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Tired of your job? Desperate for a change? Be careful: Spend too long toiling at a dead-end job and you might find the stench of your office hard to wash off. from the Sixth Tone on Facebook Office Stench https://www.facebook.com/sixthtone/posts/pfbid0H5fHP1LeofsGWAp1g6EHe5qDanLjyuoj5UVqh5ySpfYZScoVwJycSVyhfpXAP4frl How Rediscovering User Creativity Fueled China’s Short-Video Revolution Chinese entrepreneurs once dismissed user-generated content (UGC) as “industrial waste.” Now that waste is powering their global ambitions.
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See also Chinese slang words I'm not sure if these are of any interest, but if you hear anyone using any of them, you can say you heard it here! from the Sixth Tone Colorful Carp and Cheesy Pickup Lines: China’s Top Slang of 2018 The National Language Monitoring and Research Center has released its annual list of the memes that mattered in 2018.
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Mark Zuckerberg married a Chinese woman, said he had to learn Chinese so he could speak to his mother-in-law and wife's grandma! We are writing an article about " Being a Chinese teacher in the US" for our 2nd issue, looks like there will be growing need for Chinese teachers in the US?! 7 Famous People Who Surprised Us by Speaking Chinese When Mark Zuckerberg gave a Q&A in Mandarin Chinese, the Facebook founder left his audience of Beijing college students—and the rest of the world—stunned and impressed. http://time.com/3534248/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-chinese/ http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/5/29/1338306240071/Mark-Zuckerberg-and-Prisc-008.jpg ps. Sorry for being absent for a while. I have been traveling, 2 times to Detroit, 2 times to Chicago, my head just went exploded!! enough bad excuses... I want you guys to know I'm thinking about you!
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Most of us are aware of the many varieties of Chinese spoken within the country. Inhabitants of a region can talk with each other in a dialect which is unintelligible to someone who is not from that area. Even within the language families indicated on the map, there are smaller groups of mutually unintelligible languages. The language spoken in Yulin is 玉林话 Yùlín huà This article in the Sixth Tone talks about the decline of the Shanghainese dialect, due to factors including an influx of 40% migrants. The Life and Death of ShanghaineseLocal language in steady decline as city becomes more diverse and cosmopolitan.
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from CGTN on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=707038773274246
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I haven't watched this all the way through yet, but it looks interesting if you want to learn more about the Chinese language, including things that your Chinese better half may not know. From the Speak Hokien Campaign on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SpeakHokkienCampaign/videos/721360251394798/ 講福建話運動 Speak Hokkien Campaign 方言的e言 The Great Dialect Deception
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from Inkstone "Chinese social media loses its mind after China’s high school team is defeated and ranked sixth in an international math competition. Americans took the gold." A high school contest loss leaves China wondering if it can do math
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from the SCMP The Chinese Bible: how it was translated, and the phrases it introduced to the Chinese languageWhen Christians produced a definitive Mandarin translation of the Bible, the Chinese Union Version, they consulted ancient Greek texts as well as editions in EnglishTheir translations of metaphors and allegories introduced to China phrases such as sacrificial lamb and a tooth for a tooth whose biblical origins are forgotten today
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from the Sixth Tone What Men’s Bathroom Graffiti Says About Chinese MasculinityPublic restrooms offer a canvas for young Chinese men to work through their sexual frustrations and anxieties.
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in the Sixth Tone Hip-Hop Gives Chinese Dialects Fresh Expression Well-versed in dozens of dialects, Chinese rap is breaking free of Mandarin.
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Hello every friend! How is everyone doing? It's been almost four years since I became a member on CFL. I truly love our forum. After I become an ESL teacher for Tulsa Public Schools, I'm more and more frustrated with my own English accent or English pronunciation. As an English teacher, I have to be a living dictionary standing in the classroom. It's a requirement of myself and from myself. Yesterday I taught Spanish-speaking children second grade math. I only taught them simple addition. But these children are so hard to teach. It seems they will never learn. Some of them don't know how to count and don't know what equals five plus three. They have their main teacher to learn from. I observed their learning and teaching many times. Yesterday I taught a group of children. The other teacher taught a group of kids. We taught in one room. This is the least that I like American classroom. The teachers often separate the kids into several groups in one room. Some go on the computer to learn. Some sit on the floor learning things by playing games. Some are drawn to the teacher who is teaching something else. All these groups are doing their own business at the same time in one room. How can they focus on learning? My voice is too weak. I only keep my own reservations. When I can't make the kids learn, I'm very frustrated. I thought I could be the best teacher but now I know that I have to practice speaking Okie English perfectly. But I can't! No matter how hard I tried. I can't speak English the way you guys do. What shall I do? I'm so frustrated!!! Thank you for being my friends, everyone! I would like to use my story to entertain you guys for a happy three days! Catherine
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in the SCMP China taking on Wikipedia with its own online encyclopaedia More than 20,000 scholars involved in country’s biggest publication project In the Shanghaiist - http://shanghaiist.com/2017/05/02/china-wikipedia.php
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I bought a year of lessons at this site and it is pretty good. She also posts freebies that teach a little language in the context of learning about culture and include inline audio samples. I notice that the Chinese character pastes into the mini editor but is gone when I select "publish post": http://www.yoyochinese.com/blog/Learn-Chinese-Slang-Modern-Chinese-Useful-Words Chinese Slang Words Guaranteed to Impress Your Chinese Friends! One of the toughest things about learning a new language is becoming familiar with the local slang. This is particularly true in China, where (wng mn) - netizens love to come up with new, entertaining slang terms that confuse foreigners (and older Chinese!). 1. Ի(ch hu) C Foodie When I first joined (wi xn) C WeChat (Chinas Facebook) I was puzzled to discover that about half of the pictures my friends posted were of food. Often, these pictures were accompanied by the tag Ի(w sh ch hu) C Im a Ի(ch hu) . It turns out Ի(ch hu) means someone who is passionate about food and loves trying out new dishes C i.e. a foodie. And lots of Chinese people like to label themselves Ի(ch hu) , posting pictures of food theyve cooked and eaten on social media for other Ի(ch hu) to appreciate. As a food-lover myself, I quickly joined in C now whenever I go out to eat Ill spend a few minutes snapping pictures of whatever delicious dishes Im eating to share online with my Ի(ch hu) friends.
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