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Review of Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows

Chinese, Just for Fun, Language and Culture, Reviews

This is a short, entertaining, accessible book on an interesting topic.

Review and Summary of Arrival (2016 movie)

Just for Fun, Language and Culture, Reviews

Quibble how you will about inaccuracies in the depiction of linguistics, the fact that Hollywood deigns to depict a linguist at all is nice.

Review of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)

Chinese, Reviews

It’s as if Kafka decided to write a book with Carl Sagan, M.C. Escher, and the author of Flatland, and set it in China.

Ruth Chew books in Japanese

Global Collections, Japanese, Just for Fun

I now have 24 of Ruth Chew’s books in Japanese.

The Little Prince in Thai (and as a pop-up book)

French, Global Collections, Just for Fun

My collection of copies of The Little Prince just got bigger!

Vietnamese books

Just for Fun, Language and Culture, Vietnamese

Whenever I travel, I visit the bookstores.

The Little Prince in Translation

French, Global Collections, Just for Fun

Here are my copies of The Little Prince in Lao(atian), Khmer (the language of Cambodia), Vietnamese, Portuguese, the original French, and Italian.

Review of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (translated by a commitee)

German, Reviews

There must be better translations out there. I just read the free one from Gutenberg.

Why Chinese is hard

Chinese, Just for Fun, Language and Culture

7. “There are too many [romanization methods], and most of them were designed either by committee or by linguists, or — even worse — by a committee of linguists.”

Object dropping

Chinese, Just for Fun, Language and Culture, Singlish

Some utterances in Singlish can seem incomplete.

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