In China, various customs are associated with the quality of fertility as symbolized by dragons. In Hunan and Hubei provinces, women wanting to be pregnant will let the dragon circulate their bodies and give money or gift to the dragon dance team as reward. A boy is placed on the back of the dragon and […]
The earliest Chinese writing system that has been preserved to the present day is the oracle bone inscriptions, which dates back 3,000 years to China’s Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC). The ancient Chinese people believed that both nature and human affairs were governed by a kind of mystical force. As a result, divination was commonly used […]
In China, there are “four famous buildings”: Yueyang Tower, Tengwang Pavilion, Yellow Crane Tower and Penglai Pavilion. Yellow Crane Tower is said to be 1,800 years old. According to legend, it was once a tavern. One day, a Taoist priest visited the tavern. The tavern’s hostess treated him to 1,000 cups of liquor. In order […]
In the past, there was once a pagoda called the Leifeng Pagoda, situated on the shore of the beautiful West Lake (in Hangzhou, Jiangsu Province). According to legend, over 700 years ago, there was once a whit snake that was transformed into a beautiful woman named Bai Niangzi (also known as Madam White Snake), who […]
Chinese characters that represent numbers also have their own special meanings. One (yi, “一”) The Chinese people believe that “one” (“一”) represents the beginning of everything. The famous ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi once said that, in the beginning of the universe, “’dao’ created one”. “One” here refers to the chaotic state that existed before anything […]
Chinese characters that represent numbers also have their own special meanings. Two (er, “two”) As we know, the Chinese people believe that everything in the universe possesses two properties: “yin” and “yang”. Laozi also said: “one created two”. This means that the primeval “one” possessed the properties of both “yin” and “yang”. Because the Chinese […]
Three (san, “三”) The Chinese people believe the number “three” is a mystical number. Laozi once said, “Two created three; three created all things”. The world thus had “yin” and “yang”. Later, changes in “yin” and “yang” produced a great many new things. Therefore, the number “three” can represent “many”. According to legend, the beginning […]
Four (si, “四”) It is interesting that the Chinese character for “four” was originally written in 4 horizontal lines, like “one two three”. Only later it was written in this way—“四”. Comparatively speaking, the number “four” is a relatively unpopular number for the Chinese people. For example, the number “four” is often avoided (and replaced […]
Five (wu, “五”) The ancient Chinese people believed that the world was composed of five basic substances: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. These five substances are known as the Five Elements (“wu xing”). The Five Elements can represent everything. For example, the Five Elements can represent the five basic directions: east, south, west, north […]
In the ancient times, the Chinese people are quite pride of their hundreds of surnames. However, recently, with the publication of “Dictionary of Chinese Surnames”, there are more than twenty thousand Chinese characters for surnames. The exact number is 23,813. The simplest surname is the surname comes from Lisu people—“一” (yi, means one) and the […]
De er virkelig interesserede i, hvad vores interesser er, hvilke spørgsmål vi har, og hvilke krav vi har. Så tilpasser de indholdet af vores kinesiske sprogprogram efter situationen. Én lærer og én elev, så det er nemt at holde fokus i de 6 timers fordybelseslektioner i mandarin. Det er meget bekvemt at studere, bo og spise i én bygning.
Mine lærere er alle fremragende. De har uddannet dem så professionelt. Jeg synes, jeg lærer meget hurtigt med min lærer. De tager deres elever meget alvorligt, og jeg ved, at alle lærere er sådan. Jeg vil varmt anbefale, at du kommer til Keats, hvis du leder efter den bedste kinesiske skole i Kina.
Det er meget behageligt at studere på Keats. Lærerne er meget venlige. Jeg byder dig velkommen til at komme og studere kinesisk i Kina på Keats.
Så i løbet af min første uge på Keats turde jeg ikke tale nogen kinesiske ord. Jeg fandt ud af, at mit kinesiske niveau hurtigt var blevet bedre siden da. Selvom jeg har mange muligheder for at studere i Kina, for eksempel tilbyder nogle andre skoler homestay, opdagede jeg, at jeg kunne fordybe mig og fuldt ud fokusere på at lære kinesisk ved at bo på Keats.
Mit navn er Sarah Fish. Jeg er 81. Jeg kendte meget lidt kinesisk, da jeg ankom. Hvordan skulle jeg overleve 2 ugers intensivt kinesiskkursus? Jeg må grine, når jeg tænker på det nu. Sikke en positiv oplevelse det har været! Jeg ville virkelig ønske, vi kunne være her lidt længere. Lærerne er ekstremt opmuntrende, de vurderer først, hvor meget man ved, og starter derefter derfra.
På Keats har jeg mange muligheder for at øve mig i det, jeg har lært. Jeg kan virkelig godt lide denne skole, fordi jeg kan lære kinesisk én-til-én, så jeg synes, det er det bedste immersionsprogram i Kina, og min lærer er den bedste lærer. Jeg føler, at uden min lærer ville mit kinesisk bestemt ikke blive bedre så meget. Jeg er meget glad, for på Keats har jeg forbedret mit kinesisk betydeligt.
Jeg synes, Kunming er en fantastisk by, vejret er rigtig godt. Jeg kan virkelig godt lide Keats skole og synes, den er meget organiseret. Lærerne her er meget dygtige. De har en café og nye klasseværelser, et nyt loungeområde her nu, så du kan slappe af med dine venner og øve dit talte kinesisk med indfødte. Hvis du overvejer at komme til Keats for at studere, vil jeg virkelig anbefale det. Det er det bedste sted at lære mandarin, og jeg tror, det vil være en fantastisk oplevelse for dig.
Kunming er et fantastisk sted at lære kinesisk i Kina, fordi der ikke er mange kinesere på gaden, der taler engelsk. Keats har været en fantastisk skole for mig, og mange andre udlændinge, der har studeret i Kina, anbefalede det til mig. Jeg synes, de er helt okay. Studiemetoden her er virkelig struktureret. De gør det virkelig nemt at lære kinesisk. Der er også mange kulturelle og naturlige steder at besøge.