School values and slogans
Just across the basketball and tennis courts one can see this posted in big letters on the side of the student dormitory at NingMing High school. Read the full post ...
Category Archives: Mandarin
Slogans
The slogan across from the basketball and tennis courts reads: “Exercise the body, render service one’s motherland”. I am thinking of this in respect to seeing the huge basketball and tennis courts and ...
Free MP3s on Baidu to listen online and download
There is a large amount of music available on-line from the Chinese search engine giant Baidu.com a Chinese equivalent to Google. Once you search MP3 titles, artists or find the latest top 100, 200 or 500 song you can ...
Website for kaiji characters 解字の書き方
Kaiji (解字) characters are often used for carving one’s name on a stamp and used to sign documents. Here is a very useful website which allows you to enter the characters in Chinese or Japanese and the correspon...
Learn Mandarin
先下手為強(xian1 xia4 shou3 wei2 qiang2) this is the Chinese equivalent of the common English expression first come , first served. For more interesting expressions like this one go and check out one a dayfor on...
Taxi!
Although Mandarin Chinese is the largest dialect of the Chinese languages and most widely spoken, it is interesting to note that there are still linguistic differences between Taiwan mandarin and Mainland Chinese mandari...
Learn Chinese
I have been looking at Public Chinese for a while now and although it is more of a paid service they do offer free music, flash videos. If your Mandarin Chinese is not too basic then these MP3 and flash files might be w...
Chinese Etymology
I came across a couple of very good etymology sites yesterday one is a GPU opensource project of sourceforge. The Kanji Database Project kanji-database.sourceforge.net and the Chinese Etymology at internationalscientific...
Play on words 朱肉 (shuniku): Mandarin and Japanese
I go and buy a red ink pad (朱肉: shu niku) for my inkan. The characters are also read in Mandarin Chinese as zhu1 rou4 completely meaningless in Chinese but zhu1 rou4 sounds like 豚肉: zhu1 rou4(pork). (The 1 and 4 ...
Tang Dynasty poetry
Tang dynasty poetry read in the Yulin dialect. I have lost this transcript and I am looking for someone to write in the comments the Chinese. AudioPlayer.embed("pod_audio_1", {soundFile: "http%3A%2F%2Fwww....
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![Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.](http://www.irohaproject.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/koyomi/image/roku1.gif "Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.")
