Hope someone out there can help!Can anyone here help me with a simple question?

Which organisation offers the best Chinese language courses? I am not looking for  university level but rather somewhere that you go for a few hours each week to develop basic skills in both reading and speaking.

Hope someone out there can help!

Everyone from the UK will know the Dandy, the famous comic for children but it looks like it is going to close!I used to be a member of the Desperate Dan Pie Club. A sad day indeed

Britain's oldest comic The Dandy faces closure after 75 years as sales fall to just 8,000 a week



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A firm in the Australian outback is so desperate to attract good workers that it is offering successful applicants free beer for a year.

Like most remote towns in the country, Moree in New South Wales has had trouble keeping young people away from the lure of higher salaries offered by mining firms and heavy industry, says Eric Scott, operation manager for Electrical and Air Conditioning Services.

But extra health benefits, holiday…

Ok - a fun game - what does this word mean?

Now, for those of you who do not know, pork scratchings are the most wonderful snack to go with a cool beer in the evening.

Mahatma Jack has perfected the art of creating the perfect snack

We will be launching this new product SOON!

We have the expertise, we can do the marketing!

This is our first idea - a bag - like a bag of crisps with the following inscirption:

MAHATMA JACK'S PORK…

OK - Garret and Jack are both men about town

Here is a challenge

To write a weekly expose of the bar life in the Chun - to be posted every week, on a Monday in ChangchunLive.com

Are you guys up for it?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A question - what are the eccentric, strange, wonderful, bizarre, experiences you have had in Changchun?

To kick off......

I was moving house and my girlfriend was directing the taxi I was in. Another taxi pulled in front of us at a traffic lights. The lights were on red.

My taxi driver got upset and stormed out of his taxi, went up to the taxi in front of us and pulled open the door and a full fist fight ensued

The lights turned to green and my taxi driver rushed…

Its all good

I like it

When I was in Guangzho

No, no, no, no, no,no - ok - just one more

I met him once

its awesome

Who are they and can you add any more?

This is just an idea. Lets hold a SPECIAL poetry day in nanhu Park celebrating some of the great poets/dramatists/writers from around the worl

I will work on Shakespeare

Here are some of his great pieces:

Famous Speeches from Shakespeare's plays

Tell us a little about your home town here!

What words come to mind when you think of this phrase:

The love of money is the root of all evil.  Greed?  Corruption? Vanity?  What about when I simply say the word money? Do those descriptors still come to mind or do you think of ways that money can be useful – payment for hard work, tool for doing good, a transfer of value.

A  debate!

On the one hand, Old Richard, Fin and Ward will argue for the…

In light of the fact that tomorrow is July 4th, I have been asked to post this on behalf of her majesty's Government

To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other…

Does anyone know anything about this? It could be interesting!

This is all I know

The List of the Participant Ceramists

        Reviewed carefully by the Organizing Committee of the ceramics symposium, 18 ceramists from 14 countries have been selected to participate in the 2nd…

I am thinking of a joint Changchun Friends/Changchun Live discount card which, when shown at places that agree will give a discount - restaurants, bars, shops hotels etc.

Any views on this?

PRESS RELEASE

In line with our current re-structuring to be more market focused, The CCF Board is pleased to announce that after conferring with all stake-hiolders, Mr Jack Field (aka Mahatma Jack) has been appointed the Marketing Manager for CCF

His duties will be to report to no one but himself and to significantly increase membership in Changchun. Following a 1 month probationary time…

Following on from mahatma Jack's posting on the origins of words, this is for everyone to tell us where they are from and what the word means (And H/T to Ferney for coming up with the idea)

I will start off with England:

England’s name originally comes from the term “Land of the Angles”, which was translated to Engla Land in Old English. The Angles were an ancient Germanic (or Saxon) tribe, one of the few that occupied the region now known as England…

I have heard on the grapevine that as from tomorrow (Wednesday), the buffet at the Jinan Hotel will offering South East Asian cuisine - Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian, Vitnamese etc. If anyone goes there then it would be greatto hear what it is like

I gather that there are discounts for group bookings

THIS MIGHT BE ONE OF MY MORE THAN MANY USELESS BLOGS - BUT.

WHO ARE YOUR HEROES AND WHY?

Mine are:

Socrates (Greece) - the father of reason

Shankara (India) - the man who welded spirituality and reason together

May (China) - because she keeps my feet on the ground

I have many others but this is a starting point!

I walked past this place on Sunday and they told me it would open on the following day (yesterday) - anyone tried it yet?

It is just round the corner from Grandpa's just off Xikang Liu