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Chinese Characters Word List for Christmas

In this post, we will learn some Chinese characters related with Christmas

Note: Characters from the first picture are mostly from the suggestion of a parent. Thank you, Grace.

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Halloween and Chinese Ghost Festival

Halloween (万圣节) (wan4 sheng4 jie2) is here. It is the happiest day for kids, at least for my kids.

When I just came to America, I didn’t understand why people are so happy on this day. It seems American people enjoy playing with anything related with ghost (鬼) (gui3) and death (死亡) (si3 wang2).

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How to Greet People in Mandarin-Chinese (II) ——How to Say Goodbye

If you read my post: How to greet people in Mandarin-Chinese (I) —— How to Say Hello, you might know how to greet Chinese people like a native speaker now.

In this post, I will continue talking about this topic to teach you how to say goodbye.

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Echo: A Writer and Wanderer

If you read my post:周璇 (Zhou1 Xuan2) and her songs, you might know a bit of this beautiful Chinese woman, an actor (演员) (yan3 yuan2) and singer (歌手) (ge1 shou3).

Today, I am going to talk about another beautiful Chinese woman Echo.

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Original Chinese English Bilingual Children’s Song: Colors of the Rainbow

In this post, I will talk about a song I wrote for the purpose of learning Mandarin-Chinese and English:  Colors of the Rainbow (彩虹的颜色).