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Chinese worksheets for Children

SamODell - May 18 2013 11:45 PM in Resources for Studying Chinese

I worked in China for several years teaching English and it was easy to find 100s of different types of worksheets for use while teaching Children English...now me and my Chinese wife have moved to England and we are struggling to find resources as plentiful as those for teaching English. Does anyone know any sites which share 'for free' worksheets or printouts which can be used for teaching Children Mandarin? Or any other site focused towards teaching children Mandarin which has any resources which mi...
Latest of 2 replies by imron at Yesterday, 06:21 AM.

山崩土淹 When Hillsides Collapse

skylee - May 18 2013 10:32 PM in Chinese Television

I came across an exhibition called When Hillsides Collapse today. There was a video that I thought was quite impressive.  (I used to work in the Geotechnical Engineering Office and have a lot of respect for their work.  So I might be a bit biased. ) Here is the video (in Putonghua with English subtitles) -> youtube - http://www.youtube.c...4DJ0wQ&index=17
Latest of 0 replies by skylee at May 18 2013 10:32 PM.

Studying tones HALP!

Robert Ekberg - May 18 2013 10:21 PM in General Study Advice and Discussion

Yesterday i came a across a blog about learning chinese. I found his blog on a ploygots blog. Have anyone seen this before or tried this kind of method his describing? But not using Anki? how can it be good? I'm having problem with the tones and trying to find a good metod of learning them. http://www.foreveras...w-to-speak.html
Latest of 0 replies by Robert Ekberg at May 18 2013 10:21 PM.

The HK melting pot

carlo - May 18 2013 11:57 AM in Society

As a newly minted HK resident, I've begun paying attention to local news.  This made the rounds yesterday and even my father sent me an email asking if we know what we are doing, as if there was a gang of hooded hooligans waiting to set our apartment on fire. It was indeed amusing to read that HKers prefer living next door to emotionally unstable people (which has happened to me at least once, and is definitely unpleasant) rather than to "foreign workers". Did something get lost in transl...
Latest of 2 replies by carlo at May 18 2013 02:50 PM.

Going back to the beginning on reading and writing...

Pengyou - May 18 2013 09:58 AM in Reading and Writing Skills

I keep hoping that that HSK authorities will change the rules to allow the typing of Chinese instead of writing...but I have been told to not hold my breath. Request for discussion on this topic: I have seen many Chinese people using what I think are called xie zi ban 写字拌 ? or writing tablets to enter Chinese into a computer.  Most of them, yes, are older individuals that did not learn how to type or use pinyin.  But as someone who is at the beginning side of writing - maybe can write 50 cha...
Latest of 6 replies by imron at Yesterday, 01:48 PM.

CHINESE HELP: May someone check my Chinese Writing

kaomianbao - May 18 2013 04:08 AM in Reading and Writing Skills

Here is my Chinese Writing draft for my Writing GCSE, please may someone read over it and highlight any mistakes, I would be very grateful Any mistakes, no matter how small, will be greatly appreciated if highlighted Thank you My piece has to be under 250 words and entitled 'My Last Holiday' Here is my Chinese Writing draft for my Writing GCSE, please may someone read over it and highlight any mistakes, I would be very grateful Any mistakes, no matter how small, will be greatly appreciated if highlighted...
Latest of 2 replies by kaomianbao at Yesterday, 04:45 AM.

DJing in China

Phmios - May 17 2013 08:13 PM in Music

Hello, I am German, 26 years old and will be in Beijing for one year starting August 2013 and would like to DJ there (my background is electro; house tech). I am looking for a small club and don't need the salary for a living, but would like to do it as a hobby (2-3 times per month). Have you seen any small clubs who might be interested in having a Western electro DJ?? Cheeers!
Latest of 2 replies by Phmios at May 18 2013 02:49 PM.

Help finding relative, urgent

pankaj_tin - May 17 2013 07:34 PM in Guangzhou & Shenzhen

Hi, I am Pankaj and please treat this as a urgent request. I am here to seek some help finding my fiance's (Tin's) grandmom. The problem is Tin has undergone intensive Chemotherapy sessions as she is a stage 4 blood cancer patient. So her memories are, to say the least "Foggy", the technical term is "Chemo Brain". Hence, I don't have full contact details of her grandma. The doctors tell me Tin does not have very long to live, so I am trying to find her grandma asap. But I only have...
Latest of 0 replies by pankaj_tin at May 17 2013 07:34 PM.

QQ not installing

Pengyou - May 16 2013 10:07 PM in Chinese Computing and Electronics

I have a fresh install of windows 7 on my pc.  I downloaded qq international and tried to install it, but it hangs up on the terms of use page.  I have downloaded the file again, spaced more than a week apart and still get the same problem.  What can/should I do?
Latest of 7 replies by arrow at Yesterday, 01:25 PM.

Does anyone have the list of HSK 6 hanzi *not* contained in the 2 Remembering the Hanzi books

Tomas Tomas - May 16 2013 02:08 AM in Chinese Characters

I remember finding such a list a long time ago but now I can't find it....  Help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
Latest of 13 replies by Tomas Tomas at May 16 2013 02:04 PM.