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Just a picture of New York city? Look again – there’s been a man in the middle staring at you the whole time! It’s the work of renowned Chinese artist Liu Bolin. He meticulously paints himself so that he can blend into his surroundings unnoticed. This isn’t your everyday art – you could say it [...]
You probably know Hangzhou for its beautiful and historic West Lake. But if a Chinese netizen has his way, it may also be known for the world’s biggest parking lot. To solve Hangzhou’s traffic problem, Jiang Biao conceived of a parking lot that would be 28 stories high and be able to house 11,200 cars. [...]
Top language learners swear by it. It’s scientifically proven to be the best way to memorize anything. So why hasn’t spaced repetition learning gone mainstream – in language learning and elsewhere? How come people are still studying words in the order they wrote them down in their notebooks? In case you’re unfamiliar with SRS (spaced [...]
Here’s a quick tip if you want to get 1.7 milion Youku views in 1 day. Just make a 9 minute video where you imitate 12 different people — with accents ranging from Chinese, French, Russian, Japanese, to American. Worked for an American in China named Mike Sui! We have a chengyu for a chameleon [...]
Weibo has been buzzing with a new hashtag that was born after an encounter at the zoo. A zookeeper at the Beijing zoo was cleaning up after the ostriches, and overheard a passing woman telling her son “if you don’t study hard, then you’ll have to do this!” “不好好学习就得干这个！” “bù hǎo hǎo xué xí jiù [...]
Another month has flown by and that means we’ve tweeted another 20 or so language tweets via our Twitter account @FluentFlix. As always, our aim is to provide you guys with useful, relevant, yet fun and interesting, words and expressions that stick. Oh, and how do we know what’s relevant? We find our words via [...]
Suffering from back pain? Instead of going to see the doctor, how about going to the ATM to find some money to count? Chinese netizens are buzzing over an award-winning scientific finding by researchers at Zhongshan University that counting money can relieve pain. You can read their comments under the hashtag: #数钱可以缓解疼痛#(shǔ qián kě yǐ huǎn jiě [...]
We’re proud to present our new FluentFlix demo video! (If you are having trouble watching the video above, then you can watch it here.) If this is the first time you’re hearing about FluentFlix, FluentFlix helps you learn Chinese through the web’s best online videos — anything from music videos and movie trailers, to news and inspiring talks. [...]
Do you know these 3 ways to say funny: 好笑 ， 可笑， 幽默 ? How about the differences between them? They might sound similar but they’re actually different – don’t get them mixed up! The best place to start is with 好笑 (hǎo xìao). 好笑 (hǎo xìao) is the most basic, vanilla way to say “funny.” It’s a [...]
For the fifth entry in our Chinese Language Learners Interview Series we interviewed Chris Hubbard, a reader of the blog and expat living in Taipei, Taiwan. Chris is a great example of someone who’s taken language learning into their own hands. After coming to Taipei to learn Chinese, Chris started out at a local university’s [...]
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