感覺 gǎn jué Feeling
Fen: Will you be too resolved to ignore May? Fong: She is sometimes mean? Fen: Are there misunderstandings? Can this be resolved if talk calmly? Fong: I can talk. Is…
香港的兒童節 xiāng gǎng de ér tóng jié Hong Kong’s Children’s Day
4 April is Hong Kong’s Children’s Day. Parents will buy small presents to kids. Sometimes we will add ‘r’ when speaking Mandarin by rolling up your tongue at the end…
買公寓mǎi gōng yù Buying Apartment
Agent: This apartment is hard to come by. Customer: But in this district… Agent: People living in the area are generally rich! Customer: My main concern is my kids’ education……
面霜 miàn shuāng Face Cream
Mum of Fen: You haven’t put make up today, have you? Mum of Fong: I didn’t. What’s up? Pimples on my face? Mum of Fen: You look oily today… Mum…
變調 biàn diào Variation in Pitches
There are four pitches in Mandarin and there is variation in pitches under a special condition. What does that mean? When there are two consecutive words of the third pitch,…
矛盾 máo dùn Disagreement
If colleagues cannot agree with each other, it is worthy of slowing down and have a discussion. This provokes smoother subsequent cooperation. zài gōng zuò shàng rú guǒ gēn tóng…
農曆新年 nóng lì xīn nián Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year this year is on 12 February. We will say auspicious greetings to each other during Chinese New Year, like wishing you prosperous and healthy etc. On the…
博物館 bó wù guǎn Museum
We visited a museum but found the arrangement there out of order. Actually visiting hours should be divided into timeslots. We believed that the museum should change to another management…
’一’ 的變調 ’yī ’ de biàn diào Variation in Pitch of ‘One’
Today is 1st of January, let us talk about variation in pitch of ‘one’. One is pronounced as first pitch when counting numbers. It is pronounced as second pitch when…
圖像化學習 tú xiàng huà xué xí Pictorial Learning
One way to learn Mandarin is to learn its phonetics, namely Pinyin. People may ask why Pinyin. Pinyin helps to provoke interest on the language. It also facilitates lasting memory…