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Grandma’s Crazy Phrasebook #13: Mosquito Bites

June 29th, 2009 | No Comments

“I’ve got a mosquito bite on my face.”

我的臉被蚊子咬.
Wo3 de5 lian3 bei4 wen2 zi5 yao3.

顔を蚊に刺されました。
Kao wo ka ni sasaremashita.

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A Compendium of Useless Spanish Phrases

June 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

…you can probably guess what I watched today from this list:

  • ¡Inconcebible! Sigue usando esa palabra. No creo que significa lo que cree que significa.
  • ¡No soy zurdo! ¡No tampoco zurdo!

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Where Are You Going? To See My Friend!

June 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Cover of Where Are You Going? To See My Friend! I basically abandoned both my Chinese and Japanese texts as of this post and its sleep-inducing adventures learning Chinese at Seton Hall University.

I’m seeing the wisdom in Khatzumoto’s principle: if it’s not something you’d voluntarily read in your L1, why bother with it in L2? Read/watch the fun stuff first; it’ll help with the boring stuff later.

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