All You Want to Know about Li Ziqi (李子柒)
Who is Li Ziqi Li Ziqi’s short biography: Nationality: Chinese Native name: 李子柒 （Lǐ Zǐqī） Born: July 6, 1990 (age 29) Occupation: Chinesefood and country-life vlogger Keywords: #Orphan #DJ #vlogger…
Learning Through the Screen: How Chinese TV can Become Your Chinese Teacher
No matter how much I love learning Chinese, studying from a textbook can start to get boring after awhile. While the textbook’s explanations are clear, sometimes I just need to…
How to Properly Address People You Meet in China
If you’re learning Chinese as a second language, you probably already know the words 老师( lǎoshī), 先生( xiānsheng), 女士( nǚshì), and 小姐( xiǎojiě) because they are commonly taught in introductory…
A Handy and Practical Survival guide to Visiting China
Are you one of those people who has been studying Mandarin for some time now, but the only Chinese person you know is your teacher? Why not visit China and…
13 Commonly Used Chinese Idioms With NUMBERS
In this article, we are going to explore some special Chinese idioms or figures of speech that involve numbers. Numbers can be used to express a lot of things, not…
Chinese New Year Traditions and 6 New Year Greetings for the Year of the Pig
Happy Chinese New Year! It’s now the year of the pig! As the zodiac cycle repeats every 12 years, if you were born within the Chinese Calendar year starting in…
You’ll never learn this from textbooks: The Latest Chinese Buzzwords Collection
From textbooks, you can learn proper grammar, regular words and vocabulary, as well as sentence structure. You can also learn simple and ordinary conversations and dialogue. But what you can’t…
Chinese Idioms and Slangs Derived from Animals (Part 2)
In Part 1 of Chinese idioms and slangs, we talked about the 龙（dragon） and the 凤（phoenix, two animals that are traditional symbols of Chinese culture. But of course, they are…
Chinese Idioms & Slangs Derived from Animals (Part 1)
Animals have always been an indispensable part of the Chinese people’s daily lives. Naturally, many Chinese words reflect the close relationship between animals and the Chinese people. For example, in…