The Mid-Autumn Festival(Zhongqiujie) known as the Moon Festival , the third and last festival for the living, was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox.This day was also considered a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been...

Would you like to travel China while staying at Chinese homes? Do you want to rapidly improve your Chinese by putting yourself into a real native environment? Eastwestbridge can provide you with a program tailored to fit your needs: homestay service, combined with a self-arranged trip, and/or...

Tom is learning Chinese language in school and want to learn Japanese as he watch anime a lot and listen to Japanese music often and would like to understand it without a translation..He know the characters and tones different, but does taking a similar looking/sounding language help? Firstly...

Some Chinese language beginners often ask how many basic characters should master in Chinese language. Actually, it depends on your demand. You’d like to speak, or writing, or reading. To speak Chinese is very different from what you will read in newspaper. The number of characters looks not so...

My one student(boy) was always curious as to how to tell someone(girl) that she looks  pretty or beautiful in Chinese.Here is the useful expression :1.you are pretty. 你很漂亮 ni hen piao liang.2.you are so cute 你很可爱 ni hen ke ai3.you are beautiful ...

According to Xinhua news, Chinese Foreign Ministry Web site, recently, the Chinese ambassador in France, Kong Quan, invited to the French Ministry of Education as a guest by Bellassen, the two sides talked about tea, with emphasis on the history of development of Chinese language teaching in...

XinhuaNet Shanghai November 16th : U.S. President Barack Obama took a speech at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Nov 16th. In his speech, Obama said, the best ambassadors, the best messenger is young man, this is the next step in cooperation to benefit both countries and the...

The Chinese lunar calendar is very important on agriculture,ceremony,Chinese festival,wedding,etc for Chinese people. It is not special to belong to China, but followed by greater other Asian countries. It is often referred to as the Chinese lunar calendar because it was first perfected by the...

The Duanwu Festival(端午節duān wǔ jié) is one of the most important festival in China. It (also known as Dragon Boat Festival) is a traditional and formal holiday related to Chinese cultures, which it is celebrated in other East Asian and Southeast Asian societies as well. It is a public...

If you want to input Chinese Pinyin and Chinese characters in your computer, now, I will strongly recommend "Google Chinese Pinyin Input Method" which launched by Google. After installed, to shift your input method to Google Pinyin. Then just wag your fingers to type Chinese characters by Pinyin....