Blog Tag - Mandarin Monday
Mandarin Monday is a regular series where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing fun and practical phrases and characters.
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Mandarin Monday is a regular series where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing fun and practical phrases and characters.
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Mandarin Monday is a regular series where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing fun and practical phrases and characters.
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Mandarin Monday is a regular series where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing fun and practical phrases and characters.
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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...
Mandarin Monday is a regular series where we help you improve your Chinese by detailing fun and practical phrases and characters.
Unless you’ve...
In our first Mandarin Monday of 2025 we're going to take a look back at the top ten Chinese buzzwords from last year. Each year, a selection of...
When it comes to talking about sex, the Chinese language doesn’t hold back on creativity. From playful phrases to poetic metaphors, there's a whole...
If there’s one fun way to learn Chinese, it’s with tongue twisters and poems. This is especially true for ones using similar sounding words with...
We’ve already taken a look at some of the best places in Beijing you can go to view autumn leaves, but what about talking about autumn leaves and...
A couple of weeks ago, when delving into the history of the word hutong, we realized that there are many words for street in Chinese – with some...
![Mandarin Monday: A History of the Word "Hutong"](https://www.thebeijinger.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/385889/wechat_image_20240819114438.jpg "Mandarin Monday: A History of the Word "Hutong"")
Ever wondered why hutongs are called hutongs, and not, just plain old alley or lane? Well, if any 胡同串子 hútong chuànzi (hutong wanderer) among you...
Some of us local Chinese and grizzled expat veterans of many a Mandarin class forget that a significant portion of the expat population recognizes...
Our Taco Fest 2024 is just under two weeks away and so what better time to brush up on some essential taco related vocab! We’ll be taking a look at...
English has long padded out its vocabulary by adopting so-called "loan words" from other languages, or as fiction reviewer James Nicoll put it, our...
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