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My Favorite Chinese Love Poem (1) The Yangtze Love

Valentine’s day (情人节) (qing2 ren2 jie2) is around. I smell the love in the air.

In this post, I will share one of my favorite Chinese love poems with you, at the same time, as usual, we will learn some Chinese characters.

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The Best Way to Learn Mandarin Chinese

I found something interesting. When people search online about Mandarin Chinese learning, ” the best way to learn Chinese” ranks very high.

In this post, I try to answer this question based on my own knowledge. I am sure every one has his own answer.

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Chinese Children’s Song: Happy New Year

Like every one, I have my own new year resolution (新年决心) (xin1 nian2 jue2 xin1).

By the way, in Chinese, we usually say: new year wish (愿望) (yuan4 wang4), new year plan (计划) (ji4 hua4) or new year goal (目标) (mu4 biao1).

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English, Pinyin or Chinese Characters

If you read my former posts: Basic Rules for Reading Chinese Characters, you might get some ideas about how to guess the meaning of one character by reading its radical.

In this post, I will talk about which way is good to read out the Chinese character.

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Chinese Song Happy Birthday

I will teach you this simple but beautiful song: happy birthday to you(祝你生日快乐)(zhu4 ni3 sheng1 ri4 kuai4 le4) in Mandarin-Chinese.

Next time, you can sing this beautiful song in both English and Mandarin-Chinese at your family or friend’s birthday party.