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How To Describe China Holiday Insanity

By on October 1, 2012 in Essential Chengyu, FluentU, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

1.3 BILLION people on holiday. Can you imagine the insanity? Pushing, shoving, line cutting, invasion of personal space, and that rush to snag an empty seat. The traffic forecast for Beijing: congestion index of 9.5. In English?  With a 100% chance for bumper to bumper traffic, Beijing might as well turn into a temporary car [...]

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Top Chengyus to Describe FluentU Launch!

By on September 5, 2012 in Essential Chengyu, FluentU, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

If you are currently reading this, no doubt you have already signed up for FluentU beta (and if not, then stop reading and go!) After months of humbly blogging away while quietly designing and building our buttery-smooth video engine featuring the web’s best authentic Chinese content, it has been a hectic few weeks welcoming hundreds of [...]

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Chengyus for NBA Champion Lebron James

By on June 28, 2012 in Essential Chengyu, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese

Lebron James and the Miami Heat won the NBA Championship. We’re guessing Lebron currently has other priorities outside of studying Chinese.  We don’t! Let’s  look today at three chengyu’s which are especially pertinent to Lebron as he celebrates his first ring. 1. 坚持不懈 (jiān chí bù xiè ) 坚持 (jiān chí): persevere, persist 不 (bù): not 懈 (xiè): careless, casual [...]

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