Have you ever wanted to know how to order food at Subway in Chinese? If so, then read on!

紅豆餠 Hosted on Zooomr

Tonight I went to a Harbin restaurant that Martin found a few weeks ago. The cool thing about this restaurant is that the laoban actually is from Harbin. Unlike the other Chinese restaurants I’ve been to in Taiwan, this one is pretty authentic. There were great lamb kabobs, quite a few potato [...]

Tone Marks on Roadsigns Part I- Mark’s opening argument.
Tone Marks on Roadsigns Part II- Prince Roy’s opening argument.
Tone Marks on Roadsigns Part III- Mark’s rebuttal.
Tone Marks on Roadsigns Part IV- Prince Roy’s rebuttal.

What should the road signs have on them?

Mark was right, characters and pinyin with tones (42%)

Prince Roy was right, characters and pinyin without [...]

Dueling Lăowài is a new feature on Toshuo.com. This is my rebuttal of Prince Roy’s arguments against adding tone marks to roadsigns. If you missed the opening arguments of our friendly debate, be sure to check them out!

Dueling Lăowài is a new feature on Toshuo.com. Each “duel” will consist of four pieces by two writers: each writer will write one opening argument and one rebuttal.

As I’ve written before, my school is in the process of finding another teacher. Unfortunately, most of the candidates so far have been woefully unqualified. So, I went into Taibei to put up some recruiting advertisements around some of the bigger Mandarin schools for foreigners.
After that, I hung out with Martin for a [...]

To Chinese people, maybe this sign looks normal. But, as a former Japanese student, I found this sign very amusing.

手紙- a false cognateHosted on Zooomr

In every language I know of that has borrowed from the Chinese writing system, 手 means hand and 紙 means paper. Many many words made out of multiple characters [...]