Assignment 1 for CHN11 finally came back. I reckon 85% is a bloody good mark.

I’ve organised the lovely librarian at Hawthorn to be my invigilator for the Chinese exam. Assignment 2 is now under way, along with other assessable items for my other study units. It’s starting to get a bit hectic!

So if you asked me right now, How’re things going? zěnmeyàng?
I’d have two words to reply with, Very busy hěn máng

wǒ huì yìdiǎnr zhōngwén.

References

How to put Pinyin with tone marks on Web pages.

I’m studying Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) 1A through Griffith University. It’s worth doing a search through Firefox add-ons for Chinese within language support for things like

• Chinese-Japanese-English Character Hint Bar
• Moji side-bar and dictionaries can be found at http://moji.mozdev.org/
• Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator
• Try tunes from Petrol Exotic’s Shanghai: The Sex, The City, The Music like track 2 The Wandering Songstress Remix by Chow Hsuan