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Did You Just Deliberately Lose The Game?

One of my favorite things about Chinese is that it has a wide range of depth and meaning, especially when it comes to characters, or combinations of characters ...

Chinese Video Lesson: Lantern Festival

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How to greeting in Chinese

Now that you are going to see a Chinese friend you haven’t seen for a while. How do you greet him besides saying Ni hao? How do you show your genuine warmness a...

Things you need to know about Chinese New Year

Exercise in the Video: 1. A: Ellie, jīntiān shì chúxī, let’s make some dumplings.     B: Sure, I love dumplings!      Wh...

Incentive to “Stay on”: Learn About China’s Year-End Bonus!

Chinese New Year is coming. The “年终奖 (niánzhōng jiǎng) year-end bonus” has recently become a hot topic in China. At the end of each year, what people most often...

What Is the Most Effective Way to Learn Mandarin Online?

1. About Learning Mandarin Chinese Mandarin Chinese is the official language of Mainland China and Taiwan. There are many versions of Chinese spoken throughout ...

At the “Top of Your Game”? You Might be a “高手 (Gāoshǒu)”!

None of us like to start a new learning process just to end up being average in the end. We all wish to become “masters” at what we do. I began learning Mandari...

Which Chinese Character Would You Use to Sum Up 2017?

Each year we are seeing Chinese become more and more popular, all around the world, but especially in Asian countries. As 2017 is done, Asian countries have cho...

What to Never Say to a Chinese Woman: Here Are the 10 Worst Expressions (Part II)!

In a previous article, I introduced a popular speaking topic that I explore in my Mandarin Chinese classes with curious students: 10 Expressions You Should Neve...

4 Things You Must Know Before Doing Business in China

Although some of my Mandarin Chinese students sign up for Chinese classes to impress their in-laws, enrich their cultural knowledge or just to exercise their br...

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 ...

10 Expressions You Should Never Say to a Chinese Woman (Part I)!

One of the speaking topics that I love to explore, and that is never dull, in my Mandarin Chinese classes is the endless conversation on dating and relationship...

Let Your Chinese Take Flight with This Bird Metaphor!

All languages often use animals as metaphorical representations of a person’s character or temperament. In English, phrases such as “stubborn as a mule” and “ey...

“Going Dutch”: Learn AA制 and When To Do It

Would you like separate checks, or all together?” Anyone who has eaten in a North American restaurant knows this question from the waiter or waitress. When the ...

Buying a SIM Card in China: the Chinese You Need

Arriving in Beijing a year ago to begin my Mandarin Chinese course was a pretty intimidating experience. Unlike a week long vacation, this move to China seemed ...

What Is the Most Effective Way to Learn Chinese Characters?

Chinese is distinctive for its characters. When people think of China, they think of thousands upon thousands of symbols, normally amazed that people can memori...

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...

Understand 人情 (rénqíng)? Prepare for an Easy Life in China

Something students learning Chinese should know is that learning just the language isn’t enough—one must also study Chinese culture. Every culture has its own m...

Yummy! Learn This Chinese Slang Word for Popular

Do you watch The Bachelor or Bachelorette? In each show the main hero or heroine (who we label as the Bachelor or Bachelorette) hands out a series of roses to c...

What It Means to Have a “玻璃心 Glass Heart”

“Your Chinese is probably the worst in the class.” A classmate said jokingly to my close friend in a study abroad program. Although her Chinese was not the best...