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Forums > Living in Kunming > I love Kunming - Except . . .

A confusion of past and present, which especially affects those who get their ideas of someplace else before they come to it and then insist on the reality of those ideas in the face of what's in their face when they get there. Manipulative commercial and nationalist opportunists benefit from the satisfaction of tourists from Shanghai with the amusement park that is Lijiang, or with water fights held daily in Jinghong.

Smoke and mirrors.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Learning Chinese with a private tutor

I agree with Tiger, and also partially with Parisian guy - at lower levels it's especially important for the teacher to know something about the student's language, not because the teacher should be translating all the time, but because knowing something of the language helps the teacher understand the particular problems of students with a particular mother tongue, and so can expect them and plan lessons to deal with them. In China it seems that teachers thoroughly understand the general difficulty presented by Indo-European grammars but overcompensate, especially at higher levels, when students need more verbal practice, etc., as well as more reading, which is where advanced vocabulary can usually be learned with a dictionary rather than from a teacher. Hence the need for native foreign-language instructors - who, of course, still need to know their own grammar and how to teach it at the higher level necessary for good, more advanced written work, which is where all the grammatical & construction errors really pop out.
Anyway, I think that translation definitely does have a place in language teaching, but it needs to be very carefully restricted to situations in which it does not become a substitute for getting beyond it. And all this - especially the 'getting beyond it' - happens easier with a tutor than in a classroom.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Idea about getting Taxi services better

Not sure that 10rmb tips are the way to go - better to push for higher taxi fares all around.
On possible cabbie article - anybody have any idea what cabbies earn here? Strikes me that they actually EARN their incomes - not everybody does.

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Note practical functional adaptation to forest regrowth and re-use of land for agriculture practiced by slash-&-burn (swidden) mountain groups before their territories were restricted, which required re-use of same land in much shorter periods - and they knew, through their cultural history, that this wouldn't work, and said so - but of course the explosion of the human population made continuation of these traditional long-period of regrowth practices impossible. Now they are blamed for being ignorant and ruining mountain slopes (in China, Thailand, many places).
Fact is, there are simply too many people.

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The Curmudgeon says: Maybe the Western dam experts criticisms of just about every dam in Asia are right.
In vis-a-vis arguments concerning fossil-based, nuclear and hydroelectric sources of energy, perhaps the shining truth behind them all is simply that this particular species of animal consumes too much damn energy for the good of the planet, including that of our particular species. Perhaps solar, tidal, etc. development will prove me wrong. In the meantime, walk, get a bicycle or ride the bus. Healthier and less socially divisive too.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.