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A tip: don't get a VPN as soon as you get here. Don't even worry about it. Instead, explore the native Chinese alternatives to the websites that you think you need a VPN for. These include: www.youku.com Their version of youtube which often has the same stuff as youtube. www.weibo.com China's Twitter/Facebook hybrid. Not nearly as useless as Twitter, because you can say a lot more with 140 Chinese characters than you can with 140 letters. v.360.cn Pretty much any TV show in the world, quickly streamed and at your fingertips. mp3.baidu.com Stream just about any song in the world for free. If you need help, ask one of your students or a friend to help you figure these out. They will usually be overjoyed to help you understand the Chinese internet, which is becoming more and more integral to understanding Chinese culture and language. If you just want a VPN to torrent videogames, cut that poo poo out and go outside.
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LentThem posted:These are good websites, and I have a few to add: Thanks for this informative addition, these are all great sites as well. You got me to try Xiaomi again and it really does have everything.
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Posting to say that Xishuangbanna is awesome and worth visiting. Make sure you see the botanical gardens.
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Kikuchiyo posted:One other general question, as I've never been to the south of China before - do most people still speak pretty standard mandarin there? I've spent most of my time in China up north in Tianjin/Beijing, so I'm used to the way northerners speak with all the "arrrrrr" and that sort of thing. Especially down in Xishuangbanna - will it be easy to communicate in Beijing-style mandarin with people there? Being in a similar boat, I found that I could usually make myself understood when speaking putonghua, and would even get comments like "your Mandarin is better than mine" from the locals. EDIT: Reindeer is a great poster, don't bring irrelevant bullshit into this thread please. NaanViolence fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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goldboilermark posted:We have two big bathrooms, three bedrooms, a patio, a sunroom, a nice kitchen and it came with a big screen and it is 6,000/month for everything. Each roommate pays 2,000/month. Live in Wuhan. I had better than that for free with no roommates. 
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Can't blame you. I worked for a decent college, but I did not receive a Western salary. Too bad no amount of money can buy decent air in China.
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BadAstronaut posted:Oh you got to me, that much is clear. The way you quoted a post I made some months earlier when you made me lose it - so you made it your mission to troll and troll and troll until I lost it? Good job. This is awful. Please pay to change your name to BadPoster.
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Teleportation is taking opiates on long haul flights. There is no substitute. I scoff when my friends don't follow my advice and take sleeping pills instead. Had an injury or need some dental work done? Many dentists these days will give you a small amount of 10mg hydrocodone if you indicate that you've had pain issues in the past after a filling. Save these until your next flight. Make sure to save all the paperwork too, just in case you are asked for it. (I never have been) I stay up the night before a flight because I have no trouble sleeping on airplanes even when undrugged, and I arrive a little bit early and am usually the last to board. Recently I've had incredible luck with intercontinental flights giving me a whole row to myself. Wait an hour, maybe two, until boredom starts to set in. Pop two pills. Life is wonderful. Doze off. Wake up four hours later. Everything is excellent forever. Pop another pill. I am a skylord. Sleep more. Wake up four hours later, take one more pill, then sleep til landing. Deplaning and getting to my final destination is a breeze for me because of the warm, lovely afterglow permeating my being. Never not fly with opiates. If you can't get a scrip then kratom works too, but don't use it if you have a tendency to get airsick. You will definitely puke. NaanViolence fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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I've probably mentioned this in the thread before, but you will legitimately make more friends and learn more Chinese if you spend less time inside on the internet. This will in turn lead to more job opportunities (关系）. I'm sure you all have smart phones for your internet social needs anyway, I certainly did. Go outside, watch what's on TV and learn some new lingo (SO FASHION!), read a book, do some studying. Think of the possibilities!
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caberham posted:But yeah, but you should rather be the party pooping unsuave guy bringing up "the talk" than running along ambiguities. Don't be that rear end in a top hat leading the other person on for short term gratification. Caberham is correct. On the other hand, if you aren't willing to be that rear end in a top hat, someone else certainly will be. That's one of the saddest things I realized while living in China.
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I am considering a return to dear old China. I am a native English speaker also fluent in Chinese, and have two years of English teaching experience from kindergarten to postgrad in Wuhan. Any posters know of good jobs?
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goldboilermark posted:Ok again my company is hiring and I'm the person in charge of recruitment so if people are looking for work I'm happy to help or at least give you an interview. Tianjin is overflowing with jobs, I'm helping recruitment for another company here as well and I am offered part time to fulltime jobs on a monthly basis that I don't even go looking for. There is a shortage of qualified people here in Tianjin for work if people are interested in coming to China to work. Yep, I posted before reading the last few pages. Your situation is similar to mine when I was in Wuhan, and I still have contacts there, but I am thinking that I should probably expand my horizons beyond Wuhan. I am researching Tianjin now. How is the pollution? Wuhan was livable, but any worse may be a dealbreaker. I fell in love with Kunming when traveling through, but the salaries there are quite low, even for teachers.
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Grand Fromage posted:Not interacting with people would definitely improve things around here. Do you speak Chinese? Are you learning?
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Grand Fromage posted:No and yes. That's not the issue though. I've had Chinese speakers with me for the majority of this stuff and it doesn't help. I also moved to Korea speaking no Korean and had some of this sort of thing given the general love of inefficiency/nobody having a clue how to do their loving jobs around here but it was nowhere near as bad as in China. It is an unavoidable fact of living there, that's for sure. I did notice that once I was confident in my Chinese taking care of things myself was a lot faster and easier, though. GBM: Is your WeChat name HuoQiao Jobjed lol? I can't find you. My name is Longanimitas, add me and we will chat about employment. NaanViolence fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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goldboilermark posted:Yes, you can just simply make up work history, I've seen it done before. No one checks that. But unless you're going to photoshop your degree, like you said, you're kinda boned. If someone is graduating this year or last year and wants to come to China to teach English, they legally will not be able to get a Z-visa. Anyone that tells them otherwise is lying. What is your WeChat name? I don't have PMs. Also, when I first taught in 2010-11 in Wuhan I taught postgraduate students at one of the best public universities in the province and I had only graduated a few months earlier. Is this two-year requirement a new thing? I miss that job, it was fun taking students from "Why should we listen to you? We are older than you" to "Nobody ever showed me literature like you have. Thanks so much!"
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