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Chinese Language & Culture

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Jan 11, 2008

Our expert, Xi Chen, will show you how to write and tell you how to say different words for entertainment and leisure activities in Chinese. She will walk you step by step through the formation of eac ...

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Jan 11, 2008

In this video series, our expert will teach you how to write and pronounce the Chinese symbols for words related to house rental. Learn about the derivation of words like landlord, rent out and apartm ...

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Dec 29, 2007

In this video series, graduate student and teaching assistant Esther-Xiaohua Liu will show you how to write Chinese characters by using the radical for "water." If any Chinese character contains the " ...

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Dec 29, 2007

In this video series, expert Bo Feng shows you the proper stroke order for writing Chinese characters properly. The long tradition of calligraphy has developed techniques for writing that will make yo ...

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Dec 22, 2007

In this video language lesson series, our expert will teach you how to write and pronounce a variety of Chinese symbols for flowers. You will learn about how each Chinese characters is formed and deri ...

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Dec 22, 2007

Most modern Chinese words contain more than one syllable and therefore require multiple characters to write out. However, a person knowing the meanings of individual characters can often infer the gen ...

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Dec 21, 2007

Our expert, Xi Chen, will show you how to say many different types of fruits names in Chinese. She will walk you step by step through each name and explain each one at a time. Since there is a lot of ...

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Dec 14, 2007

Learn to say and read some basic Mandarin words/characters. This is one kind of Chinese language, the other being Cantonese. ...

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May 14, 2007

Learn how to say thank you and other common phrases in Cantonese before your next visit to China or Hong Kong. It's not an easy language to learn, but these useful phrases are a great place to start. ...