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How to say alligator, ant, anteater and armadillo in Chinese?

After three series of learning Chinese (how to call family members in Chinese, how to name body parts in Chinese and how to name vegetables and fruits in Chinese), the forth lesson series starts today: Lesson 4-Animals.

The animals in this series include wild and domestic animals, sorted alphabetically by common name. Today, I am going to teach you to say alligator, ant, anteater and armadillo in Chinese.
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tags , , , , , , | datetime August 19, 2010 7:29 pm | comments Comments (1)

Best4Future bilingual bookstore is under construction

Since June (I have an idea to open a Chinese bookstore online!), I have been working on building the online bilingual bookstore. I decided to call it an online “bilingual bookstore” rather than a “Chinese bookstore”, since I might add other language books and multimedia later, for an instance, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and etc.

The bookstore is supposed to be open on Monday, November 1 2010. My dear fellow-readers, welcome to shop with us during the grand-opening. With your support, more books for more languages will be available for parents who want to bring up babies bilingual. And I can continue to produce and develop more posts for the blog, including free Chinese language lessons. [......]

tags | datetime July 24, 2010 3:29 pm | comments Comments (0)

How to say tomato, watermelon, yam and zucchini in Chinese?

Since September 2009, once a week, I have been putting out a lesson on how to name vegetables and fruits in Chinese. Today’s lesson is the last episode of this series.

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tags , , , , , | datetime July 8, 2010 9:01 am | comments Comments (1)

How to help children learn Chinese characters? (Method 5)

Phono-semantic compound, also called semantic-phonetic compound or pictophonetic compound, is composed of two parts: one of a limited set of pictograms, often graphically simplified, which suggests the general meaning of the character, and an existing character pronounced approximately as the new target word.

Considering its size and close assocations among pictograms, ideograms and phono-semantic compounds, my forth advice would be children should use pictograms and ideograms as bases to understand and memorize phono-semantic compounds.

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tags | datetime June 25, 2010 7:03 pm | comments Comments (2)

Mickey Mouse speaks Chinese!

Do you know when Mickey Mouse was first introduced into China?

It was on October 26, 1986, Sunday. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, squeaking and squawking in Mandarin Chinese, made their debut of 104 half-hour episodes on China Central Television (CCTV), China’s state-owned TV station with exclusive nationwide broadcasting at that time. Since then, this animated character has become America’s most popular cultural ambassador to China.
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tags , | datetime June 17, 2010 3:11 pm | comments Comments (6)

How to say snow pea, spinach, sweet potato and strawberry in Chinese?

Spinach truly is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. Though low in calories, spinach contains high concentration of iron and calcium. It is extremely high in antioxidants, especially when fresh, steamed, or quickly boiled (see Get children eat vegetables: Spinach casserole with bacon and fresh [......]

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tags , , , , , | datetime June 11, 2010 3:34 pm | comments Comments (2)

I have an idea to open a Chinese bookstore online!

I want to share these wonderful Chinese learning resources with my worldwide readers. How about I open Chinese bookstore online and sell them via the Internet? I already have a blog. Now I just need to add a database-driven shopping cart onto the website.

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tags | datetime May 27, 2010 11:46 am | comments Comments (1)

How to help children learn Chinese characters? (Method 4)

Approximately 13% of the total Chinese characters are ideogrammic compounds, making it the second largest category. Considering the close assocations among pictograms, ideograms and ideogrammic compounds, my forth advice would be children should use pictograms and ideograms as bases to understand and memorize ideogrammic compounds.

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tags , | datetime May 21, 2010 3:39 pm | comments Comments (2)

How to say pumpkin, papaya, pineapple and plum in Chinese?

It looks like there are more vegetables and fruits starting with the letter p. Besides pea, potato, peach and pear, pumpkin, papaya, pineapple and plum all start with the letter p. Here is the tutorial on how to say pumpkin, papaya, pineapple and plum in Chinese. [......]

tags , , , , , | datetime May 13, 2010 12:51 pm | comments Comments (2)

How to help children learn Chinese characters? (Method 3)

According to the US State Department, Chinese ranks among the toughest languages in the world for English speakers, requiring 2200 hours of study for minimal proficiency.

Therefore, it makes perfect sense for learners to start with the simplest Chinese characters, for example, pictograms, which are stylised drawings of the objects they represent (see How to help children learn Chinese characters? (Method 2))

Besides pictograms, a lot of ideograms are the simplest Chinese characters. Also called simple indicatives or simple ideographs, ideograms express an abstract idea through an iconic form. They either modify existing pictographs iconically, or are direct iconic illustrations.
In another word, ideograms are more like graphical representations of abstract ideas. [......]

tags | datetime April 30, 2010 1:39 pm | comments Comments (4)