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China – Untapped Potential and Promising Chengyu

By on May 6, 2013 in Essential Chengyu, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

Seems like lately, everybody wants to do business with the Far East. Whether it’s investing, running a business or just working in China, people are getting involved or talking about getting involved. As this CNN article suggests, despite the major cities like Beijing and Shanghai being completely saturated, there are still many potential and promising markets. Here’s [...]

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Starstruck Series: Robert Downey Suits Up as Ironman in China

By on April 25, 2013 in Culture and Society, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

Besides the suit, what else is Tony Stark? “Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.” Lighting up (or blowing up?) the theaters next Friday will be Ironman 3, starring Robert Downey Jr. He’s gained much popularity not only from being Ironman but Sherlock Holmes & other cool characters in some awesome movies. Robert Downey Jr. has a pretty [...]

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The Apple Suppliers’ Scramble Chinese Idiom

By on April 22, 2013 in Essential Chengyu, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

When the Iphone5 didn’t take China by storm, investors were disappointed to say the least. Because the stock didn’t grow in late December of 2012, Apple’s stock took a major 10% plunge.  This caused a lot of the major suppliers to scramble for marketshare elsewhere.  There’s a quick and easy way to describe how these [...]

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A New Way to Use FluentU: Decks

By on April 12, 2013 in Beginner Chinese, FluentU, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

As our library of authentic video content continues to grow here at FluentU, we’re always working to find new and more effective ways to connect you with that content and utilize it as effectively as possible. With that goal in mind, we’ve recently developed an entirely new way to access the content at FluentU – [...]

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Bottoms Up! The 21+ Drinks List in Chinese

By on April 3, 2013 in Chinese Vocab Word Lists, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

Well, at least in the States the drinking age is 21+, in other countries it’s a bit younger. Regardless, I figured it’s be useful to know how to say some of the most popular beverages in Chinese. Some of my favorites are mojitos and the cosmo. I’m not exactly savvy in ordering drinks in Chinese [...]

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Top 8 Words for Qingming Festival, the Tomb Sweeping Holiday in China

By on March 26, 2013 in Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

This year’s Qingming Festival (清明节 － qīng míng jié) falls on April 4th, 2013. For those of you unfamiliar with the 2,500 plus years of tradition behind this holiday, it’s all about tomb sweeping, spring outings and kite flying. Check out this video & you’ll learn more. What distinguishes this festival from the others is [...]

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Idiom for the Deceit in House of Flying Daggers

By on March 20, 2013 in Essential Chengyu, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

Besides the totally beautiful nature scenes and awesome martial arts, House of Flying Daggers is actually full of lots of lies and deceit. Who’s the better fox? Xiaomei (Zhang Ziyi) pretending to be the blind daughter of the leader of the Flying Daggers. Or Liu (Andy Lau) working undercover as a police captain when he’s actually part [...]

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You’ve Got Mail: Email Lingo You’ve Got To Master in Chinese

By on March 18, 2013 in Chinese Vocab Word Lists, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

Oh, email lingo. You write in all these business, formal terms like “we appreciate your understanding and apologize for the inconvenience.” Ever find yourselves scratching your head thinking, I wonder what’s the most professional way I need to put this? Well, fear not about what to write, I’ve made a list of all the common [...]

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New FluentU-Produced Videos: Perfect for Newbies

By on March 12, 2013 in Beginner Chinese, FluentU

Here at FluentU, we’re all about authentic content. Authentic content helps you learn language the way it’s actually spoken in the real world. However, we also know that authentic content, even when paired with an intelligent vocabulary learning system, is often times too difficult for brand new learners. To address this issue, we’ve started producing [...]

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Parched? Sip On Some Of This! – All The Drinks You’ll Need To Know in Chinese List

By on March 8, 2013 in Chinese Vocab Word Lists, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

We’ve all had that moment where we want to order something and can’t say what it is (whether it’s because we’re tongue tied or just don’t know how to say it) I remember being in China and really wanting to drink some jasmine tea but just couldn’t remember how to say “jasmine” in Chinese. Thankfully [...]

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