Confused Laowai

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Jul 19, 2015
Two cool new projects on the block
Nov 18, 2014
Balancing Skills: First up Listening
Oct 14, 2014
Testing... is this mic still on?
Jul 31, 2013
Where in the world is Confused Laowai?
Jul 24, 2013
Comprehensive Onomatopoeia List
Mar 12, 2013
Phonetic Sets in Chinese Characters
Feb 25, 2013
Is immersion the answer to all language learning problems?
Feb 10, 2013
Year of the Snake!
Jan 11, 2013
Introducing HanziCraft
Jan 10, 2013
Chinese Character Challenge - Level up!
Jan 7, 2013
I'm in Taiwan!
Nov 13, 2012
Taiwan 2013
Nov 10, 2012
ChineseCUBES Review: A Novel Way To Start Learning Chinese
Nov 5, 2012
The Dark Side of 玄
Oct 15, 2012
Radicals sorted by their first occurrence in HSK
Oct 13, 2012
Gangnam Style hits Beijing with hilarious Laowai Style [Video]
Oct 1, 2012
HanziJS gets updated. Now with more decomposition data!
Sep 27, 2012
9 Essential Digital Tools for Chinese Learners
Sep 4, 2012
Batman of Shanghai
Aug 24, 2012
10 Really Interesting and Cool Chinese Characters
Aug 20, 2012
What do you know if you learned the most frequent Chinese characters?
Aug 12, 2012
Call me Maybe in Chinese
Jul 29, 2012
FluentFlix first impressions plus beta invites!
Jul 24, 2012
Introducing Chinese 3D
Jul 23, 2012
Review of Yoyo Chinese
Jul 19, 2012
Languages on the Internet [Infographic]
Jul 18, 2012
The misty haze of Chinese dialects
Jul 9, 2012
Crazy English! Where are the unorthodox Mandarin techniques?
Jun 20, 2012
The Four Strands of Language Learning
Jun 19, 2012
Duolingo Launches
Jun 12, 2012
Skritter for iPhone launches
Jun 8, 2012
Onomatopoeia in Chinese
May 24, 2012
5 ways Chinese radicals are sub-consciously trolling you
May 16, 2012
Mandarin Madness Review - A Chinese Vocabulary Learning App
May 15, 2012
Awesome Links for Chinese Learners
May 15, 2012
BreakFAST! - An entertaining Taiwanese shortcom
May 6, 2012
A visit from Beijing JiaoTong University and how 姜 trolled me
Apr 26, 2012
Introducing Leiden Weibo Corpus
Apr 25, 2012
Giving ChinesePod the deserved listen
Apr 24, 2012
Benny's 3-Month Mandarin Mission: A Follow Up
Apr 16, 2012
Clear the Stage for Banmaxian《斑马线来了》- Hit Chinese Web series by Feichang Fresh member
Mar 19, 2012
Introducing Hanzi - A Character Decomposition Tool
Mar 6, 2012
Introducing 3000Hanzi
Feb 20, 2012
Logograms, mysticism and why people get terrible Chinese tattoos
Feb 13, 2012
Introducing ChineseLevel - Test your Chinese Reading
Feb 6, 2012
Chinese Characters in the Wild
Jan 31, 2012
Omnipotent Youth Society - 万能年青旅店
Jan 16, 2012
On Learning Chinese in 3 Months
Jan 15, 2012
Chinese Ligatures
Jan 12, 2012
Tonally Orthographic Pinyin
Dec 15, 2011
Chinese Rage Comics
Dec 14, 2011
A Chiptune Song I wrote while travelling in Shanghai
Dec 5, 2011
Confused Laowai blog turns two years old
Nov 30, 2011
So what color is 青 really? Blue? Green? Help!
