How should you introduce yourself in Mandarin, and how should you ask people for their names? Here are the audio files, and below, the explanation. Get the order right First of all, in Chinese, surnames come first,...
Today is the first day of Chinese New Year. May you have an eggplant on the horse! This is indeed a weird New Year greeting. Well, it’s actually part of a series of trending CNY greetings this...
Let’s learn some simple Mandarin greetings that you can use daily. Probably what comes to mind when we mention Mandarin is the phrase “你好”nǐ hǎo, which means ‘hello’. 01 ni hao You can use it when you...
Chinese New Year is just two days away! This is probably the most important festive season for Chinese people all over the world. In Mandarin, Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year) is known by various names,...
As we all know, the English language has borrowed extensively from different languages. Let’s have a look at some expressions that have originated from Chinese. The expression we’re going to learn today is ‘long time no see’,...
Have you learnt the Little Snail song? Here’s another song for you to learn. A children’s song again, this time a popular one! It’s called《客人来》(Kèrén lái) – ‘kèrén’ meaning ‘guest, visitor’, and ‘lái’, ‘to come, to visit’....
