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| A funny story A mother mouse and a baby mouse are walking along, 鼠妈妈和她的孩子正在赶路。 Shǔ mā ma hé tā de hái zi zhèng zài găn lù All of a sudden a cat attacks them. 突然一只猫向她们扑来。 Tù rán yì zhī māo xiàng tā mén pū lái The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away. “汪汪” 鼠妈妈学了一声狗叫,那只猫掉头就跑了。 wàng wàng shǔ mā ma xúe le yì shēng gŏu jiào, nà zhī māo diào tóu jiù păo le "See?" says the mother mouse to her baby, "Now do you see why it's important to learn a foreign language?" “看”,鼠妈妈对她的孩子说,“现在你明白学外语的重要了吧?” Kàn, shǔ mā ma dùi tā de hái zi shūo , xiàn zài nĭ mĺng bāi xúe wài yǔ dē zhòng yào le ba ? Free Translation available now! A new function added to our website. The service is provided by Google translation API service You can use this service for free. Enjoy! Admin Google Search
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Don't you know that Chinese people want to work with people based on Communication and Trust? If your answer is yes, you should start to learn Chinese! Learning Chinese is an extraordinary and agreeable experience through which you can immerse yourself in a different culture. Unlike most languages, Chinese has a unique ideographic writing system, which provides visual comprehensibility. The grammatical structure of Chinese is not only logical, but also pragmatic, related to the particular way of Chinese thinking. Knowledge of the written language opens up the culture of one of the world's oldest civilizations. From Confucianism and Chan Buddhism to martial arts and Chinese cuisine, Chinese culture has an enormous influence on East and Southeast Asian nations. Chinese culture has also greatly inspired the western world through Marco Polo, G. W. Leibniz, Max Weber, Franz Kafka, Andre Malraux, Bertolt Brecht, Ezra Pound, and Luis Borges, among others. Learning another language gives you another viewpoint. It does seem to help mentally as you develop new areas of your brain. It also helps as people age. I once had a fun talk with a programmer explaining how learning a new computer language helped keep his mind fresh. Learning Chinese will give a student a competitive advantage. Chinese is the fastest growing Foreign Language being taught in US schools. "We want to give our young people opportunities to advance ... and [Chinese] is a great opportunity to survive in today's economy."--Mayor Daly's. Chinese traditional holidays Chinese traditional holidays The Traditional Chinese holidays are an essential part of Chinese culture. Many of the customs connected with the traditional festivals have links with religious devotions, superstitions and myths.Almost every festival has its own unique origins and customs which reflect the traditional practices and morality of the whole Chinese nation and its people. The grandest and most popular festivals are the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, the Qingming Festival, Duanwu Festival, the Night of Sevens, the Mid-autumn Festival, the Chongyang Festival, and the Laba Festival. ... full story What is PinYin 1.History of Pinyin Pinyin, short for Hanyu Pinyin, which means "phonetic notation" or "phonetic symbols" while Pin means "spell(ing)" and Yin means "sound(s)"), is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin. Pinyin was approved in 1958 and adopted in 1979 by the government in the People's Republic of China. It superseded older romanization systems such as Wade-Giles (1859; modified 1912) and Postal System Pinyin, and replaced zhuyin as the method of Chinese phonetic instruction in mainland China. .....Full Article A Chinese character or Han character 1. How many chinese characters? The number of Chinese characters contained in the Kangxi dictionary is approximately 47,035, although a large number of these are rarely used variants accumulated throughout history. Studies carried out in China have shown that full literacy requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters. .....full article | Google AdsWelcomeWord of todayPhrase of todayGoogle AdsDonate through Paypal |
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