I’m currently travelling the UK and I was in the northern part of England recently. If you know the UK, the accents vary much more at much lesser distance, unlike in the US or Canada where there’s more homogeneity. As I got off the train one hour north from London, I could hear a slight …
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你问我爱你有多深， 我爱你有几分。 Sounds familiar? From what I observe, many Chinese people, regardless of where they grew up, will know this song. I have never thought of this before, but it seems clearer and clearer to me that Chinese music represents a common centrepiece of Chinese identity. And I don’t mean modern Chinese music. Rather, there …
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When things are going bad, we become scapegoats,” says Chinese Jamaican Dalton Yap in an interview about growing up in Jamaica.
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Chinese is hard to learn but I have some bite-sized tips for you that have helped me a lot.