Forums > Living in Kunming > Learning Chinese with a private tutor These are the qualifications I would seek from a Chinese teacher for 1-1 learning:
1 - Mandarin - Level 1B or 1A -
2 - Graduate from University with a major of Teaching Chinese As a Foreign Language or IPA Certificate.
3 - 1 year experience teaching at any of the Chinese Training Schools.
4 - English Proficiency: At least 2 of the below listed items:
IELTS = 6.5+
TOEFL = 85+
PETS5 = 85/4
CET6 = 600+
TEM8 = If they are English majors
Forums > Living in Kunming > Should you study Chinese? Learning a new language is useful and it is always good to continue learning new things. This depends on what price a person is willing to pay to learn chinese. Not only the cost ($) of paying the teacher but also the time involved in learning, especially if you are older.
I think most people would agree that learning any other language is much easier then learning chinese.
I have lived in China for more than 11 years and have travelled extensively and interact with locals on a daily basis. My chinese is limited to what I learn from day to day and I have never formally learned in a classroom setting. I have no interest in learning to read chinese as this is too time consuming and I will have to give up the things (Teaching + Travel) I enjoy doing now to learn to read.
It all depends on the needs or choice of each individual. Many people here have already stated that they live comfortably without learning chinese.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Passport Visa Pages: How Many? Been asking the same question for an awful long time. The answer once agian is go put more pages in your passport. Same answer you got on the other 3 threads.
1 - www.gokunming.com/en/forums/thread/9064/getting_new_us_passport = 7 months ago
2 - www.gokunming.com/[...] = 3 months ago
3 - www.gokunming.com/[...] = 1 month ago
Forums > Living in Kunming > Oil Pipelines There are plenty of places that flood annualy because of heavy rains. This water can be piped to other dry regions for irrigation while preventing the annual floods.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者If ofo can throw away thousands of bikes and leave them destroyed on many city streets across China, then it must be getting (Stealing) money from somewhere.
It is impossible to run an UNsustainable business model such as this across so many cities.
Even the manufacturer of the ofo bikes should be happy to get those bikes back and repair them and then sell them back to ofo.
These bikes are littering the city streets and the city should FINE ofo for littering.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者society.yunnan.cn/html/2017-04/05/content_4780009.htm
You will not see a graveyard of the other bikes - only the yellow ofo bikes.
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
发布者Nothing has changed in hundreds of years - World's biggest drug dealers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/14066.html
Who can forget the most important mottoes of the US govt - Deny Everything - Admit Nothing or I Don't Recall.
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
发布者Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者The only bikes I see being abused are the yellow ofo bikes because of the present system in place. It will not last much longer.