Archive for the 'Chinese Counting' Category
Two little one-eyed mascots - Olympic mascot Wenlock, Paralympic mascot Mandeville - were unveiled to the world recently. Here is the story video explaining where they came from. Of course, the video is in Chinese!
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May 25th, 2010 | Posted in Cartoons in Chinese, Chinese Counting, Chinese songs, General, life-event | No Comments
We know the song of “Wheels on the Bus”. Here is its Chinese version, I am sure any child will like it. Below I post the lyrics.
公车上的轮子转呀转,
gōng chē shàng de lún zi zhuàn ya zhuàn
转呀转,转呀转,
zhuàn ya zhuàn, zhuàn ya zhuàn
公车上的轮子转呀转,
gōng chē shàng de lún [...]
October 9th, 2009 | Posted in Chinese Counting, Chinese children's song, Uncategorized | No Comments
I read an article letter from the Times. It was written by Dr Richard Pike, Chief Executive of Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr. Pike himself was one of the small group of students who started to learn Japanese when Japan started to become the “Asian giant” in 1970s. He later spent years working in Japan, [...]
October 7th, 2009 | Posted in Chinese Counting, General, Learning Chinese, life-event, zeal to learn Chinese | No Comments
Dog in Chinese is 狗, pronounced as gǒu. Below you will learn how to write it.
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June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Chinese Basic Words, Chinese Counting, Writing | No Comments
We have talked about numbers in Chinese. Based on the numbers, we have also learned weekdays by adding 星期(xīng qī ) in front. Now I would like to talk about how to describe Year(年nián ), Month(月yuè ) in Chinese.
Years (年nián ) are easy to say in Chinese. You simply need to pronounce the numbers. [...]
December 19th, 2007 | Posted in Calendar in Chinese, Chinese Basic Words, Chinese Counting, Chinese month, Chinese year, General | No Comments
Based on the basic numbers, it is easy to learn the weekdays.
First, we need to learn the word “week”. In Chinese, it is 星期(xīng qī ). The next is easy.
For Monday, it is week(day) one — 星期一(xīng qī yī )
For Tuesday, it is week(day) two — 星期二(xīng qī èr [...]
November 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Chinese Basic Words, Chinese Counting, Writing, week in Chinese, weekdays in Chinese, write Chinese | No Comments
This song helps kids to count from 1 to 10. Here is one video clip featuring this song.
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November 7th, 2007 | Posted in Chinese Counting, Chinese children's song, Chinese children's song, Chinese number, Chinese songs, Common questions | 1 Comment
Numbers in Chinese are comparatively easy. Once a person learns 1-10, it is easy for him/her to learn 11-99.
Learning the number one to ten Chinese is the most useful lesson. Once they are mastered, you will be able to
count higher
learn the weekdays, dates of a month, months of a year, etc.
tell prices
tell the time
The ten [...]
November 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Chinese Basic Words, Chinese Counting | 1 Comment
There are only 297 days to the date of 2008 Olympic Games. We were searching for tickets for the opening ceremony, we asked several travel agencies and were told that all the tickets to the opening ceremony were sold out!
OK, no chance to go for the opening ceremony, but it is still good to talk [...]
October 16th, 2007 | Posted in Chinese Counting, General, number, time | 1 Comment