“Quietly I leave, as quietly as I came here.”
Each year thousands of Chinese tourists visit Cambridge, not to see the usual sites, but to pay homage to a poem they all had to learn by heart in school – Xu Zhimo’s ‘Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again’. Few non-Chinese speakers will have heard of it.
Chinese is very different from English and other IndoEuropean languages. First, while English questions often have ‘inverted’ word order from statements, Chinese questions have the same word order as statements. The particle ‘吗 (ma)’ can be added to any statement and convert it into a yes-no question. There is also a special type of question called the A-not-A question [9], which is formed with the main verb followed by negation ‘不 (bu)’ or ‘没 (mei)’ and the reduplicated verb. Listed below are examples of common types of questions in Mandarin Chinese:
Guangzhou (Canton), a prosperous metropolis full of vigor, is the capital city of Guangdong Province located along the south coastline of China. Being an excellent port on the Pearl River navigable to the South China Sea, and with fast accessibility to Hong Kong and Macau, the city serves as the political, economic, scientific, educational and cultural center in Guangdong area.
Here are the Five good reasons to learn Chinese:
1.China has the biggest population in the world—1.3 billion people.
2.If you speak English and Mandarin you can communicate with over half the world's population.
3.China is becoming an economic superpower.
4.The Chinese language is fascinating.
5.You get much more out of a visit to China if you can speak some Chinese.
Wu Wenying (1200-1260): to the tune "Winds between pine trees"
With well more than a billion speakers around the world, Chinese language, also known as Mandarin, is the most widely spoken language on earth. As China has grown in power over the past several decades, there has been a big push worldwide for foreigners to study Chinese.
2013 Dragon Boat Festival is the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar year is an important day for the Chinese people. Let's look at some useful and interesting Knowledge about 2013 Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival Legend
Singapore National Day 2013 firework show 9 August
The 50 films you must watch that made it into this list span throughout past 90 years, from 1922 to 2012, and offer a comprehensive view of the development of Chinese cinema.
The new HSKK test was launched by Hanban in an effort to better serve Chinese oral language learners. Here is HSKK exam time table in 2013.
