My first month after moving to China was not a blissful honeymoon. It was a month of confusion, nerves, and stress – the good kind and the bad – peppered with lots of fun. (Like the mouth-numbing peppercorns in nearly every dish here – surprising, not entirely comfortable, but intriguing.) The amount of work that […]
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Learning Mandarin in China: “No, Really. I Don’t Understand.”
One of my best and favorite phrases I’ve learned in Mandarin – and definitely the only one I use in every single conversation, even though it takes my pride down a notch – is this: “Tīng bù dǒng.” It means, “I don’t understand.” Before I expat-ed myself to China, learning such a phrase seemed like […]
Patience.
I’m working on many things. One of them is moving to China. Another is this site.
