Category Archives: Announcements

[lastupdated] I am excited to announce that mandarinportal.com now has social media accounts. Its Facebook page is located at facebook.com/mandarinportal The Twitter page is located at twitter.com/mandarinportal In addition, there is a Diaspora account located at https://joindiaspora.com/u/mandarinportal

I am proud to say that Mandarinportal.com is now one of the hosts for the CC-CEDICT project. CC-CEDICT is one of the best open source Chinese to English dictionaries in the world, and very useful to use. You can download it in many different and convenient formats here. CC-CEDICT is somewhat hard to search initially, …

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I having finally finished transferring my server from  a shared host  in Ireland to a VPS in Singapore. This upgrade took many many hours, and at times made me want to pull my hair out, but was a great learning experience. Lots of technical things behind the scenes had to work perfectly for the transition …

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Since, last month, much progress has made on this site. I created signs.mandarinportal.com where interesting Chinese pictures are placed, and chinglish.mandarinportal.com where funny Chinglish pictures will be placed. In addition, mandarinportal.com/gctravelguide has been created, and in the coming weeks, much information about cities and places about Greater China will be placed there. travelblog.mandarinportal.com to be …

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I have created a new section of mandarinportal.com at chinglish.mandarinportal.com. This will be a place where funny and epic Chinglish pictures will be placed. I have a large collection of Chinglish pictures from my time in Greater China, and I encounter Chinglish nearly every day here. I think Chinglish things are very funny, and I …

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I have created a new section of mandarinportal.com at signs.mandarinportal.com. signs.mandarinportal.com will be a place where pictures of Chinese signs will be placed. I have a passion for taking pictures of signs. There are several reasons that I find signs so interesting. Signs in China will help you learn more and more about the unique Chinese …

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I have finally started blogging again on the main mandarinportal.com blog at blog.mandarinportal.com. You can visit it here. You can all look forward to quality blogging about Greater China and Chinese culture on blog.mandarinportal.com. Guest bloggers will appear in the future. So, enjoy and come back often for high quality posts about Greater China and Chinese …

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[lastupdated] After more than 2 months, I have finally finished blogging about my trip from the end of January 2014 to the end of February 2014 on my website where I travelled much of Greater China. I travelled to Qingdao, Shenzhen, Macau, Zhuhai, Hong Kong, and Wuhan. I have posted the URLs of my posts …

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My travel blog is finally back up. You can go to it here. After a somewhat painful period of transferring my travel blog to a new web host after having major problems with my first host, it is finally back up! I hope that in the future, it won’t be down again like this.

[lastupdated] Hi. I have just greatly updated my website. Most of the site will still redirect to portal.mandarinportal.com, but I will be putting a lot of new and exciting content on the site. I now have a new travel blog at travelblog.mandarinportal.com, and will be blogging on it soon because I am travelling within Greater …

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