Tag: Chinese

Iwonder if people in the world concern about “Sense & Sensibility” becoming “Sense & Alkalinity” someday. Why is it possible? It is because of the existence of Mr.Close-enough and Ms. Close-enough! Sense & Sensibility is a masterpiece written by&...

The Voice Entertainment Group, a Hong Kong record label, talent agency and publisher of pop music, has another production with a Cantonese Chinese name related to Sense & Sensibility (?????????????????????, Rationality & Sensibility). Of course, Sandy Chang Mei Yin (?????????) is one of...

Quality is very important for language learning programs. If there are any significant mistakes found, then the credibility of their whole catalog would be called into question. Also, just imagine visiting China and finding out that the Chinese you learned were not accurate. I would be both embarras...

If there’s one takeaway from this 5-minute article, it’s that you are made aware of Yabla Chinese. Yabla is similar to the slow stories on Mandarin Corner, but instead of telling stories or folktales, it focuses mainly on conversations and interviews. You can rewind and slow down wh...

This is a phrase I frequently use with my elders during Chinese New Year. It literally means, “I can understand, but I can’t speak,” — a phrase I often use to describe my Cantonese proficiency, or rather, lack thereof. Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Teochew — are just so...

You hate failure, I hate failure, we all hate failure. Or rather, what we hate is the FEELING that failure brings us. It makes you feel like a loser, makes you want to crawl under a rock and hide for a jillion years. But what if you looked at failure from another direction? Failure isn&r...

Have you ever heard of a “tiger mom”? It’s the term for a style of strict Asian parenting that goes so far that some people claim this form of parenting is harsh and abusive. But “tiger mom” as a Chinese term, is about as Chinese as fortune cookies. That is to ...