Mandarin Monday: Fend Off Pesky Paparazzi (Especially When You Have Kids)
When you’re out with children, the situation can escalate quickly as a child can be frightened and parents protective.
When you’re out with children, the situation can escalate quickly as a child can be frightened and parents protective.
Learning this complex language is about more than just talking to taxi drivers and market vendors.
HSK 3 may be quite challenging, but it’s still doable! Here are some tips that I got from my Chinese teachers.
The term exists in the Chinese language but doesn’t have any literal relation to dogs or any kind of canines whatsoever.
While our liking for shopping transcends the challenges of the language barrier, it doesn't hurt to know the many Chinese words related to supermarket runs.
For our new Mandarin Monday series, we take on a new challenge to improve our vocabularies.
If you’re at a loss where to find your driving force to learning Chinese, here are some proverbs that may help you in the journey.
Start the year with a pledge to learn more words.
You might be celebrating now, but our task of learning Chinese doesn’t stop just yet.
Last Saturday marked the September (autumn) equinox, which meant we’ll once more get an equal length of day and night. Soon after, nights will become long again. The Chinese call it 秋分 (qiūfēn), the 16th point in the 24 Solar Terms (24 节气 jiéqì), an important part of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. The astronomical …