In a recent interview, Cameron said he is looking forward to traveling by rapid rail during his visit. 最近接收采访时，卡梅伦称自己很期待访华期间乘坐高铁旅行。 In October, London Mayor Boris Johnson took a high-speed train from Beijing to Shanghai and described it as “amazing”. 今年十月份，伦敦市长鲍里斯·约翰逊曾在中国乘坐高铁从北京去往上海，他称中国高铁“令人赞叹”。 “I am very interested in what’s happening with high-speed rail in China,” Cameron said. “It seems…
Many of China’s less prestigious medical schools find it hard to recruit students to train as doctors and others find that students with lower scores on the national university entrance exam, or gaokao, will use the lower requirements of some medical schools to gain entry to university, only to transfer later to faculties with higher…
Popular messaging service WeChat is hogging the limelight this Chinese New Year — by giving the traditions typical of this festive period a facelift. 这个农历新年，大众短信服务平台“微信”抢尽了风头——使节日的传统习俗焕然一新。 As technology has altered the way people in China carry out certain traditions during Chinese New Year, at no point is it clearer that Weixin, the version of WeChat available…
Expats living in China can have unrealistic expectations of what life here should be like, often based on rather warped memories of their home countries. (Whenever I’m frustrated by bureaucracy I think back to the American Department of Motor Vehicles and feel grateful that there’s no place like home.) We can also forget that living…
Why did Qu Yuan choose to drown himself in the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month? According to textual research by domestic experts, Qu Yuan did so to follow Emperor Shun. Emperor Shun is the god of the sun and the god of light for Chu people who worship Emperor Shun…
Casual gaming on computers and on phones like the iPhone is the biggest and most lucrative trend to hit the gaming market in years. In the past (and with a few notable exceptions like WoW) Western games haven’t really taken off in China, as Chinese gamers tend to prefer local products. But the same games…
Watch it you lunatic!! When you’re not freaking out about inhaling gallons of exhaust on China’s roadways, you’re dodging everything with wheels and spitting out phrases like the one above—with a liberal sprinkling of curses thrown in for good measure of course. You’re rickety, outdated road bike can hardly handle looming garbage trucks backing towards…
I provide the full list here for everyone – I hope you all find it useful. This can also be used as preparation for the IELTS speaking exam or even the HSK. A-Level (Beginner) A001 Nǐ jiào shénme míngzì? 你叫什么名字？ What’s your name? A002 Nǐ zài nǎr chūshēng de? 你在哪儿出生的？ Where were you born? A003…
Although a debate currently rages amongst Chinese academics, linguists and lexicographers over English’s place within the Chinese dictionary, English speakers all over the world continue to use bits and pieces of the Chinese language on a daily basis, through various phrases and loanwords previously “borrowed” from Chinese. Here are the top 10 Chinese phrases that…
Chinese civilization stretches back at least to the 3rd millennium BC. It is the source of many of the world’s great inventions, including paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing, not to mention china (porcelain) itself. But maybe the greatest contribution that the country and its language have made to the Western world is tea. The…