Vacation
This weekend I’m going on vacation for a month. I’m spending 2 weeks in Japan. I’ll be visiting friends in Osaka and Tokyo and also visiting a couple of places I haven’t been in Japan: Takayama and Nagasaki. I bought myself a Japan Rail pass to travel around. I hardly spoken any Japanese in the [...]
Posted by Aidan under Travel, Travel - Japan, Travel - World | Permalink | No Comments »Australia the top destination for ‘Chuppies’
Although the number of Japanese tourists to Australia has been decreasing in recent years, the number of Chinese visiting has greatly increased. Visa restrictions have been eased for Chinese tourists and China now has a lot more wealthy people. Chuppies is a word I hadn’t heard before, but some people use it to describe Chinese [...]
Posted by Aidan under Travel, Travel - Japan, Travel - World | Permalink | No Comments »Beijing to make most locals speak English
The Chinese government is trying to make Beijing a more international city and increase the number of Chinese that speak English. Beijing to make most locals speak English http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/beijing-to-make-most-locals-speak-english-20100720-10ihd.html Related Articles: The Japanese tourist who joined Pakistani mountain tribe Chinese Fast Trains Spelling Bees Studying at Disney World Nightingale Floors Please support my blog by [...]
Posted by Aidan under Travel, Travel - Japan, Travel - World | Permalink | No Comments »Stop using English, China tells TV stations
Stop using English, China tells TV stations http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1036720 Basketball without “NBA”? The state of the economy without “GDP”? This could be the new reality for television viewers in China, as Beijing has reportedly curbed on-air use of English abbreviations. China Central Television and Beijing Television told the state-run China Daily that they had received notification [...]
Posted by Aidan under Travel, Travel - Japan, Travel - World | Permalink | No Comments »English not OK: Chinese translator
THE ”invasion” of English words into the Chinese language must be stopped, the country’s most senior translator claims. Huang Youyi, of the International Federation of Translators, one of the country’s largest publishers, says that words such as OK, bye-bye, nice, modern and guitar are slipping into everyday Chinese and causing problems. Mr Huang said: ”If [...]
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