Celebrating the Chinese New Year
Chinese culture
Dumpling party for the Chinese New Year
Ninchanese February 9, 2013The Year of the Tiger is just around the corner. Starting today, with 除夕, which is the Chinese New Year’s eve, 春节( chūnjié) celebrations mark the time to say goodbye to our Ox pal and welcome in the mighty Water Tiger. Here’s to hoping we’ll have a good year! What better way to start off the New Year celebrations than with a making/eating Dumpling party?
read moreChinese New Year: How to Celebrate?
Ninchanese January 31, 2013When it comes to New Year celebrations in China, it’s not the 1st of January that counts. It’s the beginning of the new lunar year that matters. The Chinese New Year is also known as 春节 (chūnjié, literally Spring festival). Curious to learn more about this Chinese New Year? Here’s a crash course in celebrating New year’s Chinese Style.
read moreChopsticks: Where to put down your chopsticks
Ninchanese January 16, 2013The other night, we were at a (really good!) Chinese restaurant with a Chinese friend and her Chinese colleague. Feeling a bit self-conscious as we didn’t know this colleague very well, we were really focused on our Chinese table manners. Handling our chopsticks properly particularly came to mind. During dinner, one question arose: where do we put down our chopsticks? Turns out there are big no-nos in this field. Also, the answer can depend on who you’re talking to. So, today, we’re looking at one aspect of cultural etiquette that is sure to come in handy when eating in China: where to put down your chopsticks!
read moreChina’s top cities in timelapse!
Ninchanese January 11, 2013A motion timelapse video about Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Isn’t it beautiful ?
read moreTime for Christmas wishes! But not this Chinese way
Ninchanese December 11, 2012Have you prepared your Christmas wishes yet? Watch this for a tripped out Christmas in China!
read moreChinese proverb: Go the mountain and meet the tiger.
Ninchanese October 9, 2012There’s an old Chinese proverb that goes:
上得山多终遇虎
(pinyin: shàng de děi shān duō zhōng yù hǔ).
This means “If you go to the mountain often enough, you will meet the tiger.” But what does that mean? Is it good? Bad? Neither?
read moreWelcome to Ninchanese blog
Ninchanese September 25, 2012Hi There! We’re building Ninchanese, a web and mobile app to help you learn Chinese in a way we hope you’ll find engaging, fun and rewarding! To know more about Ninchanese and to be part of the beta, head over to Ninchanese.com
Because we believe there’s more to learning a language than just learning vocabulary and grammatical rules – although those parts are important too and we’re actively working on creating great features to help you learn those aspects in an intuitive way -, we’re also launching this blog.
read moreA classic Confucius Quote
Ninchanese September 11, 2012Everyone knows Confucius for his famous quotes. This one will become your go to inspirational sentence, you can trust me!
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