Halloween in China

 

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Practical Hotel Chinese

* Please be careful.

  qǐng dāng xīn 。

   请     当   心。

 * Don't worry.

  bié dān xīn 。

   别   担  心。

* Please don't leave anything behind.

  qǐng bié yí wàng nín de dōng xi 。

    请  别  遗   忘    您   的   东  西。

* Wish you a pleasant journey！ Good luck！

  zhù nín lǚ tú yú kuài ！ zhù nín hǎo yùn ！

   祝   您 旅 途 愉   快！     祝  您   好   运！

* Have a nice trip！

    yí lù píng ān ！

    一 路  平  安！

* Goodbye and thank you for coming.

  zài jiàn ， xiè xiè nín de guāng lín 。

   再  见，     谢   谢  您  的   光     临。

 

Dating Chinese

* You really look sharp in that new outfit.

   nǐ chuān nà tào xīn yī fu kàn qǐ lái hěn shuài 。

   你     穿     那  套    新  衣 服  看   起  来   很     帅。

* You are  smoking hot!

   nǐ shēn cái zhēn hǎo ！

   你    身    材     真    好！

* You look like a million dollars.

   nǐkàn shàng qù shuài dāi le 。

   你  看      上     去     帅    呆  了。

* You look natural and unaffected.

  nǐ kàn qǐ lái hěn zì rán 、 hěn zhēn chéng 。

  你   看   起  来   很  自  然、     很     真      诚。

* You are a sharp dresser.

   nǐ zǒng shì chuān dé hěn cháo 。

   你    总    是      穿    得   很    潮。

ShangHai Impression

Fast food & Pregnant women

Pregnant women who consume trans fats from snack foods, fast food and other less-than-ideal fare may give birth to bigger babies, according to a US study.

The study, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, centered on nearly 1,400 pregnant women. It found that the higher the woman's intake of trans fats - which raise "bad" LDL cholesterol, but also lower heart-healthy HDL cholesterol - during the second trimester of pregnancy, the larger her newborn was.

The study did not prove that trans fats alone boost fetal growth, and if they did, it is unclear how harmful that could be. But there are risks to having a larger-than-normal newborn, says lead researcher Juliana Cohen, of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

Big babies may have to be delivered by Cesarean-section and studies have found that they may have increased risks of diabetes and heart disease later in life, Cohen adds.

"It's prudent to limit trans fats in your diet anyway. Pregnant women may want to think about how (the fats) could affect fetal growth as well," she says

Organic food

Organic farming produces food that is priced two or three times higher than food without organic certification, but it is popular with consumers who see it as healthier.

This new - but essentially very traditional - agricultural technique excludes or strictly limits the use of manufactured fertilizers, pesticides, plant growth regulators and genetically modified organisms.

It relies instead on techniques such as crop rotation, biological pest control and "green manure" - a crop of, say, legumes and grass that is dug in to return nutrients to the soil or is cut and left on the surface as mulch. Organic foods are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents or chemical additives.

Jiang Gaoming, a researcher at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team have been learning organic farming on experimental plots in Pinghu county, Shandong province, since 2007. They used wheat straw as feed for stock and used the animal waste to fertilize vegetables. Trapping lamps were put out for insects, and farmers killed weeds by hand.

The researchers are trying to ascertain the costs and earnings from farming without chemicals, but Jiang said they don't yet have the details they need to issue a report.

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Mixed Chinese Art

 

Young singers, old songs. Traditional music given a modern makeover. These are the lifelines that are keeping old folk songs evergreen in China. Chen Nan looks at the talents at work and sees how young blood infuses old songs with new life.

For two hours, she stood on the stage at the National Center of Performing Arts in Beijing (NCPA) last night, belting out a repertoire of songs as old as the hills. But the singer is a radiant 29-year-old, and at the peak of her career. Soprano Lei Jia has just finished a solo recital, which she titled Tunes of Revival.

These folk songs, known as min ge, are all part of common culture, popular at the grassroots, coming from all over the country, incorporating the cultures of regional and ethnic groups. They have been sung for generations, passed on simply through word of mouth.

But in these days of multiple musical choices, they are under threat, in danger of being discarded by new generations addicted to Western beats and modern pop. Young people complain the songs are slow and boring.

This is where singers like Lei Jia step in and give the old songs new interpretation, and a fresh face of glamour. And it seems to be working.

"Today, one of my fans messaged me, and she said it's great to see young singers still sing Chinese folk songs, and encouraged me to keep going," Lei says. It was one of several encouraging messages she received after news came that she would sing at the NCPA.

For Lei, folk music is the most beautiful sound in the world.

learning Chinese Mandarin

   

There are several good motives for learning Chinese.
Mandarin is the most widespread language on Earth and as China increases in economic influence, more people will discover the benefits of learning it. Nevertheless, a high number of Westerners dread that learning Chinese is a challenge. It's valid that English and other languages spoken in the Western world are quite a bit different than Chinese however if you advance toward it in the correct manner it can be a manageable assignment. Subsequent are some methods to make it more effortless to learn Chinese.Learning about the Chinese culture is an important factor in learning the language.

