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New Year 2015: Happy Mew Year!

It’s 2O15 you guys! So Happy Mew Year from the Nincha team! Here’s to hoping that this New Year 2015 will turn out to be all you want it to be!

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Chinese culture

Massive firecracker explosion Chinese style

Feeling sleepy? This seriously huge firecracker explosion in Taiwan is bound to wake you up!

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Chinese culture

Chinese Halloween: ready for some Chinese ghosts?

This year, Nincha chose to celebrate Chinese Halloween — well, to dress up in a very Chinese Halloween costume: he’s a 僵尸. Jiangshis are scary zombie-like creatures that prey on living creatures to steal their Qi! Brrr.. ^^

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万圣节快乐! Happy Halloween

The Nincha crew is ready to go trick or treating in style! What scary things do you have planned for Halloween?

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7 ways to say Yes in Chinese

Yes is a very useful word to learn in any language. You use it to show you agree, to show your enthusiasm, to seal a deal and in many many different situations. As a Chinese learner, you were surely taught that while there is no direct equivalent to Yes in Chinese, [zh zh=”是”] is an […]

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A bite of China season 2!

We posted an article last year about CCTV’s mouth-watering 7 part documentary on Chinese food, which was called “A bite of China”. It turns out it was such a big success they decided to make a season 2 of the show! “A bite of China” II started airing again in April, and airs every week. […]

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Chinese culture Vocabulary

Chinese tickets: trains and planes, oh my!

Have you seen what Chinese tickets for trains and planes look like? If you haven’t been to China yet, odds are you haven’t.

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Chinese culture

Human Panda? We’re all going a little Panda

That’s what we think after seeing this picture of human pandas, first shared by Offbeatchina

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Chinese culture

3 Chinese songs you NEED to listen to

C-POP is a lot less popular than its Korean and Japanese counterparts but it’s a shame, because China has produced some really great songs. Such as these three Chinese songs.

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Discounts in Chinese: Don’t be fooled by the 折 sign

Don’t you love the sight of a great sale? How awesome is it to score a miaowtastic item 90% off? One of the members of our Google + Chinese language community pointed out something though: discounts in Chinese are confusing. It’s true. Discounts in Chinese don’t have a % sign on them AND they don’t work the […]

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