There is a beautiful lake in the city of Hangzhou, its name is West Lake. Lots of love stories have taken place in this romantic place. Among all of them, the most famous one is a story between Xuxian, a scholar and a white snake who took the shape of a pretty woman. Here is […]
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Another Monday morning. How about something fun? Let’s talk a bit about food in China. Recently I came across a fantastic website of Henry Hargreaves’. Henry is a photographer who is much into food and therefore has taken lots of really interesting photos with food as the theme! What strikes me the most is the
Amy from Hutong School sent me their newly made video “Chinese Tones”. I watched it and found it a real good introduction to Chinese Tones. Chinese tones were introduced clearly. I believe it is definitely worth spreading. It is one of the 4 part series of “Chinese is Easy”. The other 3 will cover Chinese
What are the top languages spoken in today’s world? Such a question requires an answer. Here you can find an infographic which tells everything you want to know. Let’s have a general look together: surprisingly, 6900 languages are spoken around the world daily. However, 3/7 of the 7 billion population speak one of the 10
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Chinese zodiac animals are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. The Chinese characters somehow show how the animals look like. Have a look at this video and have a guess what characters represent the animals!
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How can we live a life without books?! Books are mentioned in lots of proverbs, in all languages. Here I would like to list some in Chinese. 好书如挚友 hǎo shū rú zhì yǒu A good book is a good friend. 一本好书，相伴一生 yī běn hǎo shū, xiāng bàn yī shēng A good book is the best
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Today is 大年三十(New Year’s Eve). In China, it is the most important and cheerful day. Like Christmas in western countries, the reunion dinner has significant meaning to Chinese people since all family members will get together. In addition to family reunion dinner, people stay up all night to celebrate the arrival of new year. After
As Chinese new year, in another word, Spring festival, is around the corner, have you already felt a bit of festive atmosphere? If yes, perfect; if no, have a look at this video and see Chinese people prepare for the arrival of new year and how they celebrate it! If you are interested to find
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The Chinese new year of Horse will fall in two-week time, that is, Jan. 31. It will last till lasts to Feb. 18, 2015. Horse is well loved by children. To celebrate this particular year, in addition to the other traditional craft activities, I would like to share with you some of ideas I came
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This song has many versions in many languages. The Chinese version has different lyrics, telling a funny story that 2 tigers run fast. One of them has no ears and the other no tail. How strange, how strange, the song sings. It is an easy song for children to learn. Since it exists in other
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Shel Silverstein’s masterpiece “the Giving Tree” has moved thousands of children and adults since its publication in 1964. It is a story between a tree and a boy. The tree loves a boy and gives everything to the boy. Giving brings happiness to the tree…In Chinese, this book is titled as 爱心树(ài xīn shù). Watch
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This lovely children’s song is a favorite for many of the Chinese children. It helps counting in Chinese. Hope your child likes it. 数鸭歌
Rainbow has seven colors. This easy song teaches the seven colors of a rainbow. 彩虹歌 cǎi hóng gē 红色， 黄色，粉红，绿 hóng sè, huáng sè, fén hóng, lǜ, 紫和橙 zǐ hé chéng 蓝和白 lán hé bái 黑 hēi I can sing a 彩虹， I can sing a cǎi hóng sing a 彩虹， sing a cǎi hóng
Learning Chinese language brings interest in the country of China, this is especially true with the new generation of technology natives. Look, I received an email from a child who started to learn recently. He was very excited “You got to watch this!” Now I am sharing the video with you, believing another child will
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Three monks is a famous story in China. On the high mountain there is a temple. There is a long distance from the temple to the river which is located at the foot of the mountain. One monk used to live there. He had to walk a long way to fetch water, but he did
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This is a story about a girl named Marilyn. She is afraid to take swimming lessons because she would make huge splash and other children would laugh at her as a whale. The coach noticed it and had a talk with her. He told her, sometimes what we think can determine who we become. If
It is the biggest palace complex in the world. It is so big that it is called “city” in Chinese. This is the so-called Forbidden City, 紫禁城（zǐ jìn chéng), which literally means “purple forbidden city”, located in the city of Beijing, which was the Chinese imperial palace for almost 500 years. It was a forbidden
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