yǒuyuán qiān lǐ lái xiānghuì, wúyuán duìmiàn bù xiāngféng 有缘千里来相会，无缘对面不相逢 have connection thousand li come meet, no connection face-to-face don’t meet Fate brings people together 缘分 yuánfèn, or just 缘 yuán, is a term we use an awful...
Hmm… Is kitty waiting for me at the back door? Or the behind the door? In Chinese, word order is very important. In this article I’ll attempt to deal a bit with some common words that can...
Since we’re on the topics of shopping and money (videos here and here; audio list here) on the Mandarin Weekly series, I thought it’d be apt to introduce this proverb. Scroll down for the explanation and examples. So, what...
xué xí rú nì shuǐ xíng zhōu bú jìn zé tuì 学习如逆水行舟，不进则退。 Learning is like rowing a boat upstream. If you’re not moving up, you’re drifting down. If you’ve enjoyed this, don’t forget to hit one of...
