Past, Present and Future Tenses in Mandarin Chinese
May 27, 2016 - 42 Comments
Many well-known electronic brands, such as Lenovo and parts for numerous other brands are still made in China. Shenzhen, a city in the south, boasts its own electronics district where thousands of sellers tout mobile phone screens, flash drives, and custom spec desktop computers. Also located in Shenzhen, is one of the biggest Foxconn factories… Read More
This week Nora tells all about having a baby in China (don’t worry there’s no gore!) 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… An email from Allen in Winnipeg Teaching as an retired foreigner Why foreign women… Read More
Over the last few weeks in the Written Chinese Office… We’ve added some missing words to our Dictionary database! Check below to see if yours has been added! We’ve just added a massive amount of missing words and phrases to the dictionary, some of which were sent by you! If you find a word you’re… Read More
The New Year is often when people decide to spring clean, and do those DIY projects they’ve been putting off for months. Below is a list of vocabulary and phrases that you can use to describe household chores and DIY activities. Spring Cleaning Verbs 洗 (xǐ) can be used as a verb to describe the action ‘wash’…. Read More
It will only take [est_time] to read this post! This article is not going to teach you how to ‘Feng Shui’ your home, or tell you where to place your cacti, but will explain how I essentially went from ‘this is weird’ to kind of getting Feng Shui and what it means within Chinese culture…. Read More
Over the last few weeks in the Written Chinese Office… We’ve been working on this for a while now, so we’re pleased to announce that we now have Chinese with Mike flashcards in the Written Chinese Dictionary, and they’re FREE! You’ve probably heard of Mike Laoshi from his cool video series on YouTube, but there’s also… Read More