Chinese Halloween Vocab
It's that spooky time of year, and though not a much-celebrated holiday in China, why not expand your Chinese vocabulary to include these wicked words.
This simple Halloween language primer will have you howling out Halloween lingo in Chinese faster than deciding whether Chinese is a trick or a treat.
What is melamine? Is it in my milk?
Every few months the media seems to dig up a new quality control issue with Chinese products. Many of these are largely just typical media fear factoring, but the recent "melamine in milk" debacle is very real and very wide-spanning.
If you're like us, you probably gasped in horror when it was reported that virtually every major distributor's milk in China was tainted with melamine. Then, again if you're like us, you stopped and said, "wait, what exactly is melamine?"
Access Blogger and Wordpress Blogs in China
Many of the largest free blogging services are blocked in China by the GFW. As we here at Lost Laowai believe strongly in freedom of speech and freedom of expression - below find instructions on how to set your computer up to access blogs that are hosted at two of the largest free blog hosts - Blogger/Blogspot and Wordpress.com.
A common way to access such blogs is to go through a Web-based proxy service, or use a collection of proxy/anonymizer programs such as Tor. Though these are well and good, the following method will allow you a much quicker access time - as rather than bouncing around the globe through a proxy service, this simply slips a non-blocked IP in place of the blocked one. That's cool, trust us.
How to get a QQ account in English
QQ, for those that don't know, is China's most popular IM software. Usage is so widespread that among the younger generation you're near as likely to get someone's QQ # as you are their mobile number.
For expats in China and wishing to make friends with local Chinese, having a QQ account is a must. Though Western-based IMs are also popular, with Windows Live Messenger quickly grabbing ground from Tencents QQ, using the Chinese-made product will win you lots of points with your new found friends.
Though Tencent has had an English version of the QQ software since 2005, until recently English-speaking QQ-wannabes had to bribe their Chinese friends to do the registration process for them, asking them to signup and get them a coveted QQ # that can be plugged into the software and connect you to the Chinese IM world.
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