Answer to Video Lesson: The Holiday Was Too Short!
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Mandarin Essentials
How Artificial Intelligence Is Proving To Be Smarter Than Us!
Have you heard about the recent discovery of two new planets? We are always discovering new things, including what NASA calls exoplanets, or planets outside of the earth’s solar system. Most recently, NASA and Google have discovered two new planets in a far-away “太阳系 (tài yáng xì) solar system” using cutting-edge “人工智能 (réngōng zhìnéng) artificial intelligence”, or AI.…
Answer to How Artificial Intelligence Is Proving To Be Smarter Than Us!
Answer: B A facial recognition system is a computer application capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. Google Translate is a multilingual machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text from one language into another.…
Learn to Write in Chinese – Basic Chinese Character Strokes
Basic Chinese Character Strokes:
1. 横 hénɡ The Horizontal Stroke
2. 竖 shù The Vertical Stroke
撇 piě The Left Descending Stroke
捺 nà The Right Descending Stroke
3. 撇 piě The Left Descending Stroke
4. 捺 nà The Right Descending Stroke
5. 点 diǎn The Dot
6.…
Video Lesson: One More Beer! (Part I)
In life, we all have our moments of needing one more of something: “One more beer!” “One more bowl!” “One more time!” “One more gold medal!”
Exercises in the Video:
1. A: Fúwùyuán, zài yào yì wǎn miàn. B: Hǎo de! What does the customer want?…
Answer to Video Lesson: One More Beer! (Part I)
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Video Lesson: I Love Ice Cream!
Seems like everyone loves ice cream. But ice cream hotpot?
Exercises in the Video:
1. A: Tài rè le. Wǒ xiǎng chī ge tiántǒng, nǐ yào bu yào? B: Dāngrán yào. What do they want to have according to the dialogue? Please choose the best answer. A.…
Answer to Video Lesson: I Love Ice Cream!
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Feeling Pressure to Get Married? You’re Not the Only One!
Whenever my friends return home for the holidays (in China, that’s the New Year, Spring or Autumn Festival), they always end up calling me and complaining about the same thing: “Jennifer, my mom is at it again–I’m still not married, and she says I should be!”…
Give a Compliment at the Office: How to Address Colleagues with Respect!
Business relationships can be just as influential as personal ones in our daily lives, if you spend a lot of time at work. My fellow teachers and I are constantly interacting with one another, and this makes our lives richer and more fun, and it makes us better teachers!…
Answer to Feeling Pressure to Get Married? You’re Not the Only One!
Answer:B 英语角 (yīngyǔ jiǎo) English Corner.
相亲角 (xiāngqīn jiǎo) Matchmaking Corner.
汉语角 (hànyǔ jiǎo) Chinese Corner.
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Video Lesson: What Do You REALLY Mean by This Color?
Red, black…when Chinese people use them, do you know what they REALLY mean?
Exercises in the Video:
1. Zhēn bù zhīdào Jill shì zǒu le shénme yùn. Tā de xīn nán péngyou shì yǒumíng de zuànshí wáng lǎo wǔ. Which of the followings is true? A.…
Video Lesson: There’s No Mai-Tai in This Bar!
There is the Great Wall in China. There is the Eiffel Tower in France. There is the London Eye in U.K. Are there any landmarks in your Country?
Exercises in the Video:
1. A: Are there many foreigners in Beijing? B: Shì de, Běijīng yǒu hěnduō wàiguórén. Which of the following statements is most likely to be true according to the dialogue? A.…
Answer to Video Lesson: There’s No Mai-Tai in This Bar!
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The Unique Ways Chinese People Keep Warm in Winter
Daily life can be vastly different between the USA and China. It’s no secret that the food, history and culture of the two countries are not always similar. One other aspect of life that is unique in China is the things you can find when you’re out shopping.…
Answer to The Unique Ways Chinese People Keep Warm in Winter
Answer: A 冰淇淋 (bīngqílín): ice cream. It is popular in summer.
烤玉米 (kǎoyùmǐ): roasted corn.
烤红薯 (kǎohóngshǔ): roasted sweet potatoes.
暖手袋 (nuǎnshǒudài): warm handbags.
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Video Lesson: Dongzhi Festival
In traditional Chinese culture, “Winter solstice” marks the start of the longer daylight hours and an increase in positive energy flowing in. Chinese call this day “dōngzhì,” and eat either dumplings or Tangyuan on that day.
Exercises in the Video:
1. A: Ellie, Dōngzhì kuàilè! B: Xièxie!…
Answer to Video Lesson: Dongzhi Festival
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