Welcome back to Two White Chicks in China with Hollie and Nora! This week we have a question from Jessica from Sweden, who asked us “What things do you wish you’d prepared before coming to China?” In This Episode We Talk About… Comments from everyone! Thanks so much! Review from Calvin, Thanks mate! Fake Cops… Read More
When I first came to China, one of the first phrases I had to learn (much to my embarrassment) was 听不懂 (tīng bu dǒng) . Which, literally translated being ‘listen no understand’ or ‘I don’t understand what you’re saying’. Since then, I’ve learned a few more ways to say that I do (or don’t) understand… Read More
Welcome back to Two White Chicks in China with Hollie and Nora! This week we have another question from Boyka who’s originally from Bulgaria and now lives in Shenzhen, who asked us “What special beauty regiments and tricks do Chinese women follow to look frustratingly attractive?” In This Episode We Talk About… Comments from everyone!… Read More
It will only take [est_time] to read this post! What is a Bigram? A bigram, is according to the Oxford Dictionary, “A pair of consecutive written units such as letters, syllables, or words” In the English language, an example of a letter bigram would be ‘th’, as found in ‘the’, ‘their’ and ‘there’. Bigrams also… Read More
Welcome back to Two White Chicks in China with Hollie and Nora! This week we have another question from Hanney in Australia, who asked us “What do Chinese people do to stay healthy?” In This Episode We Talk About… Charlotte comments on bringing up babies in China (see Episode 23) You can check out the… Read More
The first thing I asked when I arrived in China over 4 years ago was how to say ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’. I insisted on saying ‘谢谢’ for everything and got upset when people didn’t say it back to me when I held a door or did some other trivial deed. I tried to ask… Read More