Blog Tag - Mandarin Monday
If meeting someone's family for the first time wasn't intimidating enough, here in China you also have to navigate the minefield of kinship terms....
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends.
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Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends....
After a rainy weekend, we're back to saying, "Blimey, it's hot!" Luckily, Chinese comes preloaded with dozens of fun and creative hot-weather phrases...
In this week's Mandarin Monday, we'll focus on what we all need to know for those emergency situations where polite talk just doesn't do the trick:...
It may be tedious, but learning your radicals (偏旁 piān páng) is one of the best "hacks" available to students of Chinese to eventually master the...
Although it was brought to China's Southwestern Yunnan provinvce in the 1880s by French missionaries, coffee consumption in China didn't really take...
In Mandarin 酒店 jiǔdiàn, 饭店 fàndiàn, 宾馆 bīnguǎn, 旅馆, lǚguǎn can all be translated as “hotel” in English but what’s the real difference between these...
In both Western and Chinese cultures, we hold stereotypes about certain animals. For example, pigs are considered to be lazy, foxes sneaky, and...
To pretty much enter anywhere nowadays you need to have gotten a Covid test within 72 hours (although it's unclear on whether or not this will change...
Confused when trying to understand the difference between a positive and negative Covid test result in Chinese? The answer may be as easy as...
Tomorrow (Apr 5) is Qingming Festival so we decided to bring you two famous ancient Chinese poems about the festival. The first one, by Tang Dynasty...
It’s a common practice in China to give Western celebrities nicknames that don't always match up with their given names. Sometimes this will be a...
Ubiquitous. Delicious. Not entirely nutritious. You can find them on the street in Beijing and Brooklyn. They are a staple of both morning commuters...
Despite Beijing being a comparatively easy city to navigate thanks to its grid formation, for the directionally or Mandarin-challenged, answering the...
