Introduction to Asian Cultures
Friday, September 12th, 2008
This site has lots of forums for discussing all kinds of issues.
For those who are interested in learning about asian cultures, we recommend a visit to this great site. It’s a blend of blogs, forums, free stuff like smileys for your chatting activities and more of these annoying ingredientes of so many internet sites. So, you might wonder, why do dedicate a review to this site? The answer is quiet easy: it has a huge forum with a total of about 3 Million posts according to the owners, besides the blogs are wirtten by people from Asia or people pretty much interested in asian cultures such as chinese, japanese, korean, vietnamese, hmong, malaysian, indonesian, indian, cambodian, thai, filipino, lao, mongolian or singaporean.
For ourselves it was a little bit strange to read about a special singaporean culture, we thought that was the same as chinese, but we found interesting details about the differences between these two cultures. And we are sure that we are not the only ones who have no clue about what hmong culture is. Well, if you are interested in finding out, go to this site and discover Asia and asian people.
On the overall evaluation, we give this site a four stars out of 5 because of the annoying free smileys ads integrated into almost all of their pages. But that’s the only flaw we could find.
We entered the chinese culture section and quickly found some introduction into the chinese language, with explanations of the signs and audio files with the pronounciation of many chinese words. This is a great feature for language students for any language but especially welcome for a languaga such as chinese which consists only of very short words and since the repertoire of these short words is not big enough to express all possible concepts, chinese language makes use of the different possibilities for pronouncing the same word, changing the meaning with only pronouncing it differently. As far as we know, they have about 5 different ways of pronounciation for each word, with 5 sometimes very different meanings. We will look deeper into this site’s pages and we hope to find all the answers we need. We are sure they offer great guidance for beginning chinese language students.
