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Characteristic Chinese: Leisure in China
2014-09-26 09:41
New arrivals in China often get the impression that Chinese are 工作狂 (gōng zuò kuáng), workaholics. Yet, there is quite a bit of 空闲 (kòng xián), leisure, in China.

Learn Chinese:Chinese Poems – Lesson 207 相思 Lovesick Beans
2014-08-25 13:41
Lovesick Beans

Learn Chinese:Chinese Poems – Lesson 206 The Happy Uplands
2014-08-13 17:30
Toward evening, I feel out of spirits.

Learn Chinese:Chinese Poems – Lesson 205 江雪
2014-07-28 18:12
Snow on the River

Chinese idoms– Lesson 203 老马识途 (An Old Horse Knows the Way)
2014-07-14 16:58
"An old horse may know the way" refers to the value of experience.

Chinese idoms– Lesson 202 抛砖引玉 (to attract jade by laying bricks)
2014-07-08 11:09
"My poem is a brick, and Zhao Gu's poem is jade, I layed a brick, and attracted jade!" This idiom is now a polite expression often used when giving an opinion or delivering a speech. It means that what one is offering is somehow lacking, and one is in hopes that others will, seeing it, offer something that is better.

Learn Chinese: Chinese Idiom– Lesson 201 自相矛盾 self-contradictory
2014-07-07 14:55
A man of the state of Chu (chǔ guó 楚国) had a spear and a shield for sale.

Learn Chinese: Basic Chinese Sentences– Lesson 200 结账 Paying the bill
2014-07-03 18:32
Paying the bill

Learn Chinese: Basic Chinese Sentences– Lesson 199 在饭馆儿(zài fàn guǎn ér)
2014-07-01 13:15
At the restaurant

Learn Chinese: Basic Chinese Sentences– Lesson 198 列举 Enumeration
2014-06-27 09:45
I have many friends. Some of them are clerks of companies, some are teachers, and some are workers.

Learn Chinese: Basic Chinese Sentences– Lesson 197 目的 Purpose
2014-06-26 07:37
I came to China to learn Chinese.

Learn Chinese: Basic Chinese Sentences– Lesson 196 原因和结果 Cause and effect
2014-06-25 14:25
原因和结果 (yuán yīn hé jié guǒ)
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