This tool allows you to translate from English, from pinyin, or from Chinese characters.

As an example, type in Cat and then either hit enter or click the Go button. You’ll see the Chinese character and the pinyin. Click on the character in the first column and you’ll get a pop up. If you click [...]

Ever have one of those weekends where you looked forward to going back to work so you could get some rest? That was me last night. We had fun, but I really need a few days to recuperate from all of that fun.
It’s Monday evening in China, but I don’t see any rumors about [...]

There is some road construction I’m having to go through every day, and it’s really annoying. Those who can go around it, are. Those who can’t, are suffering through. I went around it one day and it took me five minutes longer than waiting through the construction. Where I need to be is just on [...]

According to my last When post, we probably won’t begin seeing rumors until sometime next week. Of course, anything can happen, but the numbers say we aren’t likely to see rumors just yet.
Let’s talk today about our favorite places to visit in China. Mine is easy, I love Guilin. Hong Kong is also a nice [...]

I can’t believe it’s time for all of the back to school stuff already. TT has already had her two Kindergarten Social thingies, where we learned that the upcoming kindergarten class is 75 percent boys and 25 percent girls, and it’s the largest group of siblings, ever. There were only something like 18 spots open [...]

If you’ve got a YouTube video (or other video site that you can link to here) of your kids that you’d like to share, please share the link to it in today’s comments.
Please do not email videos to me – only link to videos already uploaded. You can also embed the video in the [...]