Blog Tag - Language
Do you hear that? It's the sound of Chinese New Year knocking at the door, which means it's time to dust off your well-wishes and polite phrases...
If meeting someone's family for the first time wasn't intimidating enough, here in China you also have to navigate the minefield of kinship terms....
Ubiquitous. Delicious. Not entirely nutritious. You can find them on the street in Beijing and Brooklyn. They are a staple of both morning commuters...
If you thought learning Chinese is already hard enough, the advent of the internet and the interconnectivity that it allows has spurred the sharing...
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends.
As the...
Ah, it’s the dawn of another new year and so many possibilities await. This is your time. You’ll get fit. You’ll read more books. You’ll definitely...
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing learning tips, fun and practical phrases, and trends.
The...
"What do you call somebody from Xi'an? Xi'anian? Xi'aner? Xi'anese?"
None of the above, apparently, as I recently learned while writing a blog...
Striking up a conversation with a complete stranger can be awkward, nerve-wracking, and especially challenging when it's with someone who doesn't...
In this week's Throwback Thursday, we take a special look back at one of the earliest columns from long-time contributor and general man-about-town...
![Mandarin Monday: China's Newest Favorite Word Means "Dirt-Poor and Ugly"](https://www.thebeijinger.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/313215/qiourepeat2.jpg "Mandarin Monday: China's Newest Favorite Word Means "Dirt-Poor and Ugly"")
Get your duang out of here, Jackie Chan, there's a new made-up character taking the internet by storm. Swaths of Weibo users are currently gunning...
WeChat recently released a slew of updates, including a few major changes. China’s most popular social platform started its global expansion a long...
Going to the bank in China can be very intimidating if you don’t speak Mandarin. When it comes to your finances, you’d probably want to know every...
With beer drinkers, the taste and quality of a beer carry significant weight when deciding if you do indeed like a beer or not, and an interesting...
Hot (literally) on the heels of three days of rain, June 25 was graced by blue skies, and not even a sweltering sun could deter 200 attendees from...