Articles for helping kids learn about china culture

It's the convenience that allows you to learn Chinese anytime and anywhere! This is something that our students make use of, with some of our classes in the past being taken at Disneyland, in the airport, or even on a train, so that no time is wasted when it comes to Chinese learning. This is only possible for our users because of our handy iPad app. With it, you can take Lingo Bus anywhere with you, and its perfect touchscreen enabled-interaction makes learning even more fun! This is a sensational updated version. Our technology experts and design artists have worked together to present a completely new User Interface that is not only cute but extremely user friendly. Knowing where you are is highly essential, especially in regards to learning. Our 2.0 iPAD version has made this happen with its new update. In this version, you and your children will be able to clearly see where he/she is in their language journeys. So that you will never worry about getting lost in the sea o...

"No wonder" is an important phrase in Mandarin Chinese to learn if you’re going to travel or live in China, a country with abundant cultural traditions and surprises for its visitors.  As you’ll see, both words feature the character “怪 / guài”, which has a few meanings, including “strange”, “to wonder at” and “to blame”. For the purposes of this post, we’re going to focus on the definition “to wonder at”. (1) 难怪 / nán guài Literally “difficult + to wonder at”, “难怪” is a fairly straightforward word and fits into a sentence just as “no wonder” does in English: Zhè shì yījiā yǒumíng de Běijīng kǎoyā diàn? Nánguài mǎnyuán le! “这是一家有名的北京烤鸭店？ 难怪 满员了！” ‘Aaah, so this is a famous Beijing Roast Duck restaurant?? No wonder it was totally full!’ Nánguài dàjiā jiābān. Jiézhǐ rìqī gǎi dào míngtiān le! “ 难怪 大家加班。 截止日期改到明天了！” No wonder everyone is doing overtime. The deadline was changed to tomorrow! Nánguài nǐ juéde yǒudiǎnr shānggǎn. Hái méi xíguàn zà...

What do people do on the famous Chongyang Festival in China? Learning the culture is the most interesting part of  online Chinese learning .  Originally on this festival people come together to climb mountains, in the  past  this was to bring protection against diseases. It was thought that by ascending to a high altitude you could avoid future illnesses. A s people ascended to high places on the Double Ninth Festival, the Chongyang Festival is also known as the Height Ascending Festival. This custom was supposedly started during the East Han Dynasty when people usually climbed mountains or towers. During Chongyang it’s hard to resist the mouth watering aroma of Chongyang cake. A steamed healthy two-layer cake made up of nuts and jujube.  People will make a special cake for this festival by sticky rice.  On its top should be two sheep made from flour. Some people place a small red flag on the top of cake and light candles.   ...