Today’s guest post is from Casey who works for Live The Language Mandarin School. She talks about her experience of learning Chinese in Chengde.
It’s true when they say you won’t see any foreigners in Chengde. The only …
Today’s guest post is very important to me, not just because I have contributed to it, but also because I think it is a valuable resource for learning Chinese. Chinese is a great language, full of interesting idioms and phrases. …
Today’s guest post introduces great ways to learn Chinese while travelling! Learning a language is difficult as it is, but if you can do it while you have fun, it will feel easier.
Travelling can be a great way …
It was February 2014 and I’d been living in Okinawa, Japan for about a year and a half. I didn’t care much for speaking Japanese because I was still in my listening phase of language acquisition. I was still feeling …
The question of which language to use in an intercultural relationship usually solves itself naturally. In our case we exclusively communicate in Mandarin Chinese.
When I met my husband a few years ago my Chinese was already fairly good, …
After the last post about essential baking equipment in China, how different supplies are called in Chinese and where to get them, here follows the second part of the guide: A list of baking ingredients, how they are called …
For those of you living in fully developed, non-Asian countries, a guide for baking equipment seems hardly worth a discussion, let alone a whole article. In China, however, baking a cake can turn into an insurmountable task.
Chinese kitchens usually …
After the eventful and exciting semi-finals in London in March this year, I got the chance to take part in the finals of the 13th Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition in China this July.
First of all, when I made …
After several hard and exhausting weeks, classes are finally over. It is time to get back to writing.
Last Saturday the 22nd of March, I took part at the “Chinese Bridge” competition.
The Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition is an …
“A witness when put upon the stand is expected to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Many witnesses concerning the Chinese have told the truth, but perhaps few of them have succeeded in telling nothing …
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Erjiaxian 二夹弦: Bozhou’s regional opera and my first time on stage as a man
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