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Friday, August 12th, 2011
Contrary to what one of my students said,
It's very fun! I think that it is a good for learning Chinese.
I actually don't think there's much pedagogical value to the song (although I did try to use the most common / useful characters I could). But I still thought it might be fun to ...
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010
In the spirit of the season (and also because I haven't had time to get to any of the 70 drafts waiting for me), I'd like to give you 3 new, original songs as a little present for the holidays.
1. Yǐwéi 以为 by me
Part of the ongoing 我不是东西 collection or ...
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
I'm delighted to announce that my sister Marie has just finished recording two Mandarin songs here in my little studio.
1. Rich Girl
I wrote the song with our college's hip hop dance team in mind (I haven't heard from them whether they like the song or not yet). I invented a ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Here's an up-tempo, happy pop song from the singer of such classics as "In A Thousand Years" and "Back to Back Hug" (translations coming someday...maybe). I've actually seen Lín Jùnjié 林俊杰 perform live and he was great (assuming he was really singing what I was hearing).
Here's my humble attempt at ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
My little Audacity-powered home recording studio just cranked out my third Chinese pop song: Kuàilè 快乐 (Happy).
Inspirational Story
It was my friend Adrian who first said, "Have you ever noticed every Chinese pop song has the word 'kuàilè' 快乐 in it?" He's pretty much right. Of course there are about three ...
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