Necessities

English Service for Emergency Telephone Numbers in Nanjing

These days we may hardly use the phone for its original purpose, but there is still one instance when we will depend on it...

Money & Paying for Stuff in Nanjing

Linguistically, here in the south, when referring to monetary amounts, Nanjingers will not verbally refer to “yuan” and “jiao”. Instead, they say “kuai” and...

Communication & Using the Internet in Nanjing

Hopefully, by the time most read this, the concept of VPN will not be news. Without it, there shall be no Google, Facebook, Instagram,...

Language, Translation & Use of English in Nanjing

Nanjingers speak Nanjing Dialect. While not altogether different from Mandarin in the way that perhaps Shanghainese is, the Nanjing Dialect is distinct but not...