新年快乐！

大家好！

Well, it sounds like they are dynamiting the city, so I suppose it must be that time of the year again. Happy New Year (again) everyone! I'd like to think this gives me a second chance at my New Years resolutions.

You might remember I posted a while back about a site we were working on, http://www.zhongwenred.com. We've been putting a lot of work into the site lately, and it might be worth taking a look. We're going to be adding more dialogs and explications of the target language for each lesson over the next month, so hopefully it will be even more robust and useful... of course, the site is free and you don't have to register or anything, so it's good for a quick glance in between classes or while waiting around at a net cafe, etc. We added a search feature via Google which works pretty well, so you can find something pretty quickly now.

Sorry for rubbing it in, but here it is sooo quiet and peaceful 

Happy Spring Festival! 

Quiet here today as well.  I'm waiting to see what happens tonight! 

Happy New Year, everyone!

ALJ, kudos on the Mandarin site...

As we are fond of saying around the office, "Day Day Up, Hard Hard Study!" [好好学习天天向上 - hǎohǎo xuéxí tiāntiān xiàngshàng!]

The few remaining people in Beijing are already celebrating by blowing small pieces of their motherland to kingdom come. Whatever...one thing I like about living here is that I get to celebrate my favourite holiday twice. Looking forward to the fireworks tonight! 

What a great site, Al!  I just bokmarked it, and will hammer away at it over vacation.   

I'm watching it on CCTV9 now.  They are about to start the final countdown now.

Happy New Year!
 

Here in Zhaoqing it sounds like all hell has broken loose.  Sort of like a war-zone.  But it is a happy time isn't it.  My friend who arrived from Australia two days ago, and I had a dinner with the head of the English Dept, and his lovely, newly pregnant wife, and his family.  A noisy, family time, that I feel privileged to be invited to be a part of. 

Happy Chinese New Year to you all.

Lin
Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province

Woohoo!  Check the time stamp on my post above.   

I wish I was in China.  2 years ago, an unofficial fireworks barrage reached the point of having a smoke cloud so thick that the explosions just lit up the cloud.  Kind of like watching a nebula with a severe problem with stars going nova inside.  'Twas cool!!!

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      :_\/_:   .    .:.*_\/_*   : /\ :  .'.:.'.
  .''.: /\ : _\(/_  ':'* /\ *  : '..'.  -=:o:=-
 :_\/_:'.:::. /)\*''*  .|.* '.\'/.'_\(/_'.':'.'
 : /\ : :::::  '*_\/_* | |  -= o =- /)\    '  *
  '..'  ':::'   * /\ * |'|  .'/.\'.  '._____
      *        __*..* |  |     :      |.   |' .---"|
       _*   .-'   '-. |  |     .--'|  ||   | _|    |
    .-'|  _.|  |    ||   '-__  |   |  |    ||      |
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 ___|  '-'     '    ""       '-'   '-.'    '`      |____
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Whee!  30 minutes of everything go boom!  That was fun.

im loving your site since im planning to going back to china if given a good deal..im RE learning chinese!

since we have been invaded by the chineses, we also celeb their chinese new year but it's not as loud their in china. and i hated when everytime they celebrate anything they need to use those firecrackers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!