Today I saw Karate Kid (2010), it was awesome! I was hypnotized during all the movie. Don’t worry, I won’t say spoilers. =)

Check out the trailer:

It’s great to be able to understand some of the things they say in Chinese and have subtitles, and it’s also great to see an American movie with a strong Chinese background, now I don’t feel like the only geek that is interested about Chinese language and culture. Now even my girlfriend is interested in oriental medicine!

Mulan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kung Fu Panda… and now Karate Kid. What will be Hollywood’s next Chinese backgrounded movie? I just want to see this movie again =)

I found out this Chinese proverb I'd like to share with you; it goes like this:
成功离不开奋斗和自信心。
cheng2gong1   li2bu4kai1     fen4dou4   he2       zi4xin4xin1

lit. means "Success can't blossom without fight and self-confidence".
So, in order to succeed in your life, you need to believe in yourself and always keep fighting.

I like Chinese proverbs, because with so little words they say so much. They are always brief and meaningfull.

Have a nice weekend!
Adrian.

我的这个日记写了三个月了。我很高兴，因为我可以写关于我都想要的。我可以写关于一些书﹑音乐﹑新闻﹑故事﹑观点﹑外语（意大利语，英语和当然还有中文）等等。这次，我要写关于我的中国的朋友。

全：你是我的第一个中国朋友。你教了我很多东西。我祝你明年，大学毕业的时候可以在北京找到一个很好的工作。

易龙：你总帮我检查我的汉字写和语法。祝你好运还有你的财务会计哈哈。

安呢：小墨西哥同学，我非常喜欢你。你是一个模仿人哈哈，但是真遗憾是我离你很远，因为我们可能成为真正的朋友。

我还有别的朋友要写，但是我尤其要写这些朋友。

最后，我想感谢我的中国朋友为帮我和我的汉语，最近我的普通话很有进步。谢谢你们！我希望咱们在中国可以见面。

今天感觉非常好啊！ =D

I've been practicing my Chinese on the internet lately,  now that I have significantly more free time since I finished my semester at the university, and I found these great tools for all Zhongwen students. You might find them useful as well, so here they are:
最近我检查了我的中文了，因为我在大学学完我的学棋和最近不太忙。我对学中文非常用这些工具。我觉得这些工具很有用的。可能这些也可以帮你。

1. Nciku.com. The best Chinese-English dictionary on the web, you can even write characters with your mouse or touchpad to search for those nasty characters you don't know.
2. Livemocha.com. This place is great for practicing your Chinese. It's a social network for learning languages, and you can practice your Chinese with native speakers.
3. China Central TV. Thanks to my friend Quan for this page, it has really helped me understand better spoken Chinese. This TV station has some interesting videos for learning Chinese. Highly recommendable, here you can improve your comprehensive listening, while learning new words and expressions, by reviewing dialogs of common situations part by part.
4. "Remembering the Hanzi", by Heisig and Richardson. If you are one of those common students that can't remember the characters and those you learn you always forget in no time, this book helps you remember all those characters, using mnemonics to study the radicals.
5. Trainchinese.com. This page helps you learn new words through flashcards; great for enhancing your vocabulary.
6. Popupchinese.com. This webpage has tons of excersices for HSK tests.
7. melnyk.com. If you're looking for podcasts to improve your pronuntiation, Serge Melnyk has a very complete page of theme based podcasts.
   

You're always welcome to add another tool you find useful. See ya!

Hace poco fui a comer comida tradicional china con mis amigos de la clase de chino. ¡Estuvo genial! Y como casi no me gusta comer...

Y luego me atraparon in fraganti comiendo arroz.
=)

Debo decir que la comida china es muy diferente a lo que la gente aquí piensa. A muchas personas no les gusta la "comida china" porque es muy grasosa. ¡Pues esa no es comida china! Esa es comida de chinatown.

Cada vez la cultura china me sorprende más y más. Tengo que conocer China algún día, mientras tanto, seguiré estudiando chino.

Mi maestra de chino me regaló un libro de cuentos para niños, pero todavía hay muchas cosas que no puedo entender, damn, estudias y estudias chino y solo te das cuenta que todavía te falta mucho por aprender.