Everyday Chinese: Lesson 7 Making a Phone Call
Everyday Chinese is the online Chinese course which designed for language learners who would like to acquire practical communication skills. Today we will learn how to make a phone call.
Top 10 landmarks in China:Shanghai World Financial Center
For a good overview of the city, there is no better spot than the top of Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong. The total investment exceeded US$1 billion. With 101 floors above ground level and soaring to a height of 492 meters, it is currently the world's fourth tallest building. It also offers multiple services, including travel, stores, hotels and conference rooms.
Bite of China II – Realm of Secrets
In the capital of China one can find Turkey Kebap, Spanish Paella or French Foie Gras with original taste and flavor. People in New York(纽约Niǔyuē) City are able to buy Rouga Mo (or literally Marinated Meat in Baked Bun, a Chinese hamburger popular in north Shaanxi Province) at streets of Manhattan, and in Melbourne can have a try of Peking Roast Duck. The travel of human and foods bring those delicacies of each country even more famous. However, less popular foods unavoidably exist. Some of them hidden in China’s rivers, deserts, mountains or other places are also delicious, that’s the realm of secrets we are looking for.
Everyday Chinese: Lesson 6 Making an Appointment
Everyday Chinese is the online Chinese course which designed for language learners who would like to acquire practical communication skills. Today we will learn how to make an appiontment.
Overview of Education in China中国教育概况
China Education(教育jiàoyù) is the largest education system in the world. On June 2013, there were 9.12 million students taking the China's National Higher Education Entrance Examination (Gao Kao)(高考gāokǎo). Investment in education accounts for about 4% of total GDP in China. In 1986, the Chinese government passed a compulsory education(义务教育yìwù jiàoyù) law, making nine years of education mandatory for all Chinese children. Today, the Ministry of Education estimates that 99.7 percent of the population area of the country has achieved universal nine-year basic education.中国教育是世界上最大的教育系统。2013年6月,在中国有912万学生参加了全国高等教育入学考试(高考)。教育投资约占国内生产总值的4%。1986年,中国政府通过了《义务教育法》,对所有中国学生强制实行九年教育。今天,国家教育部估计,中国99.7%的人口区域已经实现广泛的九年基础教育。
International students(国际学生guójì xuéshēng) have enrolled in over 660 higher education institutions in China. China has a long history providing education to international students studying in high schools and universities in China. Over the past few years, the number of international students who study abroad in China has significantly increased every year.中国已有超过660家高等教育机构有国际学生注册进入。在为国际学生提供在华高中和大学教育这方面,中国已有很长的历史。过去的几年中,在华留学的国际学生数每年都有显著增加。
Bite of China II – Encounters
A lot of dishes are fissile(capable of undergoing nuclear fission) wonders produced by kinds of food materials' combination and encounters. Human activities facilitate food's meeting, while the separation and reunion of food mobilize(if you mobilize support or mobilize people to do something, you succeed in encouraging people to take action, especially political action. If people mobilize, they prepare to take action) human’s meeting and parting. This is summarized to "destiny" by people.
Everyday Chinese: Lesson 5 Asking for Help
Everyday Chinese is the online Chinese course which designed for language learners who would like to acquire practical communication skills. Today we will learn how to ask for help.
Top 10 landmarks in China:Xi’an City Wall in Xi’an
The existing wall was built between 1374 and 1378, making it over 600 years old. It is 12 meters high, 18 meters wide at the base and 15 meters wide at the top. It has four gates: Changle Gate in the east, Anding Gate in the west, Yongning Gate in the south and Anyuan Gate in the north. Xi'an's City Wall is one of the oldest and best preserved city walls in China and one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world.
About Bite of China II – Daily Domestics, unforgettable home-cooked foods
The Home may be the warm harbor for every one, no matter how far one can reach it is always the starting point and destination in one’s own life. People living in the same house make a fire and cook—they are bound together by love and foods. Simple pots and pans reflect the Chinese lifestyles, whilst(whilst means the same as the conjunction while) daily domestics are just as different tastes of lives.
Everyday Chinese: Lesson 4 Saying Goodbye
Everyday Chinese is the online Chinese course which designed for language learners who would like to acquire practical communication skills. Today we will learn how to say goodbye.