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Talking with Beauties: Female Foreigners Speaking Korean
After featuring foreigners who spoke Chinese really fluently, I decided to look into foreigners who could speak Korean fluently. In my search I came across a KBS (Korean Broadcasting Show) called “미녀들의 수다.” “Global Talk Show” is the official English translation of the show according to KBS, but other English translations include: Talk with beauties, [...]
Continue reading...20 Most Powerful Chinese Celebrities – Part 1
Monday, March 30, 2009
Forbes did an article titled China’s 25 Most Powerful Celebrities where they compiled a list of the most powerful and influential Chinese celebrities for 2008. This list and rankings was based on a combination of factors like wealth, income, and the number of appearances in popular media (television, websites, newspapers, etc…). While the list is [...]
Continue reading...French Women Are Sexual Predators
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Carla Bruni, an ex-model and musician, who now is the wife of French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been quoted as saying “I am a tamer [of men], a cat, an Italian… I am faithful… to myself. I am monogamous from time to time but I prefer polygamy and polyandry [its female equivalent].” Granted she isn’t [...]
Continue reading...Korean Karaoke Videos Are for Everyone
Friday, March 20, 2009
Some of you may or may not be familiar with the folk musical comedy duo named Flight of the Conchords. They are originally from New Zealand and dub themselves “Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.” As you might be able to tell Flight of the Conchords aren’t your typical [...]
Continue reading...Becoham – David Beckham Inspired Chinese Condoms
Thursday, February 26, 2009
So the story supposedly goes like this. A Chinese condom manufacturing company was suffering lackluster sales in the marketplace. In effort to boost sales the company tried one last tactic by changing the brand name to “Becoham” which in Chinese sounds exactly like Beckham, as in David Beckham, the celebrity soccer player. Thanks to this [...]
Continue reading...Genki Japan: Fun Japanese Learning Songs
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
In my random searching for good or fun Japanese learning materials I came across a website which takes a very unique approach to Japanese learning. It’s called GenkiJapan.net (though for some reason when you get to the site it redirects to GenkiEnglish.net). “Genki” in Japanese means “energetic” or “fun” and “Japan” means Japan the country [...]
Continue reading...Top 10 Foreigners Who Speak Chinese Better than Me
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Considering my parent’s are immigrants from Taiwan and I’ve been studying Chinese since I was a kid you would think I would be pretty good at Mandarin. However, I suck. While it doesn’t take much to find someone who speaks better Mandarin Chinese than me here are 10 non-native Chinese speakers who rock the language. [...]
Continue reading...Panda, Nature’s Language Master and Teacher
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
For better or for worse , I’ve started to notice a trend in foreign language education. Apparently, pandas are the most qualified to teach children foreign languages. Of all of nature’s animals–monkeys, giraffes, sharks, owls, etc … — pandas are the one animal who’s language ability surpasses all the other animals and is the animal [...]
Continue reading...French Women Not Into “He’s Just Not That Into You”
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Liz Tuccillo is the co-author of the best selling American book HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU and past writer on the HBO show Sex and the City. After lackluster sales of her book in France, which was also one of the last countries to buy the rights to the book, she decided to investigate [...]
Continue reading...10 Spanish Popular Music Artists You Probably Don’t Know
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
When it comes to Spanish language and culture, I don’t know very much besides the things most Americans might associate (correctly or incorrectly) Spanish culture with like Taco Bell, Ricky Martin, Tapas, etc…When it comes to “Spanish” singers and music I can only come up with Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Shakira, Selena, and Jennifer Lopez. [...]
Continue reading...Welcome to DipToGo
DipToGo is a blog dedicated to exploring world culture and interesting language learning articles and tools. Find a text to speech website to help you brush up on your French, or watch videos of foreigners speaking Chinese really well. Our goal is to make the world just a little bit smaller :)
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