This week we’re doing something a little bit different, and giving you a bonus episode whilst we’re still working on our episode 100! If you want to ask us a question just go to our voicemail page and leave us your question! In This Episode We Talk About… What we’ve been upto for the last… Read More
What is ‘Chinese civilization’ 华夏文明 (huá xià wén míng)? Chinese civilization 华夏文明 (huá xià wén míng) begins, according to records, with the creation of the Xia dynasty 夏朝 (xià cháo) in 2070 BC. Although the Xia dynasty was the first ‘civilization’ in China, there were people who lived on the land well before Yu the Great… Read More
If you don’t have time to study this now, just and read it later! We recently posted an article about the 6 types of Chinese characters and how they came to exist. This follow up post, takes a look at 20 pictograph or pictogram characters found in written Chinese. Although there is a slight explanation… Read More
The first Chinese Dynasty, 夏朝 (xià cháo) Xia Dynasty, was founded in 2070 BCE, although settlers had existed within China for thousands of years before that. Communities would live beside the 江河 (jiāng hé) Yangtze and the Yellow rivers, which now boast archeological findings of farm lands dating back to the 7th Century BCE. Around… Read More
We’ve created several articles in the past that gave you some Chinese songs and artists to listen to and learn Chinese with. This time, we’re delving into a ‘niche’ genre of Chinese music, ‘zhong guo feng’, that provides us with not only a fun and entertaining language learning resource but also a cultural one! Traditional… Read More
Very little is known about the origins of the written Chinese language. However, one of the most common stories is about the minister of mythical Emperor Huang Di, 仓颉 (cāng jié) Cang Jie, who allegedly saw the prints of birds and animal’s feet as being distinct and individual. He then drew his own pictures of… Read More