Squareface @ 31°North

Probably a useless thought, but I’m wondering if my job position is “Junior Content Specialist Editor”, am I supposed to be a “content specialist” or a “specialist editor”. Do they mean the same thing?
Anyways. So it’s been a week at the office. What’s my take on the job? I got to do some semi-creative writing [...]

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Singaporeans are mocked, laughed at, and made fun of because of our reputation with our language(s). Can’t blame foreigners or ourselves for doing so because these exist:

(found this powerful image at STOMP’s website, under “Friends of Stomp”)
For the majority of Singaporeans, being Chinese, we pretty much have a confused mother tongue, or a different concept [...]

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While doing my folklore module term paper, I came across some English-pronunciation-influenced Chinese, or Chinese pronunciation of English:
“那摩温”: number one
“司冒而”: small
“德律风”: telephone
“大拉斯”: dollars
“康姆”: come
“谷”: go
“吞的福”: twenty four
“也司”: yes
“扑铁秃”: potato
I’m actually doing a paper on food and festival culture but just thought this is interesting. Taken from a Shanghai Folklore book.

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As some of you already know, I’m picking up some Korean as we go along, but my Korean vocabulary is somewhere around a four-year-old and my grammar probably… a two-year-old? Do they start talking at two?
So today we were having a nice sam gyup sal (BBQ pork belly) dinner at a friend’s place and naturally [...]

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During my summer vacation back on the sunny island I worked for a brief period of time at a certain foreign bank. While for most of it I was soaking in monotony, there were instances that made me chuckle, or perhaps I seeked laughable instances so that I can entertain myself.
I was looking at a [...]

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Don’t judge till you read the end!
P/T Englihs Editer
Living style media and the adevrtising companies seeks for Some times working some times resting foreigner language Editer needs.
The Must to have things:
1. The original born English speaking one
2. To be more than 23 years living time
3. The one can rely, would to take responsible and is [...]

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
And why am I torturing myself so?

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Speak My Language

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From my Chinese textbook 《Hochschuldeutsch (1)》 and UBC textbook for German “Treffpunkt Deutsch” (pp 9) respectively:
ch 读作[ç]，为清辅音，读音与汉语“xi”的声母“x”相似，但发[ç]时嘴张得较大，舌尖向下接近下门齿，嘴角向后咧。ch 在 e, i, ei, eu, äu, ä, ö, ü 和所有辅音后面均发[ç]。
German ch
After i and e, the sound represented by ch is pronounced like a loudly whispered h in huge. (this is so damn straightforward)
ch 在 a, o, [...]

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Back at UBC I was learning Beginners’ German from a German PhD student whose lessons were quite fun and engaging. Even though he was unsure of certain grammatic rules, we always forgave him because beads of perspiration would form on his head even in the midst of winter. Our German textbook introduces grammar step by [...]

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