The NYtimes posted a video recently talking about how various Mao-era songs are on the upswing lately as the 90th anniversary of the party approaches.

Watch here: Red Nostalgia Rising

In the clip they referenced a ballet called Red…

The way to travel

Here is a short story of travel to Thailand in Chinese with some vocabulary, English translation and photos below.  Let me know if you have any questions.…

Hi everyone,

I would like to offer help with Mandarin and I also hope that people can help to improve my written English. Thanks.

闹钟 nàozhōng                        alarm clock…

Here's a free online game for learning Chinese tones courtesy of the BBC.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/games/tones.shtml



The site has another game for Chinese…

Word of the Day has been done lots, of time, but I'm putting a different spin on it. 

It's a Chinese word of the day, but by telephone. You fill in a form and then my site will call you up. I'm looking for suggestions or comments on this feature.

http://lingomi.com/chinese-word-of-the-day

Thanks in advance.

Now for something different to mix up your Chinese learning, here is a short Chinese film (30 minutes) by the Chopsticks Brothers who have made some popular movies on Youku.  

The title is Winner (The Ultimate Winner) 赢家 - yíng jiā.…

Hi everyone,

I'm gonna go over some time expressions in this post.

Now lets look at weekdays, it's pretty straight forward.

All you have to do is place a number after 'xingqi' to make the days of the week, except for sunday in which you add 'tian' or 'ri'.

Jīntiān Xīngqī jǐ? : What day is it…

大家好! 

Dà jiā hǎo!



This is part 2 of how to tell the time in Chinese. You can read part 1 here.    



Let's look at 'a.m.' and…