http://www.michaelstudman.com/fullfathomfive/articles/tag/chinese?tag=chinese en-us 40 the blog of Michael Studman <p><em>Poem:</em> <a href="http://chinese.michaelstudman.com/post/221016">A famous Chinese poem</a> with <a href="http://www.chinapage.org/libai014.html">translation</a> - by one of China&#8217;s most famous ancient poets - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Bai">Li Bai</a>.</a><p/> <em>Quote:</em> <a href="http://chinese.michaelstudman.com/post/220911">John de Francis on the nature of Chinese characters</a> Repeat after me: &#8220;Chinese characters are words, not pictogaphs&#8221;.</p> <p> For those who don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve been studying Mandarin on and off since about 1999. I&#8217;m shite at it, but not as shite as some. It&#8217;s time to share my reading material with everyone else in the hope we all get less shite together. </p> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:03:00 -0400 urn:uuid:c4345ad6-4453-4fea-accd-563044f790ca Michael Studman http://www.michaelstudman.com/fullfathomfive/articles/2007/04/23/newest-posts-on-mstudman-on-chinese 2007 tumblelog ramblings chinese mandarin