Friday, March 8, 2013

A good video for you to learn Chinese pinyin

Chinese alphabet  (Pinyin practice):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rK2e58QuY

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Review the Meaning of Chinese New Year

1.  Origin of Chinese New Year:  http://www.history.com/videos/history-of-the-holidays-chinese-new-year#history-of-the-holidays-chinese-new-year
2. Spring Festival and Chinese people:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5p-Ds6b9Bo
3. Learn Chinese Spring Festival vocabularies:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuSy87Jo8s8

Saturday, January 26, 2013

see the demonstration of lion Dance drumming

1.  Drumming:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PuLhCWmXDg
2.   Lion Dance:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m-SEdOKrE4
3.   Chinese Zodiac Animals:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCYcL_BQn-4
4. Dragon dance:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apimBqgTeBA

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Learn Chinese Calligraphy

1. Introduction to Chinese calligraphy:
     http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1000bce_calligraphy.htm
2. Examples of master calligraphers and their writings:
     http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html
3. visual tutorial:    http://www.art-virtue.com/tutorial/index.htm
4. Examples for Chinese New Year: 
 http://163.20.160.14/~word/modules/tinyd0/content/pdf/9-1-5.pdf

Monday, January 7, 2013

Learn Chinese songs through you tube.

1.若(ruo)     www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mHkYO2PD0E
                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=get0UbyQt7Q
2. 數算主恩(shu suan zhu en/Count Your Blessings)       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9O62YcUkk 

3. 愛的真諦( ai de zhen di/The True Meaning of Love)          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpT6nqy-tl0

Monday, December 24, 2012

The Meaning of Christmas, 聖誕, in Chinese


Sheng                   holy / sacred
Chéng                   to present to a superior
Ěr                            ear
          
Kǒu                        mouth
Rén                        ninth of 10 heavenly stems 十天干 / ninth in order / letter "I" or roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / nona

Dàn                        birth / birthday
Yán                         words / speech / to say / to talk
Yán                         to prolong / to extend / to delay

Merry Christmas, 聖誕快樂(sheng dan kuai le)

Wednesday, December 5, 2012