During the traditional Chinese New Year, the firecrackers are the necessary thing to make the festival more enjoyable and exciting. The most spectacle can be seen at 0 o’clock of the 1st day of the lunar January. When the clock strikes 12, it announces the arrival of a new year. Exactly at 0 o’clock—the first […]
Chinese embroidered shoes are reputed as “Chinese shoes” as they are characteristic of Chinese culture and elements. In the Spring and Warrior States periods dating back more than 600 years, the capital of Jin was located in Shanxi Province. In 606 BC when Jin Xiangong became the monarch, he set out to expand the territory, […]
In ancient times, Chinese people had a tendency of preferring boys rather than girls. And they think boys should be the person to learn, to work and to do some important thing, while girls should stay at home and learn to look after the family, do some embroidering and making clothes such kind of things. […]
In a traditional Chinese marriage, the teasing games are a very interesting part. After the groom took the bride home and passed some of the fixed ceremonial procedures, the bride will be sent back to the room. After the great feast and the night falls, all the young men who haven’t married can come into […]
The Formation of Chinese Characters Chinese characters were created in accordance with a certain model or prescribled patterns. In China’s first dictionary, “shuowen jiezi” (“Explaining and Analyzing Chinese Characters”), there were character-formation methods. Chinese characters can be classified into four main categories: pictographic characters, self-explanatory characters, associative compounds and pictophoentic characters. 1. Pictographic Characters Many […]
If you have studied Chinese or are studying Chinese now, you may have heard of “Self-explanatory Characters” when learning Chinese characters. The pictographic character for knife is “刀” (dao), isn’t it look like a big knife? So in order to obtain the character “刃” (ren, “blade”), all we need to do is to add a […]
Are you studying Chinese? There are many rules for Chinese learners to memorize the Chinese characters. In Chinese, two “人” (ren, “people”) characters written together gives us the character “从” (cong), which depicts one person walking behind another and means “to follow”. When three “人” characters are written together, we get the character “众”(zhong, “many […]
The individual components of associative compounds represent meaning. In the pictophonetic characters, some components represent the character’s meaning and others represent its pronunciation. For example, “财(cai)”, “帐(zhang)”, “货(huo)” all have the character “贝” (bei) and all have meanings related to money. Actually, “贝” (bei) means “shell”, and in ancient China, people used shells as money. […]
When it is time for the traditional Chinese Spring Festival in each year, China will experience of the “spring transportation” and the “shopping booming”. The reunion dinner contributes part of these. As the New Year is great time for family reunion, and there is usually a reunion dinner for members of the family, no matter […]
The ancient Chinese incorporated their observations and awareness of nature into the shapes of Chinese characters. Learn Chinese: 日(“ri”, the sun) The archaic character for “日” resembles the shape of the sun. the small dot in the middle indicates that the sun is a luminous body—⊙. In ancient China, there was a story called “Houyi […]
Jeg havde virkelig en vidunderlig oplevelse på skolen. Lærerne er meget, meget venlige. I min klasse øver vi os i at tale, lytte, læse og skrive. Vi spiller spil og andre sjove aktiviteter. Vi tager på ture rundt i byen. Personalet på Keats er fænomenalt. Min lærer er en af de bedste lærere, jeg nogensinde har haft i min uddannelse. Hun kommer ind med et smil hver dag.
Lærerne på Keats ved, hvordan man læser elevernes tanker og hjælper dem med at lære kinesisk sprog nemt. De kender elevernes niveau. Jeg er langsom til at lære, men de formåede at tilpasse sig min læring. De gjorde undervisningen meget sjov og spændende. Jeg er glad for, at jeg ikke kun fik lov til at lære kulturen og sproget at kende, men at jeg også fik fantastiske venner, virkelig utrolige, kinesiske venner og europæiske venner, amerikanske venner, fra hele verden.
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.
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.
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 anden gang, jeg kommer. Sidste år var jeg også her i omkring 12 uger. Denne gang var jeg her i 13 uger som en del af et sommerprogram i Kina. Grunden til, at jeg især gerne vil komme på denne skole, var på grund af den individuelle undervisning. Jeg var i stand til at forbedre mit niveau og lære kinesisk hurtigere end i gruppetimer. Hvis jeg får chancen igen næste år, vil jeg helt sikkert gøre det.
Min skole er fantastisk. Jeg anbefaler Keats School, fordi det er en mere bekvem måde at lære kinesisk på i Kunming.
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!