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Archive for January, 2006

White Radish, or Daikon(Japanese), 白蘿蔔(萝卜)bai2luo2bo2(Chinese)
Cantonese use it in White Radish cake 蘿蔔糕(萝卜糕)luo2bo2gao1, one of their Dim Sum(Dian3xin) 點心(点心).

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(credit: photo from wikipedia.com click here to read more about this vegetable and the name daikon )

Are you interested in all other Chinese food? We started a new category for Chinese Food here.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” —- Martin Luther King, Jr

I really love the great speeches like this above. You can find the full text of it here or listen to the mp3 of his address here: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm

His speeches are so dynamic that you should listen to them from time to time to learn how to speak. Go to his official site for more. (Listen to the speech in its Flash introduction and enjoy.)

At whitehouse.gov, you can find lots of President’s Radio Addresses with audio and scripts which are really good materials to learn good English: Bush’s radio address on Jan 7th, 2006 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060107.html
His address on Christmas Eve. And other addresses in archives.

Dictionary and Reference books:

(type in a strange word, and you may get the pronunciation and definitions in many languages, including English, Japanese, Chinese, etc. and much more..)

Free Desktop Tools:

( great dictioanary for your desktop. Remember to set a good hotkey and then after you run it, highlight the word you need to lookup and press the hot key. I set Ctrl+Q as my hot key and it works well)

Free Resources To Learn English:

We will update this page from time to time.

Chinese computer has become easier and easier as companies such as Microsoft and Linux developers contribute lots of free tools and resources.

Chinese Fonts can be found at
Microsoft Unicode font download search

And you can read a very helpful article about Unicode for Chinese pinyin at Prof. Xie’s page:
Unicode Pinyin Fonts

This site is in Unicode, so it is very easy to use pinyin fonts:
ā á ǎ à ō ó ǒ ò ē é ě è ī í ǐ ì ū ú ǔ ù ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ ü Ā Á Ǎ À Ō Ó Ǒ Ò Ē É Ě È using the html font tag … font FACE=”Arial, Helvetica”…

ā á ǎ à ō ó ǒ ò
ē é ě è ī í ǐ ì
ū ú ǔ ù ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ ü
Ā Á Ǎ À Ō Ó Ǒ Ò
Ē É Ě È
Lucida Sans Unicode:
ā á ǎ à ō ó ǒ ò ē é ě è ī í ǐ ì ū ú ǔ ù ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ ü Ā Á Ǎ À Ō Ó Ǒ Ò Ē É Ě È
Courier New
ā á ǎ à ō ó ǒ ò ē é ě è ī í ǐ ì ū ú ǔ ù ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ ü Ā Á Ǎ À Ō Ó Ǒ Ò Ē É Ě È