元宵节 Yuanxiao jie. The Lantern Festival, marking the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations, falls on the 15th day
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Why do Chinese love the comic dialogue? 相声
Naturally, Xiangsheng (comic dialogue) performers traditionally have trained skills including telling, imitation, amusing and singing. Since Xiangsheng is an art
How Children Learn Chinese 儿童学汉语方法
How can the children learn mandarin Chinese faster? Are there any good approaches for young children to learn Chinese? Your
KISS me or ASK me is a question! 吻还是问?
The girl was so angry and replied to him: “You are so rude! You attempt to KISS a stranger on the street?”
Learn Chinese – How to Improve Your Pronunciation?
As an English speaker, it is not easy to learn Chinese. Instead of a phonetic language, mandarin Chinese is a
Words & Phrases 词汇与词组 – 阅读 read
阅读
Pinyin: yuèdú
Meaning:To read
Sentence: 阅读占去了我大部分的闲暇时间。Reading occupies most of my free time.
第七课 购物 Shopping
New Words
Chinese language vocabulary 汉语词汇 绕口令 (ràokǒulìng) tongue twister
绕口令 (ràokǒulìng) tongue twisterUsage: Sentences:
Sweet dumplings 汤圆
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Why eating Tang Yuan to celebrate the spring festival? In Chinese The pronunciation of 汤圆(tāng yuán) is similar to团圆(tuán yuán), which means reunio. Reunio is a very important concept for Chinese people. At the eve of spring festival every year, the members of the family, near and far, get together for celebration. Thus, eating Tang Yuan to celebrate the spring festival, a kind of Chinese food having reunio meaning, is a folk-custom of China.
American Boy, Clay Garner, Becomes China’s Justin
Clay Garner (or Gaoshan in Chinese) might be China’s answer to Justin Bieber. Through the powers of social media, the 18-year-old high school student has become famous among Chinese netizens after he posted homemade videos of himself singing Chinese pop songs on Youku. The videos have captured millions of views and the amateur musician has gained close to 30,000 Weibo followers (that number is still growing!). He has also appeared on a bunch of media, including Beijing TV and 56.com.