的哥 (dīgē) male taxi driver Usage: Sentences: 北京的的哥的姐们都很热情,他们常常会和乘客聊天,给乘客们讲一讲北京城。
Tag: in mandarin
Vocabulary of Professions
Words of profession can be used in many situation.Let’s start to learn the vocabulary for common professions in Mandarin Chinese.
£8,000 each on shopping in Chinese Golden Week
Chinese signs, Mandarin-speaking shop assistants and extra deliveries of sought-after designer goods — in especially small sizes — are all
The Doctor and the Monkey
Eeps – bad medicine! In this story, the mischievous Monkey – always a trickster figure in Chinese stories – pulls
Our 100th Post! Plus some new beginner jokes
Hey hey! This site has made it through two years online and 100 posts! That makes an average of 50
A Probe into the Work-Life Balance of Chinese policewoman
Chinese Title: 女警察工作与生活平衡问题探讨 Gonna lay it on a bit thick today with something nice and serious. This is an abstract
After I Got My New Years’ money
Chinese Title: 拿到压岁钱以后 For those of you new to Chinese culture, one thing a Chinese child most looks forward to
The Two lazybones
This is probably the longest text I’ve ever posted, but this is upper-beginner to mid-intermediate reading. I could probably toss
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.
To Improve Kids’ Chinese, Parents Head to Asia
迈克尔-罗默(Michael Roemer)是一位律师,2010年他请了一年的假,把加利福尼亚州奥林达(Orinda)的房子租出去,然后带着妻子和孩子来到了中国西部城市成都。之前他从来没有在国外生活过。Michael Roemer had never lived abroad before he took a one-year leave of absence from his job as an attorney, rented out his family's Orinda, Calif., house, and moved to Chengdu, a city in western China, in 2010 with his wife and two children.