Tag Archives: Language in Xinjiang

Learning Uyghur Blurb: Nuclear Weapons

With Opkehessip busy with some real life activities, Survival Uyghur is on hold and I’m left to inject to the site with some occasional Uyghur language goodness. Sadly, without the pedagogical and linguistic training that [...]

Madness? THIS! IS! XINJIANG!

The Olympics and all the related hooplah are now rapidly fading from memory into the history books, and the Islamic Holy Month of Ramadan comes to a close today. A quick browse through the archives [...]

Survival Uyghur: Lesson Five – Strength in Numbers

Survival Uyghur From The New Dominion Lesson Five: Strength in Numbers Introduction Salam! and welcome to “Survival Uyghur”, The New Dominion’s series on speaking practical Uyghur. Last week, we asked if something was (bar) or [...]

Xinjiang Roundup: 9 December to 15 December 2007

This week, Xinjiang saw a noble wild camel rescue operation, the unearthing of 2400 year-old wheat stalks, the temporary closure of Urumqi International Airport due to heavy fog, a flurry of end-of-the-year statistics, and more, [...]