Chinese Language and Cultural Posts including Cracking Chinese Fundamentals
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Over the past few weeks, a music video for the song 'Fragile Heart' 玻璃心 by Malaysian Chinese singer / songwriter / producer Namewee (黄明志 Huáng Zhì Míng) and Australian Chinese singer Kimberly Chen (陳芳語 Chén Fāng Yǔ) has gone viral all over the world - especially amongst Chinese communities living
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How should you REALLY pronounce 'Huawei' 华为 (華為)? Xiaomi 小米? - How about surnames starting in NG like 'Ng', 'Ngo' 吳 and 'Nguyen' 阮? - And what about Muay Thai (มวยไทย)? Some people spend a lifetime mastering Thai boxing and even moving
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Foreign hotel brands are failing when it comes to marketing to China. I have recently done some research into how hotels in SE Asia, Europe and the United states are managing their Chinese market through digital channels and I was shocked by what I discovered. I'm not sure
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"How is it possible that you don't even know your own hotel's name?" As part of the Hotelintel.co research for our 'Marketing To China' series, we examined thousands of comments left by Chinese guests who on several of the main online
Culture and Business
From China to Thailand - is it ever okay to be critical of your host country as a foreigner / expat? This past week, a Frenchman in Thailand was reprimanded for making a music video that went viral where he sang in Thai calling the government out on various issues. Youtubers
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Try saying these words - Nguyen, Ngan, Ngoai, Ngoh, Ngoi, Ngai, Nggak, Ngopi, Ngerti, Ngut-ngit, Ngi-ngau. Imagine living in Vietnam with 38% of the population having the surname Nguyên, and not being able to pronounce their name properly? In spoken Indonesian, the initial 'ng' sound often plays a
Mind and Brain
By the end of this article, you will have all the tools available to automatically generate your own customised multi-lingual audio, spaced-repetition vocabulary learning training files as well as physical flash cards to help you increase your vocabulary in the language that you are learning and develop a much more
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Chinese tones, grammar, pronunciation, Hanyu Pinyin, Characters - Hanzi 汉字(漢字), developing a good vocabulary and even whether or not you should have a Chinese name - and if so, what TYPE of Chinese name should it be … ? In this 90 min tutorial, I have tried to cut through many
Language and Linguistics
How do You Know What You Are Experiencing is Also What Everyone Else Around You Is? So many expats that I meet in China, Indonesia, Thailand and other countries around the region tell me that they get around just fine without knowing the local language. I suppose that is a
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Everything in this universe can be broken down into binary – 0′s and 1′s. I love to draw the curtain back and reveal the 0′s and 1′s… perhaps we could call this ‘Wizard of Oz’ syndrome – the Wizard is never as scary as he’s made out