Chinese Hanzi Mnemonics #2: 一二三/123

一 yī: 1
二 èr: 2
三 sān: 3

Well, this one is pretty obvious :), think of Latin numerals rotated 90° and you are all set!

Chinese Hanzi Mnemonics #1: 买/Mǎi => buy

Thanks to HTC who offered me some Chinese classes 2 years ago, I have decided to continue learning it even though my department closed down.

Since I have always been interested by Chinese culture (especially their literature classics), I am quite dedicated to it now and have even taken the HSK2 test 2 weeks ago (a kind of TOEIC).

While learning Hanzi (Chinese ideograms) is very difficult, I have come up with some Mnemonics to help myself remember them better.

Since my Mandarin teacher find them funny, I decided to share them with you. Please be aware that I am only learning simplified hanzi and not traditional ones. Please also don't be shocked if I am not always using the Hanzi keys in the right way, sometimes it just works better for me another way. (Native/Advanced Chinese speakers will understand what I mean).

So here is my first one:

This is the Hanzi 买 (pronounce Mǎi) that means "buy/purchase" ("acheter" en français).
When I see this hanzi, I see a hand holding a chicken and since buying chicken to prepare chicken curry is one of my most frequent purchases, you can imagine how holding a chicken means "buy" :D

Recruiting via Facebook: The Work4 business case

Hereafter is a small business case I recently did, hope you find it interesting.

Flappy Bird inspired game: Flappy Prez

Hi everyone,
Since my HTC subsidy closed down at the end of year 2013, I am now looking for a job in Product Management in Mobile/Telecom/Web sectors.
While applying to different jobs, I am going back to coding a bit and I have recently published on iTunes a Flappy Bird replica based on our beloved French president.
You can have a try here :)

A small interview promoting the HEC MBA ;)

Interview HEC

Gamification Test #4

Another review in l'Express of gamified applications applied to language learning.
Busuu is particularly good in motivating user to practice and learn new languages.

Pierre-Antoine Antonini

A Gamification presentation

Here is a link to an interesting presentation on the Gamification concept provided by Digiworks.
Again it is in French ;)

Pierre-Antoine Antonini

Gamification Test #3

Here is again a new test on a "gamification" application. This time this is a productivity app called "Epic Win" that changes your task list and daily life in quests to accomplish to collect XP and loot, very efficient, at least for me. If you can read french, please have a look on l'Express.

Pierre-Antoine Antonini

Gamification Test #2

Here is a recent test I made for L'express on the mobile application Runkeeper.
The gist: keep track of your performance and improve your health.
Which app do you use to stay fit?

Gamification test#1

As I mentioned in my previous post (before the summer holidays!), gamification is a passionating process of increasing user involvement.

To better understand how it works, I am now testing several apps, writing a brief test report and I will share them with you.

Here is my first one: "Zombies, run!" that you can find on "l'express" (a french news magazine) website (it is in French!)