No matter whether you are learning Chinese for business or fun knowing the culture can help you learn the language faster. The Chinese culture is complex and rich with history. You will see that pursuing a few of these topics will introduce you to Chinese words related to this area. Exposing yourself to these topics will naturally introduce you to Chinese words related to this area. You may begin to lose interest in learning Chinese if you have yet to discover an interest worth pursuing. Find a native Chinese tutor to help especially if you are unable to travel to China. The one on one attention you get working with a personal tutor is much better than any other method of learning the language. Studying the language with a tutor will go faster since they will correct your many mistakes. Your tutor can make suggestions as to materials and assignments to work on between sessions. Chinese tutors can be found on college campuses or other Chinese predominate locations, ask around for referrals.

If you want to learn Chinese as quickly as possible, you should find a class in your area. Even if you're an adult and graduated from school, it's expected that there is an adult education course that teaches Chinese at a community college near you or another location that offers classes. Learning a new language is becoming all the rage, and Chinese is one of the quickest growing languages around the planet. Enrolling in a class will allow you something to concentrate on and a venue to perform what you're learning. You can study at home with books and online programs, but it's also very helpful to be around other people who are speaking the language. If you are unsuccessful in finding a class in your area, the optimal thing is to look for an online course with some interactive traits, like talking on Skype. So try to seek out a class that can help you learn Chinese faster and more pleasingly. In summary, you have to approach learning Chinese like you would any challenging subject. Rather than stressing out over fluency (which will take years as Chinese is a complicated language), challenge yourself to learn a little bit every day over time. Embrace every single opportunity that you have to practice whether it is with a class, by reading a book or by working with a native speaker. Learning Chinese can be at least a little bit easier if you use the tips talked about in this article.
    

      

There are several good motives for learning Chinese

   

There are several good motives for learning Chinese.
Mandarin is the most widespread language on Earth and as China increases in economic influence, more people will discover the benefits of learning it. Nevertheless, a high number of Westerners dread that learning Chinese is a challenge. It's valid that English and other languages spoken in the Western world are quite a bit different than Chinese however if you advance toward it in the correct manner it can be a manageable assignment. Subsequent are some methods to make it more effortless to learn Chinese.Learning about the Chinese culture is an important factor in learning the language.

No matter whether you are learning Chinese for business or fun knowing the culture can help you learn the language faster. The Chinese culture is complex and rich with history. You will see that pursuing a few of these topics will introduce you to Chinese words related to this area. Exposing yourself to these topics will naturally introduce you to Chinese words related to this area. You may begin to lose interest in learning Chinese if you have yet to discover an interest worth pursuing. Find a native Chinese tutor to help especially if you are unable to travel to China. The one on one attention you get working with a personal tutor is much better than any other method of learning the language. Studying the language with a tutor will go faster since they will correct your many mistakes. Your tutor can make suggestions as to materials and assignments to work on between sessions. Chinese tutors can be found on college campuses or other Chinese predominate locations, ask around for referrals.

If you want to learn Chinese as quickly as possible, you should find a class in your area. Even if you're an adult and graduated from school, it's expected that there is an adult education course that teaches Chinese at a community college near you or another location that offers classes. Learning a new language is becoming all the rage, and Chinese is one of the quickest growing languages around the planet. Enrolling in a class will allow you something to concentrate on and a venue to perform what you're learning. You can study at home with books and online programs, but it's also very helpful to be around other people who are speaking the language. If you are unsuccessful in finding a class in your area, the optimal thing is to look for an online course with some interactive traits, like talking on Skype. So try to seek out a class that can help you learn Chinese faster and more pleasingly. In summary, you have to approach learning Chinese like you would any challenging subject. Rather than stressing out over fluency (which will take years as Chinese is a complicated language), challenge yourself to learn a little bit every day over time. Embrace every single opportunity that you have to practice whether it is with a class, by reading a book or by working with a native speaker. Learning Chinese can be at least a little bit easier if you use the tips talked about in this article.
    

      

Eight Tips for learn Chinese

It is universal meaning for learners to improve their Chinese through ten tips of learning methods.

The first one is continues learning, even though it is only ten minutes to learn, you need to catch the time to learn. And the best time for you to learn is in morning. In morning, you can easily to remember things.

Second, if you think the learning method is not suit for you, you can change to the other one. A not suit method will let you get not improve, and you will be tired of learning.

Third, when you are remembering an essay, you need to know what it means and then try to keep in mind each character. Without understanding, you will not learn anything even though you can remember the whole essay.

Forth, keep the most common sentence as often as you can. The sentences which are common use are very useful. Wherever you are, you can use them to communicate with others. As long as you keep in mind every day, it will be easy for you to understand what people want to said.

