What motivates you to learn Chinese as a second language?
Why do you learn Chinese as a second language? To enhance your competitiveness, to make yourself handy for travelling, make yourself even better at your mother language? Whatever reason you …
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Is “蓝瘦香菇” a kind of mushroom?
蓝瘦香菇 (lán shòu xiāng gū) became an internet phenomenon in China almost overnight. It is however not about mushroom. The "蓝瘦香菇" (meaning blue skinny mushroom literally) is pronounced …
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How to use 就 and 才 in Chinese
The characters 就 (jiù) and 才 (cái) have a lot of uses in Mandarin Chinese. A common one is to express that events have occurred earlier or later than the …
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Podcast│Come on, I’ll be always with you…
Qīn ài de pénɡ you，zhī dào nǐ dé liǎo yì yù zhènɡ，wǒ yě hěn nán ɡuò 。 亲爱的朋友，知道你得了抑郁症，我也很难过。 My dear, I’m really sad to know that you are suffering depression. …
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Podcast: Monologue by a melancholiac
Wǒ yǒu yì tiáo hēi ɡǒu，tā de mínɡ zi jiào Yōu Yù 。 我有一条黑狗，它的名字叫忧郁。 I have a black dog. his name was Depression. Měi dānɡ zhè tiáo hēi ɡǒu chū xiàn …
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Immortals at the Magpie Bridge by Qin Guan
Immortals at the Magpie Bridge Qin Guan, Song Dynasty Clouds float like works of art; Stars shoot with grief at heart. Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the …
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Enjoy these funny comics by Shanghai artist Tango
If you like witty visual humor, you'll love these comics by Chinese artist Shanghai Tango that take the most unexpected turns in the final frame. Tango, whose real name is …
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How to say your sweater, jacket and coat in Chinese
Autumn is here! The weather is getting chillier and you need something to wear. The sweater, jacket and coat are musts in this season. There are various types, do you …
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How to use “其中” in Chinese
In classical Chinese, 其 means 那个, 那, or 那些, and refers to people or things previously mentioned in the sentence. It stands to reason therefore, that 其中 (qí zhōng) means …
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5 popular Chinese swear words
Here's a list of five most useful and popular Chinese swear words, necessary for survival Chinese: 1) The F-Bomb: 我操 (wǒ cào) In the above version, the second character means, …
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