Hello readers!
After a short break, I’m happy to report that tonight I’ve done quite a bit of Chinese homework. First I did some reading and listening practice with a nice book of children’s stories that comes with a CD and that I’ll tell you about another time. After that I went to ChinesePod and worked through Dream Girls, which is an intermediate lesson.
When I was tired of doing proper work I had a surf around for Chinese resources and found a couple of great things!
The first thing is this inspired article:
Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2: Playing computer games in Chinese
I just loved it so much. Obviously, my first thought was ‘can I play World of Warcraft in Chinese’? Well, it looks like Blizzard doesn’t want to make that very easy, you can’t just tell your European game client to start speaking Chinese, I’d need a new client and possibly a new account, which could get expensive. But I bet there are Chinese-language WoW fan sites and things like that that I could enjoy. The logic of learning Chinese via your other hobbies appeals to me a lot.
So while I was surfing around, I found this, which is hilarious, or at least it is if you play WoW.
And THEN, I found this. Warcraft theme park! In China! Look at the majesty!
More breathtaking photos by World of Joyland visitor Francesca Timbers.
It is in Changzhou. Yes, I totally am thinking of going there to check it out.
The Hanyu You Want 