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Freelancer’s Delight: Top 10 Questions You’ll Be Asked in China, and How to Respond in Mandarin

Freelance writing is by far the most variable, infuriating, and futile work I’ve done in my life…so far. Have you seen my resume of dead-end jobs? It’s pretty impressive. Barback, barista, bartender, busboy, carpenter’s apprentice, delivery driver, doorman, dishwasher, entertainer, ESL teacher, file clerk, food runner, garde manger, general construction laborer, general manager of small […]

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Mandarin Made Easy with Ebooks Vook

Mandarin Made Easy with Ebooks Vook. Interesting (and positive) review of Christian Adams’ The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin.

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The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin/Talking Taiwan Interview

Author Christian Adams sits down with “Talking Taiwan” host Rick Monday for a ten-minute discussion about Christian’s first book published by The International Scholar, The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin: An Abridged Corpus of Axioms, Vocabulary and Purported Meanings, available in ebook format on Amazon Kindle (ASIN: B00AAJS2JC) and Vook (ISBN:9780393318838)

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The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin: An Abridged Corpus of Axioms, Vocabulary and Purported Meanings

The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin: An Abridged Corpus of Axioms, Vocabulary and Purported Meanings. eBOOK NOW AVAILABLE AT VOOK http://store.vook.com 

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The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin is the Ninth Best Selling eBook on Amazon!

Psych. Here’s what’s true about the post heading. The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin is in fact the ninth best-selling Kindle ebook in the Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Reference > Foreign Language > Instruction > Chinese category. Top 100 Paid This Is China: The First 5,000 Years (This World of Ours) […]

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The Lazy Bastard Has Finally Decided to Arrive

You’ve read the excerpts. You’ve heard the hype. You’ve seen the stupid Word of the Week widget in the sidebar for what, four months now? And let’s be honest, it hasn’t been a word a week; it’s been more like a word a month. We said the book was coming. We said it was going […]

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Axioms of Ease and the Ten Sacred Phrases

Axioms of Ease and the Ten Sacred Phrases. The second excerpt from The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin.

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Introduction: Embracing Your Inner Lazy Bastard « Black Sunshine Media

The first excerpt from The Lazy Bastard Guide to Mandarin Introduction: Embracing Your Inner Lazy Bastard « Black Sunshine Media.

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Never Mind the BBC, Here’s the Lazy Bastard

The Third of Eight Ways China is Changing Your World, So Says the BBC “China has long fascinated the West, but its emergence as an economic power has seen a new burgeoning of interest in its culture and language. Thirty years ago, only its inscrutable leaders were recognized in the West. Now people like actress […]