Category: Chinese language

If you are interested in translating for the Huang Yao Foundation, get in touch with me. They are looking for a group of capable translators as they plan out their translation needs. You can register your interest and then there might be silence for a while but they have thousands of content to translate. Things…

Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, is the most important traditional festival in China celebrated at the turn of the lunar calendar, usually in late January or early February. It is a time for families to gather, exchange gifts, and participate in traditional activities such as dragon and lion…

I regularly go on language exchanges to practise Chinese. At every meeting, half the time, someone would say that my Chinese is very good and they see no need to really undertake such a disruption to life and career. So why am I bothering to dedicate months to go to Taiwan to learn Chinese? My…

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…

Chinese is hard to learn but I have some bite-sized tips for you that have helped me a lot.