Yep, Turnoi knows his stuff in relation to Chinese!

Absolutely, and not only in Mandaron, a good all rounder is he- if he's any good at cricket the English team selectors should scour his DNA to see if there's any British blood in him.

I'm forever impressed, if not a tad envious, with the talents and abilities that some of you posters have on this site. I only know about a couple of things and sadly teaching ain't one of them, having accidently fallen into the proffession after a heavy night out on real ale. Teaching is just something I have to reluctantly get through, allowing me to sample the other, sometimes dubious attractions of the orient.

On the bright side, whenever I'm told I can't teach for toffee, my shrug indicates "tell me somat I don't know already" and promptly forget the cruel obsevation.

Do you like real ale or frozen chemicals?