Think back to the hungriest you have ever been in your entire life.

( Have you ever heard your stomach growl... )

1- Review Quiz

Key concepts from the first lesson which will be crucial in learning today's lesson elements and new vocabulary are reviewed in a short quiz.

Questions

1- Toisanese is closely related to this dialect of Chinese:

a Mandarin b Hong Kong Mandarin c Cantonese d Fujianese

2- Particles are usually added to the ends of words can also be ( Read more... )

When you load a webpage and click on a link ( Read more... )

It has now been over six months since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. While most of the world has forgotten about the apparent crisis in favor of more domestic economic ones, Pakistan and its people certainly have not. While civil war has seemingly been averted on the streets of Islamabad, the problems that helped cause the assassination ( Read more... )

With the recent furor over biotechnology sub-sectors as stem cell research or cloning, one of the more feasible and easily accepted technologies are being forgotten - along with its dire implications. Designer babies, or the ability to specifically choose certain genetic traits of an unborn child, has the potential to cause more problems for ( Read more... )

Quietly passing by its new assignment in January, MESSENGER provided NASA and the world with the first new images of Mercury since Mariner 10 last made its flyby 33 years ago. Near the other end of the solar system, New Horizons slowly coasts on inertia to Pluto, now demoted to dwarf planet status by the IAU since the probe was launched, will ( Read more... )

As we finish off the playoff run-up to the Super Bowl, it's a little interesting to realize just how popular the sport of American football has gotten around the world. For nearly a decade, the NFL operated a multi-team league in Europe (dominated by London) while another football league has quietly operated in Japan for decades and arena football ( Read more... )

Note: This is an excerpt from a Toisanese Class I'm working on and is the first lesson. If you'd like the know more, click here.

Lesson One: Identity and Introduction
All important vocabulary words under each bullet point are in bold in red with a link to its translation and pronunciation in both forms of written Chinese, Toisanese, and Cantonese.
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Rain Rain

by David Liao

The drops collect in my notebook ( Read more... )

Note: This was meant to be up on Tuesday but it took longer to create than I thought, so I sincerely apologize. To be very clear, this is a look at Pakistan's leadership, its politics, and relationship to the world and should not be taken as an evaluation of its people or culture - which would be inaccurate and racist ( Read more... )