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Iwonder if people in the world concern about “Sense & Sensibility” becoming “Sense & Alkalinity” someday. Why is it possible? It is because of the existence of Mr.Close-enough and…
The Voice Entertainment Group, a Hong Kong record label, talent agency and publisher of pop music, has another production with a Cantonese Chinese name related to…
Quality is very important for language learning programs. If there are any significant mistakes found, then the credibility of their whole catalog would be called into…
If there’s one takeaway from this 5-minute article, it’s that you are made aware of Yabla Chinese. Yabla is similar to the slow stories on Mandarin Corner,…
This is a phrase I frequently use with my elders during Chinese New Year. It literally means, “I can understand, but I can’t speak,” — a…
You hate failure, I hate failure, we all hate failure. Or rather, what we hate is the FEELING that failure brings us. It makes you feel…
Have you ever heard of a “tiger mom”? It’s the term for a style of strict Asian parenting that goes so far that some people claim…
If your kid said that to you in a rage, that would be pretty hurtful, right? But if your spouse said that to you in a…
(There are plenty of resources available for learning Chinese on the internet, but for the purposes of this article, I am assuming that you are referring…
This is one topic that really tripped me up when I started learning Chinese — you often need to specify what state your verbs are in…
Have you ever heard the expression “chip off the old block”? It usually refers to a child who is LIKE his father, in looks or behavior.…
This article will introduce you the 7 most common ways for making self-introduction in Chinese. Let’s look at the following examples together, shall we? W?? xìng……
When parents call their kids “??????” (xi??o gu??), aka “little devil/ghost” they usually mean it in a teasing, loving way. But there’s another reason why parents…
The top part is ???, a radical that can indicate a structure or vastness, and the bottom part is ???, which means “forest” or “woods” and…
### What role do swallows play in Chinese culture? Did you know? In Chinese culture, swallows are a symbol of feminine grace and beauty. In fact,…
While ??? (lái) and ??? (qù) mean “to come and go” and refer to a kind of back-and-forth movement. So that’s that. Hope that was sufficiently…
The word for giant waves or billows is: ?????? (b??t??o). Here’s how it breaks down: ??? (B??): This character means “wave.” It’s made of the water…
Since as far back as I could remember, I’ve always wanted to learn Chinese Mandarin. As a kid speaking the Teochew dialect, I always felt left…
It’s commonly used in contexts relating to protection from the elements, such as sun or rain, but can also metaphorically refer to shielding from scrutiny or…
Dude, what does that even mean? “Overflowing in Chinese”? (Dunno, but it rhymes) And today we kick off another day of Chinese learning with the Chinese…
You can now pass a range of cells or a whole column to the PINYIN() / JYUTPING() fuctions, for example: PINYIN(A1:A20) this will convert cells A1 through…
If you got yesterday’s email, you may have noticed something a little different near the end. That’s right, in the next few weeks, you’ll be hearing…
Numbers are everywhere in our life, and our life is built on top of numbers. We start with our fingers when we want to count how…
Would you like to join me in a new, highly personalized Chinese coaching venture? I am looking for no more than 5 Chinese learners to personally…
It was March 1984. Someone had brought green tea for the nine of us. We all were genuinely excited. Not so much about the tea, rather…
How do you tell people you’re angry in Chinese? The word for “getting angry” in Chinese is ?????? (sh??ngqì; this is more commonly used) or ??????…
What do you want to have accomplished by the end (of your life)? If one of those things is “knowing Chinese,” you can start with learning…
?????????????????????????????????????????? T?? de píqì h??n bào zào, h??n róngyì sh??ng qì. His temper is very irritable, and he gets angry easily. And now you can talk…
Chinese characters are perhaps one of the oldest written forms still in use today. When the characters were first invented, they were logograms resembling the shapes…
Have you tried learning Mandarin from any other language besides English? While pinyin is the defacto phonetic system for foreigners to start speaking Mandarin fast, Hindi…