http://www.houseofbabel.info An Exploration of Chinese, Japanese and English Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:53:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you start working, many people have to deal with business trips. In a lot of the cases, most of your time was spent on the traffic, such as driving, taking the train or getting on the plain. After you arrive at the place, you are already exhausted. If you ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/video-conference/ <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4; mso-font-alt:"MS Mincho"; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;} @font-face {font-family:Century; panose-1:2 4 6 4 5 5 5 2 3 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/curiosity/ Halloween is coming. For every American kid, I think, this is the most exciting time for them. They grew up in such environment. Normally when you are at a foreign country, the best thing to do is that when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Otherwise you will feel ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/halloween-costumes/ After I got pregnant, sometime I found that I spoke incoherently. M: Hi, honey, can you get a bull from the chicken for me? H: We have neither bull nor chicken around here. It is bowl, and from the kitchen? M: Yeah, get me the bowl from the chicken or kitchen, whatever, ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/spoke-incoherently/ When you have your own business, you have to have your own system, not just using the free email in the world. Free mail, of course, is good. It is convenient for individual person communicating with the friends and family. But you know, all the free mail have security problem. ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/email-marketing/ Some day we were watching Japanese soccer team playing games. Their name was shown in English. And the First name was shown with initial. So 英寿中田(Hidetoshi Nakata) becomes H. Nakata. Honey had some wield sense for languages. He just read that as H. Nakatta, in Japanese エッチ　なかった｡In Wikipedia, “Ecchi (or ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/%ef%bc%9f/ Sometime we want to do something, but we do not know where to get the relative information. If you are hesitating about something now, Online Tickets would be your perfect entertainment guider. In China, after Yao Ming starts playing basketball in NBA, many people pay attention to basketball ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/online-tickets/ I was watching the TV “Two and a half men”. The first time when I saw it, I loved it, because Charlie’s words are always so funny and full of humor and perfect irony. On the other hand, because it is so idiomatic, sometime it is difficult for me to ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/10/take-care-of-your-mother/ I think zennioptical.com should go to China and save several hundred million people’s eyes. When I became shortsightedness when I was in elementary school, my mom just brought me to some roadside stall and picked one pair of glassed for me. After some years, such situation did not change so ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/07/glasses/ For foreign languages students, showing on TV, standing near to the great person, doing simultaneous interpretation is their dream. Such case is much easier than for the middle important people. Normally you can predict what they will say and the same kind of sentences were repeated for thousands of times. In ... http://www.houseofbabel.info/2008/07/simultaneous-interpretation/