Consonant Aspirations

Okay, I apologise for the long delay, but finally(!), I present you with the solution to the problem set I posted in my last blog post, man...

The past few months, I've been learning a language here in Singapore that's been noted for its crazy mind-bending use of  tone san...

Recently, I joined the Facebook group " Heritage languages of Singapore ", and was immediately directed to an online petition by ...

I've been meaning to post this for a while now, since I saw this advertisement at my uncle's clinic here in Singapore. It's an...

As I mentioned in my last post, I've noticed a proliferation of Chinese signs in Nepal since my last visit here 2 years ago. I've ...

It's been 2 years, but I'm back in Nepal! It also means I'm back to updating the blog. This time I'm back at the height of...

One of the first things I learn to say in a foreign language is how to say, "I'm from..." or "I come from...", mainl...

In yesterday's post I talked about the correspondence between Hokkien 't' and Mandarin 'zh' (a retroflex sound produced...

This post is about three things: (1) the name of a very popular beverage that the vast majority of readers would be familiar with; (2) the ...

This is not a Nepal-related post, but just a little comment about this page from Johnson, featuring puns on the name of the Chinese currenc...