Nov 9, 2011
Pinyin Sudoku
Nov 3, 2011
Chinese Test Fail
Oct 31, 2011
Big Update to Social Mandarin
Oct 25, 2011
Introducing Chinese Basics
Oct 23, 2011
I have a drinking problem
Oct 9, 2011
All Posts
Oct 5, 2011
Oddities in Chinese: Hanyu Pinyin Syllables
Oct 3, 2011
Doing SRS the fun way
Sep 27, 2011
Now with more Social Media & Beer
Sep 25, 2011
Defining the Sinosphere
Sep 21, 2011
The Epic Adventures of Princess Moonface
Sep 20, 2011
Revisiting SRS and Flashcards
Sep 15, 2011
Tencent's Intelligent Eye Appears
Sep 5, 2011
Radtacular Radicals
Aug 31, 2011
The plight of Hollywood Chinese
Aug 30, 2011
Feichang Fresh on repeat
Aug 21, 2011
Xiamen Impressions
Aug 18, 2011
Social Mandarin Redesign is live
Aug 13, 2011
Translation in Chinese: An experiment in Chinese & SEO
Aug 12, 2011
Feeling a bit stuck and lost
Aug 10, 2011
Shanghai Impressions
Aug 3, 2011
Useful Chinese I picked up while in China
Jul 26, 2011
Two More Language Stories from China Travels
Jul 25, 2011
China Round 2: My Language Experience
Jul 19, 2011
China Round 2: The Experience
Jul 14, 2011
Back from China
Jun 11, 2011
Chinese Superman Comics
Jun 8, 2011
Update on trip to China
May 31, 2011
Bitcoin in China - 比特币
May 29, 2011
Mandarin Poster Review
May 26, 2011
My Mandarin research assignment
May 22, 2011
Flights are booked for China
May 19, 2011
The Illusion of Language Learning
May 11, 2011
A rant on Chinese's Easy Grammar
May 3, 2011
Chinese-Ordered English
Apr 21, 2011
Social Mandarin Newsletter
Apr 20, 2011
Travelling to China
Apr 19, 2011
Lingomi's RPG Scorecard Chinese Proficiency Assesment
Apr 15, 2011
Super Junior M - 太完美
Apr 10, 2011
Tonal Languages and Perfect Pitch
Apr 4, 2011
Chinese signs and its linguistic landscape
Mar 13, 2011
The most spontaneous Chinese I've spoken was to a Laowai
Mar 7, 2011
The strange abyss of Chinese Characters
Mar 2, 2011
If you want an SRS program, Skritter is the way to go
Feb 4, 2011
Your Mandarin Learning Experience
Dec 28, 2010
2010: A Year in Review
Dec 22, 2010
Quick Social Mandarin Update
Dec 12, 2010
Cui Jian's Greenhouse Girl (花房姑娘)
Nov 15, 2010
Is Chinese a good choice for your first foreign language?
Nov 15, 2010
Interview with La Loupe
Nov 14, 2010
Critical Frequency Experiment
Nov 11, 2010
Flashcards and Second Language Acquisition
Nov 7, 2010
Social Mandarin Widget
Oct 27, 2010
L-Lingo Review
Oct 22, 2010
The Craziest Chinese Poem I've Seen
Oct 9, 2010
MDBG now with more Jukuu
Oct 7, 2010
How do you learn vocabulary?
Sep 9, 2010
On Being A Laowai
Sep 5, 2010
The Weirdest (and most beautiful) Chinese Idiom I've Seen
Sep 1, 2010
My Future in Mandarin
Aug 28, 2010
My Chinese Textbooks for University
Aug 18, 2010
HSK Tests in my Future
Aug 7, 2010
Laowai Speaking Chinese on Youtube
Aug 5, 2010
Blogs and Dictionaries
Jul 28, 2010
Learning Chinese through Watching TV
Jul 25, 2010
Laowai Chinese Music
Jul 21, 2010
How long does it take to learn Chinese?
Jul 1, 2010
Holiday Time
Jun 6, 2010
Watch out for the learning trap!
May 31, 2010
You know you're progressing in Mandarin when...
May 15, 2010
My Trip to Beijing June '09
Apr 25, 2010
Soccer World Cup South Africa
Apr 21, 2010
Google Chrome Translator Plugin - Zhongwen
Apr 12, 2010
5 Mistakes I made when I started learning Chinese
Mar 31, 2010
The Tipping Point
Mar 27, 2010
Watch Chinese TV Online
Mar 20, 2010
Online Mandarin Dictionaries
Mar 12, 2010
Social Mandarin Testing
Feb 9, 2010
Mandarin Blog Roundup
Feb 8, 2010
Free Chinese Dictionary for Symbian Phones
Jan 25, 2010
Back at University 回到大学
Jan 11, 2010
Anki Flashcards
Jan 9, 2010
Getting creative with 汉字
Jan 7, 2010
My Favourite Chinese Expression 我的最喜欢的言辞
Jan 6, 2010
LiWei Art
Dec 17, 2009
Back in January
Dec 12, 2009
Contact Me
Dec 11, 2009
Google Wave and #MandarinMonday
Dec 9, 2009
Welcome 欢迎!
Dec 9, 2009
About Me