Although there are many similarities between punctuation in written Chinese and English, there are some interesting additions within the Chinese language To write using Chinese characters and punctuation using your computer or mobile phone, you need to set up a Chinese keyboard on your device. You can find out how to do this on our… Read More
Beauty and ‘self care’ has become a huge part of Chinese culture within the last few years. In an extreme version of the west, looking good, beautiful and cute in the million selfies you just took in your favourite coffee chain is pretty important. Many Chinese mobile phones have excellent quality cameras and include software… Read More
This week our question comes from Patrick, who asks us “Did someone help you choose your Chinese name?” If you want to ask us a question just go to our voicemail page and leave us your question! In This Episode We Talk About… A review and Julia’s story Groom Arrested for Hiring 200 Fake Friends… Read More
Get to grips with expressing actions and ‘finished’ actions in Chinese by following these sentence patterns and example sentences. We’ll look at suffixes you can use to complete an action and how to create negative action sentences. Performing an Action To describe how an action is performed or how it was performed in the past,… Read More
This week our question comes from Cameron, who asks us “How do the movie theater experience and etiquette differ in China?” If you want to ask us a question just go to our voicemail page and leave us your question! In This Episode We Talk About… Man’s Rant Against Sending Daughter to Study in US… Read More
It will only take [est_time] to read this post! There is an old Chinese saying, 药补不如食补 (yào bǔ bù rú shí bǔ) The benefits of medicine are not as great as those of good nutrition. I think most of us would agree with that statement, especially in more recent years as we begin to… Read More