Mandarin Essentials – Key Chinese Language Basics

A: Nĭmen zhōngguó de fúwùyè zhēn shì zhōu dào. A: 你们中国的服务业真是周到。 A: The service industry in China is really thorough. B: Nĭ cóng nă kàn chū lái de? B: 你从哪看出来的？ B: Where …

富与贵（Fù yŭ guì）Rich and Expensive

17/03/2015 / #ChineseForBeginnerLearners, #ChineseVocabulary, #RichAndExpensive

Lăoshī: Sānzhōngquánhuì hòu, zhōngguó zuì dà de biànhuà shì shénme? 老师: 三中全会后，中国最大的变化是什么？ Teacher: What was the greatest change in China after the Third Plenary Session? Xuésheng: Sānzhōngquánhuì hòu, zhōngguó zuì dà de biànhuà shì nóngmín yuè lái …

Riddles about Chinese Characters 字谜（Zìmí）

17/03/2015 / #ChineseForBeginnerLearners, #ChineseVocabulary, #RiddlesChineseCharacters

Yì jiā shí yì kǒu (Dǎ yí gè hàn zì)

1. 一家十一口（打一个汉字）

There are eleven mouths in a family. (Guess a Chinese character)

Chī yí bàn, ná yí bàn (Dǎ yí gè hàn zì) 2. 吃一半， …

Technology-Microsoft’s Search Engine: Bing 必应 (bì yìng)

17/03/2015 / #ChineseCulturalHighlights, #ChineseForAdvancedLearners, #MicrosoftSSearchEngineBing

Microsoft’s Search Engine: Bing “必应(bì yìng)”

Bing is a search engine launched by Microsoft recently to replace the Live Search. Microsoft has claimed that this search engine will come out with a completely new look to bring a new revolution. In Chinese, Bing is translated …

Polular Words-房奴(fángnú) Mortgage Slave 闪 (shăn) to act quickly

16/03/2015 / #ChineseForIntermediateLearners, #ChineseVocabulary, #FanGnuMortgageSlave

房奴(fángnú) mortgage slave

Where does the phrase originate from? In Shenzhen, a southern city in China, it’s always very costly for common workers to buy an apartment or a house. A 32 -year-old Shenzhener surnamed Zhou from Futian complained that over half of his monthly …

Sports-Shaquille O’Neal Visited少林寺 (shàolínsì) Shao Lin Temple

16/03/2015 / #ChineseForBeginnerLearners, #ChineseVocabulary, #ShaquilleONealVisitedShaolinTemple

Shaquille O’Neal became the first NBA star who visited “少林寺(shàolínsì)” Shao Lin Temple in Henan Province in China on July 13th, 2009. Although it was raining in that morning, he said he was extremely excited as he is always interested in Chinese martial art, so …

推特 (Tuītè) Twitter

16/03/2015 / #ChineseForAdvancedLearners, #ChineseVocabulary, #Twitter

Technology

推特(tuītè) Twitter

Twitter is translated as 推特(tuītè) in Chinese language. Twitter is a kind of 微型博客(wēixíng bókè) micro-blog, allowing users to send the 最新动态(zuì xīn dòngtài) latest developments and ideas in the form of a short message, to their followers. All Twitter messages are …

Answer to 春雨(chūnyǔ) The Spring Rain

16/03/2015 / #AnswerToChunYuTheSpringRain, #ChineseCulturalHighlights, #ChineseForAllLevels

Answers:

1. B

2. B

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