Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
It is extremely difficult, its not a matter of just what you put into it like with other languages. Somewhere, I read an article from …
My English teacher, was an American from Oregon, named Susan Grant. She was a retired lawyer who likes to hike. She taught me that when …
Three thousand years ago, a lot of characters looked like what they mean, but over the course of three thousand years, some things are bound …
The reason is that sound changes reduces the complex consonant clusters of Old Chinese and deleted final consonants over time. Old Chinese typically had short …
Actually I’ve never seen this phrase before, and a little googling gave no result either. I guess it’s a confusion of two unrelated phrase/idioms: 倚老卖老： …
That’s another ‘China Myth’, right? But the truth is: a Chinese character is not an English/Latin letter, but it is a word, or even a …
Because it is a fire related one, in China, this explanation is widely accepted. And if you search it on Google, you’ll likely find that …
There are over 50,000 Chinese characters and it would be an absolute superhuman feat to remember anything even remotely close to that 1,500 to 2,000 …
Okay, here’s the thing: Every Chinese name, when translated literally into English, often has a meaning similar to the style of names in World of Warcraft, …
I’m Singaporean. In theory, I’m bilingual. In Singapore, many of my daily interactions will be in Chinese. Many people will speak Chinese to me, and …