ninhaochina:

In the spirit of promoting environmental conservation, this boat - named ‘Simida - was made by a group of 4 students from Chongqing University of Science and Technology. The boat is made out of 1,504 plastic drink bottles and took two months to complete.

ninhao: Ninhao Mini-Lesson: "Friendship" and "Good Friends" »

ninhaochina:

You may be interested in China and Chinese culture and would like to be friends with a Chinese person, but do you know how to say “friendly” in Chinese? How about saying “a good friend”? What may complicate the matter regarding these two meanings is that they are the same two characters but…

ninhao: ninhao Mini-Lesson: Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill; "小题大做” »

ninhaochina:

It has all happened to us before; we may have a violent or emotional response to an event that we later regret when afterwards it doesn’t seem as urgent or important anymore. In English we would say this is “making a mountain out of a molehill”, but do you know how to say this in Chinese?

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ninhao: ninhao Mini-Lesson: Moderation in All Things 万事守中庸 »

ninhaochina:

Confucius was a fellow who had a great deal of advice to share with everyone, and one of them was this sentiment: “Moderation in all things”. In Chinese this idea is expressed like so:”万事守中庸” (Wànshì shǒu zhōngyōng). To look at each character individually:

• 万 (Wàn) means “ten thousand” and is…

qingwenpodcast:

Lo and La （咯 & 啦）

Here is the final installment of our 语气词 (yǔqìcí) series. Here we get our “L” on… on the end of our sentences that is. See what the “lo” and the “la” can do to your sentence, and know that you can say these gender neutral particles with pride.

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allaboutchinese:

熊宝贝/饼干的 《地球吓了一跳》

Bear Treasure and Biscuit’s The Earth Gets a Fright