When making a phone call, we will mostly tell the person on the other side of the phone who we are and who would like to speak to this part focus on the opening phrases and expressions used in making and receiving phone calls. Listen to the telephone conversations and fill in the blanks...
Chinese couple marry in ceremony inspired by British royal wedding - Royal wedding inspires couple to marry with 'royal carriage' theme and surrounded by guards in furry hats and scarlet coats (click for details on Guardian, UK) Desperate mother's 'walk of shame' revealed as publicity stunt (...
NEW YORK, March 7 (Xinhua) -- An elderly Chinese couple has been hospitalized with serious head trauma after getting hit by a pick-up truck when American Airlines (AA) diverted their flight to Baltimore, the U.S. Mid-Atlantic state of Maryland, local media reported on Wednesday. The Chine...
If you meet a Chinese girl in one of the big cities, that will probably be a cakewalk. Signs are usually in English and Chinese. If you’re meeting in a smaller town, you best make it the hotel or the airport. The level of English that she can speak will play a huge role in the...
To be fair, for the past couple of months, it feels like the entire city of Taipei has had a cough or a cold and do you really care whether other people wear masks or not? What do you think? Time to expose our chins to the gods?
Bran Bran (wheat bran) is an auspicious fertility symbol at marriages because its pronunciation (fu zi 麸子) sounds the same as "rich son" (fu zi 富子) thus representing the wish that the couple will produce children who will become wealthy. Buddha's Hand See entry for citron below. Butt...
A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@", saying the character best represents their love for the child, according to an official trying to whip the national language into shape. The unusual name stands out especially in Mandarin (普通话), which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of...
Bitter melon is a curious summer gourd with light green, thick, ridged, bumpy skin. It has a strong bitter flavor that some—well, many—don’t exactly love. Bitter melon goes by a couple of Chinese names including kǔ guā (苦瓜)—literally, “bitter melon,” and liáng guā (凉瓜) ...
Although I have actually seen a couple Christmas trees around town (amazing though that is), I decided the only real way to have my fill of Christmas spirit was to decorate! So I went to Wal-Mart and got a little plastic tree (20 kuai), and a string of lights to put on it… (16...
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