Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Learn Chinese Phrases (with Audio!)

Visit:

http://www.zapchinese.com/

and explore the following:

Learn Chinese Characters (with Video!)

Learn Chinese Phrases (with Audio!)

Learn Chinese Vocabulary (with Audio!)

Business Chinese(with Audio!)

Origin of Chinese Characters

From:

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa101699.htm

"As we know, written Chinese is not an alphabetic language. We call Chinese characters as 'squared characters' and they are. They seems very complicated and hard to learn. But Chinese is the most used language in the world and certainly one of the most beautiful languages. It will be interesting to know its origin."

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Click on the link and learn more from About.com

Saturday, August 9, 2008

The Word "Peace" in Chinese


After watching the opening of 2008 Beijing Olympic, if you are interested to learn more about the word "Peace" in Chinese, you may look it up using the online dictionary "nciku":

http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/searchorder/1305932/

to learn the stroke order, click the link below:

http://www.nciku.com/search/all/%E5%92%8C