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Mandarin Chinese Children’s Poem: A Small Boat

In this post, we are going to learn a very famous Chinese children’s poem “A Small Boat” written by a well known Chinese educator, publisher and writer Ye, Shengtao 叶圣陶 ( yè shèng táo ).

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Let’s Learn Mulan’s Story in Mandarin Chinese (2) Mulan Went Back Home

In this post, we are going to learn the second part of Mulan poem. For the first part, please read the post: Let’s Learn Mulan’s Story in Mandarin Chinese (1) Mulan Joined the army.

From the first part of this poem, we learned the reason why Mulan joined the army and her hard life in the army. In the second part, we will learn Mulan’s life after she went back home. Let’s take a look.

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Let’s Learn Mulan’s Story in Mandarin Chinese (1) Mulan Joined the Army

I read an interesting news. Disney is planning to produce a live action Mulan movie. It is said Mulan will be played by a Chinese actress. Many people are very excited for this news.

To be honest, I am confused. Doesn’t it make sense that Mulan should be played by a Chinese considering Mulan was a Chinese?

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Chinese Tang Poem: On Youzhou Tower

In this post we are going to learn another famous Chinese Tang poem written by poet Cheng, Zi’ang.

As I mentioned in my former posts, learning Chinese classic works including Tang poems is a great way to learn Chinese characters as well as Chinese culture.

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Chinese Children’s Song——Row Row Row Your Boat

In my last post, we learned a well known Children’s song: Marry Had a Little Lamb.

In this post, we are going to learn another popular children’s song: 划小船. It is a Chinese version of the English kids’ song “Row Row Row Your Boat”.