Chinese videos to help improve your Mandarin! Watch these videos to improve your spoken Chinese as well as your listening skills. All videos come with translation into English and pinyin for your aid.
What the Chinese to learn? You may have heard that it is hot to learn Chinese right now. Maybe you’re interested in learning Chinese yourself! But haven’t you heard that there are several types of Chinese? Is Chinese even the correct terms to use? Is it the same as Mandarin? Cantonese? How many varieties are[…]
How to find the best online Mandarin tutors? Professional Chinese teachers with degrees and teaching experience If you’re looking for the perfect Chinese teacher for yourself or your child, then there are a lot of things to consider! How do you know if they’re good? How do you know what they will teach? What if[…]
Chinese Pickup Lines This is a video from Youtuber “Potter King” Who goes around trying some great/cheesy/terrible pickup lines on some unsuspecting bystanders. This uses advanced Chinese so we’ve translated it below with some descriptions of why it’s funny. If you can pull these off…. then your Chinese and your game is really next level. If[…]
Malaysian Mandopop Singer Fish Leong & “No Ifs”– To Whom Being Confused in Relationships Here come the Mandarin drama and romantic song recommendation! “No Ifs” (没有如果, méiyǒu rúguǒ) is a theme song and opening credit to the Taiwanese TV series “My Queen” (败犬女王, Bài quǎn nǚwáng), or “Queen of No Marriage”. The song is sung by[…]
The world just celebrated Halloween by dressing themselves in various movie characters or many kinds of ghosts from different countries. Zombie is always a good choice when people are trying to dress up and act horrifying. You must be too familiar with zombies image like those in The Walking Dead. However, the zombies in China[…]
Popular Chinese Love Song At Weddings – “Marry Me Today” Chinese song lyrics of “Marry Me Today” (“今天妳要嫁给我”, Jīntiān nǎi yào jià gěi wǒ) is a very popular song sung by Taiwanese singers David Tao (陶喆, Táozhé) and Jolin Tsai (蔡依林, Càiyīlín). As its name appears, this is a very delightful, cheerful and catchy song that is[…]
Almost Heaven: About Chinese Death Care Industry and Morticians “Almost Heaven” (咫尺天堂, Zhǐchǐ tiāntáng) is a documentary directed by Carol Salter. The documentary focuses on the actual person, a 17-year-old Ying Ling (莹玲) and her true story as an apprentice in a funeral house in Changsha (长沙), China. “Almost Heaven” follows Ying Ling, a migrant[…]
Chinese Teacher’s Day in China and Taiwan No matter your country is, there may be a national teacher’s day. The dates of teacher’s day depending on different countries. Many countries have their teacher’s day based on the birthday of national iconic education figures. Therefore, unlike many international holidays, teacher’s days around the world have different[…]
Mandarin TV Series “The Fierce Wife” “The Fierce Wife” (Chinese: 犀利人妻, Xī lì rén qī) is a popular Taiwanese TV series released in 2010. The drama is starred by main characters Sonia Sui (隋棠), Wen Sheng Hao (温升豪), Chris Wang (王宥胜) and Amanda Zhu (朱芯仪). “The Fierce Wife” was such a blockbuster that it was[…]
Chinese Children’s song When I was a child and learning English as a second language, I always enjoyed the fun English kids’ songs! These songs were so catchy that I even used my free time to listen to them and enjoy them — my parents didn’t have to force me at all. Songs (and children’s[…]
Mayday – Popular band in Taiwan MayDay “五月天” (Wǔyuètiān) is a famous Taiwanese band consists of five members, Ashin, Monster, Stone, Masa, and Guan You. MayDay made their debut in 1999 and has abundant of albums, four best hit albums, and concert albums, all of which sold in impressive numbers including the sales into[…]
“Fairy Tale” : The song of Most Popular In Chinese Michael Wong, also well known as 光良(Guāngliáng), born 30 August 1970, is a Malaysian Chinese singer and composer. He has sung and written many love songs those of which have high popularity. Wong began his singing career around 1995 and has released five solo albums[…]