Chinese speakers like me have been trained to understand the difference between 'aiyah' and 'aiyaah', and things left unsaid ...

Happy Lunar New Year! 2. Gong xi fa cai! 3. Wishing you luck, love, and health this Chinese New Year. 4. May the Lunar New Year bring you abundance. 5. May all your wishes come true this Chinese New ...

Episode 7: Chinese Slang Game Show In this episode, Jesse explores how the actual meaning of a Chinese word can be quite far removed from its literal English translation. Asia Society’s purpose is to ...

10 facts about Chinese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Chinese with audio.

The Chinese found more uses for their innovation. They made playing cards and paper money by stamping pictures and words onto paper (the first printing!). Paper money was called "flying money" because ...

Then, you will naturally need both the words you have just learned and those you learned a while ago. A study shows that for Chinese characters 1,500 is a threshold or turning point. After you can ...

While modern life pushes for simplification, these precise terms—from 'bak fu' to 'yi yi'—remind us that family relationships deserve more than one-size-fits-all labels.

Anyway, if it’s Ok with you all, I will envision that we are interested in the French word for “dog” (which is going to be easier as a language choice than picking a Chinese word ...