In EN:

(1) business (2) globalization (3) social capital (4) social enterprise (5) run errands (6) logistics (7) air courier (8) porridge (9) panda bear (10) koala bear (11) penguin (12) operating system (12) software (13) open source (14) free software (15) free food (bad) (16) free money (bad) (17) jobs (18) career (19) integration (19) economics (20) manager (21) leader (21) democracy (22) socialism (23) capitalism

In ZH (simp):

(1)企业(2)全球化(3)社会资本(4)社会企业(5)跑差事(6)后勤学(7)空气传讯者(8)粥(9)熊猫(10)树袋熊(11)企鹅(12)操 作系统(12)软件(13)开放来源(14)免费软件(15)自由食物(坏) (16)自由兑换货币(坏) (17)工作(18)事业(19)综合化(19)经济(20)经理(21)领导(21)民主(22)社会主义(23)资本主义

In ZH (trad):

(1)企业(2)全球化(3)社會資本(4)社會企業(5)跑差事(6)後勤學(7)空氣傳訊者(8)粥(9)熊猫(10)树袋熊(11)企鵝(12)操 作系統(12)軟件(13)开放来源(14)免费软件(15)自由食物(壞) (16)自由兑换货币(壞) (17)工作(18)事業(19)綜合化(19)經濟(20)經理(21)領導(21)民主(22)社會主義(23)資本主義

If you want to learn Chinese, you have to start with the basics.

It used to be that only foreigners learning Chinese had to learn romanization (which is what pinyin is) but after the CCP came to power, everyone, including native Chinese like myself (the Panda speaking here) had to do so.

So I am going to teach you what I know, in the hopes that when we get advanced I can learn better from what I am teaching. A wise teacher learns from her/his students.

First rule: a o e i u u(umblar) (hereafter “:u”).

A is pronounced AH

E is pronounced UH

I is pronounced EE

U is pronounced OOH

:U is pronounced YEW-ee (so fast it’s one sound)

Practice these for a bit, and then continue. Take five minutes to practice.

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Continue:

b p m f d t n l j q x zh ch sh g k h w y r and a few others I can’t summon right now…

b = BUH

p = PUH

m = MUH

F sounds like the common F-start profanity, except you don’t make the /K/ sound: FUH

D = DUH

T = TUH

N = NUH

L = LUH

ZH = Jee-er (so fast it is one sound)

CH = Chee-er (same as right above)

SH = Shee-er (same as above)

G = GUH (sounds like girl but don’t curl the tongue)

K = KUH

H = HUH

W = Wo-UH (same rule as others ending in er, but ending in UH instead)

Y = YEE

R = REE-er (so fast it’s one sound)

After I remember what has pinyin start letters have escaped me, and corral them and get them to march back to this blog with me with the watery bamboo soup I will have for dinner tonight, I will update this post and include them!

For now, just practice what you have learned, so by the next lesson (I don’t even know when…) you will be ready to learn basic grammar!

Take several weeks, to practice, that is, if it takes me several weeks to resume this post tag (Chinese).

Search for “Chinese” or “LangLesson” to continue your study next time.

Word of the day: Anarchy

Anarchy is a state of no government.

Under anarchy, you are free to do and say and think what you will. But you are not free to infringe upon the rights of others to do, say, and think what they will, and you are not free to take away others’ rights.

Truly communist societies are anarchist. That is why there are no communist governments in existence, as the term communist government is an oxymoron and any government that claims to be communist cannot be trusted. Communist parties do exist, but they are not the only parties that can run a socialist government. Others, such as democratic socialist parties can as well.

Classless society is a concept that is preloaded with anarchy.

Compare: Democracy

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Word of the day: Democracy

A democracy is a style of government or governance that arises out of a social contract that is provided by the consent of the governed.

It is said that democracy’s mother city is Athens, where Solon first created the world’s earliest democratic societies.

A famous democracy is the United States of America. Another is Classical Greece, as well as Republican Rome.

Political theorists tend to believe that democracy is the ultimate form of government, before people choose anarchy, and all governments currently existing will eventually become democracies.

In the Americas, Hiawatha originally set down a system parallel to democracy. It was not a full democracy, however, but the comparison is strikingly similar.

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FreeDocs word of the day: Chaos

Chaos is the state of entropy, meaning no order exists. There are theories to the nature of order, and clever observers have discovered that within chaos, there is weird symmetry. This, however, is beyond the dictates and goals of this post; we’re just here to discuss words. So for the record: Chaos == disorder.

Now, if you want to understand more about chaos, there’s plenty of websites out there that discuss this subject. You just have to avoid the newspapers and the know-it-alls who proclaim one and only one definition of Chaos and put down all others as “clearly inferior”.

Of course, such people will always exist, and it is now the imperative (or one of the minor imperatives) of FreeDocs Lit to run these evildoers out of business by getting them to show their true colors.

More information: Chaos on Wikipedia. Chaos on TheFreeDictionary. Chaos on Hyperdictionary.

FreeDocs word of the day: Domination

Domination means “to take over by means of force, with or without consideration of the other parties’ needs or intentions.” Domination can refer to world domination, political domination, certain methods used by totalitarian regimes, or revolution.

Domination is a term that typically comes with a negative, though not necessarily bad, connotation, and is considered a military term in some circles.

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