Author: SleepyMario
Lesson 1-1: Transcription Systems in Chinese
As you probably have discovered, reading out loud a sentence such as「你好嗎」gets a little troublesome, regardless of the meaning. Compare this to a sentence such as “Ik ga morgen een nieuwe auto kopen”., and at least you can try to get somewhere by using what you know about English. For…
On Old Ideas and Being Medicalized
I returned to university a few years ago to write some Master thesis and have something to do apart from having my life being wasted by torturous campaigns designed by geniuses. That obviously did not work out, because the range of ‘the genius’ is quite endless so to say. So…
A Tiny Update
Hiya everyone. I just added the Lichess puzzle of the day and Lichess TV to this little blog. The few chess players around might just care enough about it. Enjoy!
Learning Chinese as a second language
Dear all. The following section will having a section where you can learn Chinese, starting from absolute level zero. We will see how advanced we can get. I’m sure there’s all kinds of learning material on platforms like Youtube as well, but I just want to do it in the…
Back to the usual, with ‘just’ a 10 year break
It’s about time get back to doing something. It should not have gone like this. Organized torture is something that ought to be paid for. But I’ll just do what I was actually doing. Which is learning/translating languages. A pity of the past few wasted years. I hope the scientists…