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How to Say I Love You in Mandarin Chinese

In my posts: My Favorite Chinese Love Poem (1) and My favorite Chinese Love Poem (2),  we appreciated two classic Chinese love poems.

 However, do you know how to say “I love you” in Mandarin Chinese?
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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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Parent Interview: Oliver Tu

As a parent myself, I know how important it is to have a support group and community while we raise bilingual kids.

As a Chinese teacher and parent, I keep looking for better ideas to help my kids and hopefully other kids learn Mandarin-Chinese in an effective and fun way.

With this purpose, I am going to interview people who have some good ideas and lessons to share.

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Blog Culture

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.