China related blogs are a necessity to deal with my endless curiosity for the Chinese culture but they're not enough. I still need the class interaction and dynamics, that which I've experienced last year when I joined up the East-Asia department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a listener.
As the new academic year 2006-7 [...]
An important part of studying Chinese is listening to the language to learn new words and to get used to the sound flow for the words with their tones. One of the ways to help Chinese students do that is by listening to some Chinese Podcasts that can be found around the web. Since I've [...]
Reading Chinese for those not Chinese born is a difficult task. I've seen some good Chinese students stay away from reading Chinese material because they figured it's an impossible task.
So, here's my small guide on how a Chinese beginner, such as myself, can read through Chinese based websites using simple extensions provided for the Firefox [...]
If you could research anything that's related to Asian culture - China, Taiwan, Chinese culture or expat life in Asia, what would it be about? What are you interested in?
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In the past few months I've been contemplating about a research subject. The main theme for such research combines subjects that I've been involved with academically [...]
Which are the top universities in Asia? how do those compare to other universities around the world? it depends on who you ask. Having been educated in the very western-oriented university in Israel - the Hebrew University - I’ve been given the feeling that universities in Asia aren’t that good of an option. If you [...]
The Chinese Garden, a community for Chinese-related students, has moved to a new home with a completely new redesign.
About the Chinese Garden :
It had all begun in one of the classes held by Lin, the university's Chinese teacher. It had been autumn 2001 in the first-year Chinese course, comprised of students who came to the [...]
Imagine seeing a westerner speaking fluent Chinese. How would that look to you?
Me? I would be utterly jealous, obviously, as it’s what I’m trying to study (and not doing too well on that). But, is that how most people feel?
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Spending some time in Taiwan studying Chinese I’ve met quite a lot of foreigners who were [...]
Bezalel, a world class Israeli art school located in Jerusalem, has a big showcase for Israeli art at the old airport terminal (terminal 1). It's quite worth the visit, and there's plenty to see in the exhibition, but there are also special theme seminars everyday. Yesterday's seminar was about Chinese art, called "East - a [...]
