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Not Learning Cantonese in Hong Kong

Not Learning Cantonese in Hong Kong

Learning Uyghur, Japanese, Korean, and anything else interesting instead. Daydreaming of foreign adventures and interesting people while stuck in front of a Bloomberg terminal in an obscenely-shaped concrete tower.

See my pinboard.in bookmarks

Lists of language schools in Hong Kong:

  • Learn Russian in Hong Kong
  • Learn Japanese in Hong Kong
  • Learn Korean in Hong Kong

If you found me through a Google search for "learning Cantonese in Hong Kong", and actually clicked through, you're probably hopeless in more ways than one. Try this blog's antithesis: Learning Cantonese.


Currently Reading


  • Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

  • Gary Shteyngart, The Russian Debutante's Handbook

  • 张承志 (Zhang Chengzhi), 鲜花的废墟: 安达卢斯纪行 (Ruins and Fresh Flowers: Travels in Andalucía)

Learn ۇيغۇر تىل

  • [Books/ZH] Xinjiang Bookweb
  • [Ling/EN] UighurLanguage.com
  • [Ling/EN] Uyghur Dictionary
  • [Ling/UG+ZH] Uyghur Vocab. Web
  • [Ling/JP] JP-UG Dict
  • [Info/UG] Uyghur Comp. Info. Soc.
  • [Info/UG] Uyghur, Wake Up!

Learn 한국어

  • [Fin/KR] Korea Stock Ex. Glossary
  • [Ling/JP] OCN Machine Translation
  • [Ling/KR] Naver Online Dict
  • [Blog/EN+KR] 21 세기의 선비
  • [Blog/EN+KR] Let's Learn Korean
  • [Blog/EN+KR] Korean Language Notes
  • [Blog/EN+KR] Hunjangûi karûch'im

Learn 日本語

  • [Ling/JP] Intro. to Yakuza Japanese
  • [Fin/JP] Tokyo Stock Ex. Glossary
  • [Fin/EN+JP] Dict. of Fin/Sec Mkts

Linguistics Blogs

  • [EN] Amritas
  • [MY] bahasa dunia
  • [ZH] Linguistics Paradise
  • [EN] LanguageHat

Xinjiang Blogs

  • [ZH] Green Flag
  • [ZH] Wang Lixiong's blog
  • [EN] DavidWong.com
  • [EN] The Opposite End of China
  • [EN/JP] Psymeg and Chooch
  • [EN] Urumqi, Yili, XJ, and HK
  • [EN] Bonwon in Urumqi
  • [EN] Tiffany in Never-Never Land
  • [EN] Musing Under the Tenement Palm
  • [EN] Kashgar Kid

Malaysian Blogs

  • [MY] Bahasa Malaysia, Bangsa Malaysia
  • [EN] Pra.kata
  • [MY] kakibuku

Hongkong Blogs

  • [EN] A Year in Hong Kong
  • [EN] AIESEC HK Interns
  • [EN] Walk the Talk
  • [EN+ZH] Civic Express
  • [ZH] 知日部屋
  • [ZH] Citizen Reporter
  • [ZH] Inmedia.hk

General Blogs

  • [EN] The Long and Winding Road
  • [SP] diario de un savonarola
  • [EN] Half Sigma
  • [EN] Gene Expression
  • [EN/SP/ZH/RU] Taschenrechner
  • [EN] Foreign Dispatches
  • [EN] Far Outliers
  • [EN] Muninn
  • [EN] Walahi (The Maltese Experience)
  • [EN/ZH] The Levitator

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