just had my 25th Chinaversary today. Although I don’t usually pay much attention to this date, 25 years felt like enough of a milestone to make a cheesy graphic about it! (Yes, apparently I’m big in Guilin.) So the amount of time I’ve lived in China has now significantly…
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The Periodic Table in Chinese has fun surprises
I recently came across this YouTube video, and it echoed a lot of the same discoveries I made, back in the day. If you’re learning Chinese, and you’re even a little bit curious about the names of the elements in Chinese (and yes, this involves some special characters!), check it…
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Feminine Product Euphemisms in Chinese
I saw this posted by David Moser on Facebook recently: David writes: This bilingual sign in the restroom of a Beijing hospital is interesting. The Chinese literally reads: “[If this is] a special day, [if] you need a feminine hygiene product, please contact someone at the front…
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Children’s Charity Bazaar
Some friends in Shanghai are organizing this: If you’re in Shanghai this January 1st (2025), come to the Children’s Charity Bazaar, which benefits the Heart to Heart Foundation, helping underprivileged children get the heart surgery they desperately need. You don’t even have to…
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More Pants than Pant
So I had a great time on my trip to Naples, Italy (I’ll have to write more about that soon), and after returning to Shanghai I have continued to study Italian through Duolingo and ChatGPT. One thing that I’ve noticed about Italian is that plural forms require a lot more…