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Month: April 2014

Posted inChina Chinese Culture Learning Chinese

Untangling the Complex Chinese Term "Laowai"

One of the first terms that every foreigner learns after landing in china is 老外 laowai, which means, essentially, foreigner. Even if a foreigner eschews every single other chinese word, they cannot avoid this one. That’s

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Posted By Becky Ances Posted on April 30, 2014
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Posted inChina Chinese Culture Traveling

"Chinawood." Exploring Ancient China through Movie Sets

In college I moved to Los Angeles and spent my last semester working in a movie studio. Being an intern my job was sometimes to run around delivering things, and as a result I ended

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Posted By Becky Ances Posted on April 24, 2014
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The Friendly Way to Call Other People in China

On Facebook I recently linked to a Ted.com article about how speaking different languages affect your brain. In the article they use an example of Mandarin and how people address the family. In China there

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Posted By Becky Ances Posted on April 18, 2014
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Mold problem? What Mold Problem?

So, remember when a year ago I wrote that there was a leak in the wall (coming from my bathroom) that was soaking through the concrete, and despite my repeated attempts at getting it fixed,

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Posted By Becky Ances Posted on April 13, 2014
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Posted inChina Chinese Culture

Mid-Semester Life

Things are humming along, as they tend to do in the mid-semester mark. The flurry and excitement of the break and new semester has worn off, and the end of the semester is just a

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Posted By Becky Ances Posted on April 11, 2014
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You're on Color! (Our new bet)

A few months ago, I said that my best friend Color won a bet we had started almost two years prior. (My punishment is going to be that I have to cook thai food for

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Posted By Becky Ances Posted on April 9, 2014
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Posted inChina Writing

And the Winner is……….

……not me. So remember when I begged for you to vote for me in the Lotus Blossoms Award a few months ago. Well, the winner was announced and it was some other woman. (Ember Swift

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Posted By Becky Ances Posted on April 6, 2014
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