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 […]
Jeg synes, Keats er en af de bedste sprogskoler, jeg nogensinde har været på. Min lærer er sådan en fantastisk person. Hun er så god til at undervise. Hun gør timerne sjove. Jeg har lært en masse ordforråd i løbet af min tid her. Jeg vil virkelig anbefale at komme og lære mandarin-kinesisk på Keats School.
Jeg er kandidatstuderende og arbejder på min doktorgrad på Columbia University. Vi har virkelig kunnet fokusere på at tale, især interview-lignende tale, og vi har virkelig forbedret mine kinesiske læse- og skrivefærdigheder, så når jeg kommer tilbage til Columbia, kan jeg tage formelle kinesiskkurser. Det har været en rigtig god oplevelse, og jeg elsker virkelig min lærer.
Jeg har haft en fantastisk tid på Keats. Jeg er forbløffet over, hvor meget jeg har lært i løbet af de sidste 3 uger, og jeg vil være virkelig ked af at skulle afsted. Vi planlægger allerede vores næste tur tilbage, fordi vi havde en så fantastisk tid her. De skræddersyr virkelig det kinesiske sprogkursus til dig og dine individuelle behov.
Min skole er fantastisk. Jeg anbefaler Keats School, fordi det er en mere bekvem måde at lære kinesisk på i Kunming.
Det har været bemærkelsesværdigt, fordi jeg har mødt mange mennesker, som jeg mødte første gang sidste år, og som gerne vil vende tilbage til Keats i år. Undervisningen har været fantastisk. Lærerne forbereder omhyggeligt hver lektion. Jeg synes, at denne en-til-en-tilgang er en rigtig god måde hurtigt at forbedre dit niveau i kinesisk og øge din selvtillid og flydende sprogfærdigheder.
Jeg nyder virkelig at studere kinesisk i Kunming på Keats. Lærerne er fantastiske, og mine klassekammerater er fantastiske. Det er en uforglemmelig oplevelse for mig. Jeg fik også mulighed for at rejse til andre steder i Yunnan. Disse steder er fantastiske, og du skal helt sikkert besøge disse steder, når du studerer kinesisk i Kina på Keats.
Det er ligegyldigt, hvilket niveau du har i kinesisk, eller du kan starte helt fra niveau nul. Din lærer vil forberede lektionerne efter dine behov. Fordelen ved at bo på skolen er, at du får din egen undervisning, du har din egen indkvartering med dit eget badeværelse og alle måltider inkluderet. Jeg kan varmt anbefale alle at tage hele pakken, fordi du får mulighed for at møde andre studerende.
Alle mine klassekammerater bliver sammen i et år, og vi har forbedret os så meget! Lærerne på Keats er alle rigtig fantastiske. De kan lide at organisere en masse aktiviteter for at hjælpe os med at lære kinesisk. Jeg kan godt lide Keats! Jeg kan godt lide Kunming!