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 […]
Listening and speaking in the classroom every day has improved my communication skills. After three weeks, my new words and sentences became more and more natural and fluent. Now I am used to thinking in Chinese, and I understand better what other people say, to be able to have real conversations with other people.
Det beste med skolen er tålmodigheten instruktørene hadde og tiden de hadde til å fokusere på det grunnleggende som uttale. Jeg tror det er veldig lett å hoppe over disse og gå over til vokabular. Men ved å lære uttalen føler jeg at det hjalp meg å få en bedre forståelse av språket.
Så i løpet av den første uken min på Keats turte jeg ikke å snakke noen kinesiske ord. Jeg fant ut at kinesisknivået mitt raskt hadde blitt bedre siden den gang. Selv om jeg har mange muligheter til å studere i Kina, for eksempel tilbyr noen andre skoler vertsfamilier, fant jeg ut at jeg kunne fordype meg og fokusere fullt ut på å lære kinesisk ved å bo på Keats.
På Keats har jeg mange muligheter til å praktisere det jeg har lært. Jeg liker denne skolen veldig godt, fordi jeg kan lære kinesisk én-til-én, så jeg synes dette er det beste fordypningsprogrammet i Kina, og læreren min er den beste læreren. Jeg føler at uten læreren min ville ikke kinesiskkunnskapene mine blitt så mye bedre. Jeg er veldig glad, for på Keats har jeg forbedret kinesiskkunnskapene mine betraktelig.
Jeg har studert ved Keats i to semestre. Jeg anbefaler Keats School på det sterkeste. Hvis du er veldig interessert i å ta et mandarinkurs i Kina, vil jeg foreslå at du kommer til Kunming. Folket i Kunming er veldig vennlige. Været i Kunming er flott. Så jeg anbefaler at du studerer kinesisk ved Keats i Kunming.
Stedet er veldig kult. Jeg er sammen med en flott gruppe mennesker i klassen min, så det er veldig hyggelig å komme på timene. Det er gøy, vi har mange diskusjoner, spill og aktiviteter. Lærerne våre er også veldig flinke og veldig støttende. Å lære kinesisk er skremmende i starten fordi du har så mange spørsmål. Men jeg vil anbefale å komme til Keats fordi atmosfæren for læring er flott. Det er veldig avslappende. Jeg vil anbefale skolen.
Alle klassekameratene mine ble sammen i ett år, og vi har blitt så mye bedre! Lærerne på Keats er alle veldig flinke. De liker å organisere mange aktiviteter for å hjelpe oss med å lære kinesisk. Jeg liker Keats! Jeg liker Kunming!
Jeg har hatt det kjempefint her. Jeg har studert mye med læreren min, som var fantastisk. Keats School prøvde veldig hardt å finne gode lærere til elevene sine, og personligheten deres fungerer veldig godt sammen. Jeg liker å studere kinesisk på Keats, og jeg kommer definitivt tilbake.