Archive for the 'General' Category
According to today’s BBC News, “Nearly one in six children - and almost one quarter of boys - have difficulty learning to talk, research suggests.”
This result from the YouGov online survey of 1,015 parents seems to be quite surprising. The high proportion of boys having difficulty learning to talk especially caught my attention. [...]
January 4th, 2010 | Posted in General | No Comments
This is a quiz about China, its history and culture from Timesonline. Try it and test your knowledge about China!
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December 17th, 2009 | Posted in Chinese tradition and culture, General | 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
This video is from http://www.guardian.co.uk/multimedia. Very good short movie about China’s 60th National Anniversary parades. China’s national day is Oct. 01.
From Boston Globe online, there are 39 stunning photos of this memorable event. Here I list only several:
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October 2nd, 2009 | Posted in General, life-event | No Comments
Dragon Fist from sun haipeng on Vimeo.
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August 4th, 2009 | Posted in General | No Comments
As usual, I got up first. Soon, I heard the steps from the stairs. It was my 5-year-old daughter. She came towards me with a big smile. “Happy Mother’s Day!” she kissed me. Then came my 7-year-old son. He also said “Happy Mother’s Day” and kissed me. They gave me some cards and two wrapped [...]
May 10th, 2009 | Posted in General, life-event | No Comments
if the world were a village of 100, 22 would speak Mandarin…
May 8th, 2009 | Posted in General, Mandarin Chinese | No Comments
I found a series of very interesting pictures describing the difference between Chinese and German culture. The pictures are from hellishhumor.com . Here I take some examples to share with you.
note: the blue side is German, red side Chinese.
1. Opinions (Meinung / 意见
So, Germans are direct when expressing their opinions while Chinese tend to take [...]
January 18th, 2008 | Posted in Chinese culture in picture, Chinese tradition and culture, Chinese vs. German culture, General | No Comments