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Let’s Sing & Learn Colors in Mandarin Chinese

In this post, we are going to learn colors in Mandarin Chinese. Since I believe in learning should be fun, so I created some songs to help kids and beginners learn Mandarin Chinese in a meaningful fun way.

This color song is one of them. I created this song using the tone of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” to teach kids and beginners eleven colors and some other common words and sentences.

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Mandarin Chinese Tongue Twister: Four and Ten

In this post, I am going to challenge you to read a famous Mandarin Chinese tongue twister: Four and Ten.

It is said, if you wish to become a broadcaster, you have to past the test to read some tongue twisters.

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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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Li Yu: A Tragic King and Talented Poet

In this post, I am going to talk about another famous Chinese person: 李煜 ( lǐ yù ), who was born to be a king but he was a great poet instead.