Fifth, when you are walking on the street, try to use Chinese to translate all the things you see. The ads words and the words people saying in the street are the best materials for you.

Sixth, you need to remember the essays which are writing of Chinese people. If the essays are written by yourself, you can remember it after the teacher correct. Your thinking style is different with Chinese people, when you are writing, you will write in your own mind. So the correct things will be better for you to remember. You will find you learn it fast when you remember the best essays written by famous people.

Seventh, when you are writing down some phrases, you can write it down with your own words. And then try to use when you talk to a people who can speak Chinese.

Eighth, you need to contact with more things about Chinese, like reading Chinese news, listen to the video in Chinese, watch Chinese movie and reading some Chinese books.

Learn Mandarin

 

With businesses now rushing to Mainland China and many Chinese immigrants establishing their business and life in foreign countries, the influence of Chinese culture is obvious in all the major cities of the world.

 

Now to learn Standard Mandarin you will require at least two things. The first is determination. The second is a Chinese visa. Learning to speak Chinese is a long-term project even for very talented people, and in my seasoned opinion, it is not even possible until you actually live in The Middle Kingdom. This statement does of course depend on how serious you are about studying Mandarin, but if we are talking fluency, we are talking boots on the ground. The reason that being in China is not only a huge help, but a prerequisite, is the fact that Standard Mandarin is very different from the English language. I have never met anyone that has learned fluent-ish mandarin without being able to practice it every day, for at least a year.

 

For this reason, the three steps to learning Mandarin, is really the three steps to being able to live in China, and communicate on a basic level so you can practice every day. To focus on learning Mandarin for those situations where you can use it, while living in China, is the fastest track to proficiency. However, before you are able to focus on complicated, situation specific, jargon and terminology you need to have command of the glue that controls the rest of the language.

 

The most basic, and most useful, skill is therefore pronunciation. This might seem like an obvious statement but for Chinese, intelligible pronunciation is not as straightforward as it is in, for example, English. English has syllables, end of story ?if you learn to pronounce all syllables and you can pronounce every English word. Mandarin is a completely different story, in Chinese, tones matter in a way that is even hard to describe to a person that is not familiar with other tonal language. If you change the modulation of the pitch as you pronounce the word for buy, for example, you are actually saying sell. If you change the pitch when saying beautiful, you can end up saying the word for every, or the first character of America.

The second skill you need to become familiar with, to live and practice Chinese in China, is how Chinese people write and read. People tend to favor learning to simply speak but this is not enough to reach real fluency. It is not really evident at first when you start learning Chinese, but later, when you have identical 20 syllables in front of you, it is very difficult to remember them all without having a distinguishing aspect to focus on. Furthermore, to learn Mandarin in order to use it like a Chinese person means that you also need to learn how to write.

The third step is syntax. You need the grammar and idioms to succeed in this effort. Now, the best way to actually learn the grammar is not to focus on it. To instead go back to what we were talking about earlier: learning the stuff you need for the way you live your life. As soon as you have access to the basic grammar, the basic pronunciation and the basic writing system, learning more complicated syntax and words becomes a walk in the park, or a day at the office, or weekend diving. When you get over the hurdle of basic communication you have reached critical mass and from that point, further language acquisition is much much more easy, fun and targeted.

 

Chinease Art

Twenty-five chinese artists give readers a glimpse of their lives and of how they work

In just over 30 years China's contemporary art market has developed from nothing to become a huge financial success.

No one would have imagined that a decade ago the Chinese contemporary art market would have an annual trading volume of 170 billion yuan (19.3 billion euros).

In order to provide a comprehensive look at Chinese contemporary art, the Foreign Languages Press has published an illustrated book titled At Work: Twenty-five Contemporary Chinese Artists.

The book profiles 25 painters, sculptors, photographers and conceptual artists, taking the reader into their studios and presenting intimate glimpses of their lives and works.

Traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, engraving and sculpture account for the majority of art creations since 1949, but they do not fit into the classification of "contemporary art" here.

Generally, it is acknowledged that China's contemporary art movement emerged from the Star Art Exhibition of 1979, three years after the end of the "cultural revolution" (1966-1976) and the beginning of reform and opening-up.

The exhibition displayed 150 artworks, mostly imitating forms of expression from Western Modernism.

After being relatively cut-off from the rest of the world, Chinese artists were thirsty for the new and exotic. The Star Art Exhibition was a breakthrough for new-generation artists.

The New Wave of 1985-1989 saw Chinese contemporary art grow up. Artists fully embraced new Western art forms such as Expressionism, Cubism, Abstract and Dadaism.

Chinese contemporary art ebbed in the 1990s for various reasons, but with the 21st century and its economic transformation and dramatic social changes, what used to be called "unorthodox" and "decadent" became fashionable.

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