First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hi, man, it's long time since I writed the first composition on the Italki, almost one year. My english still haven't been improved. I am so regret. This is a new start. I 'd like use one sentence to force myself: 无志者常立志，有志者立长志。

Do you know the Chinese character“囧” The pronouncation of 囧 is jiong3.I think it has the same meaning same pronouncation as "窘jiong3",means embarassed. Many 1990s use a lot of these wierd characters. It's difficult for our 80s to understand their thinking, their dressing and even their language and characters. There are a lot of mouth weaponries between 80s and 90s.

what are the differences from"Chinese Mainland""China Mainland"and"Mainland China"? Thx

The Dragon Boat Festival In the traditional Chinese calendar, May 5th is the Dragon Boat Festival. More than 2000 years ago, there were 7 small countries on the China mailand, they fighted for people,land,wealthy things year after year. When Qin(State) win the Chu(State), Qu Yuan came from Chu(State) was so sad that he jumped into the Mieluo River. People tried to find his body by boats but failed, so they droped "Zongzi"—rice dumpling wrapped in reed leaves, to stopped the fish eat his body. After then, people always have dragon boat race and eat Zongzi on this day to commemorate Qu Yuan。 Quyuan is also one of the most famous poets in the Warring States period.

I answer a question for someone from Japan I didn't recognize he is from Japan, a little regret, I try to persuade myself, this is just a zone for people to learn languages, no other politic issue. Maybe he is a "good"Japanese. I still have some"not good feelings" on Japanese. alas

I'd like to introduce this Chinese input method(program) I'd like to intruduce this Chinese input method program. It's name is "搜狗拼音输入法", it can help you input Chinese quickly, for example,when you type in"中国人民共和国", you can just type in"zhrmghg“. It can also be a remainder of your wrong expressions because it just shows the correct expressions only. I can email it to you if you can't find it. Hope it will helpful.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself I am Renee Liu.I live in China mainland,I worked in Shanghai and live in Hefei which is 3.5 hours away from Shanghai by train.I go back to my home every weekend.It may be short to 2 hours after the World Expo.That's a good news for me. I am office manager of Red Dot China,I take care of evrything in the Red Dot China office such as HR,sales support,import&export,sales support,office manage etc.When I work with my workmates in the US,we can't communicate very well because of my poor English,so I want improve my English Asap. And also,when I was in university,my major is Chinese Language and Literature,I 'd like to help someone who want to learn Chinese.