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Riding the Subway in Chinese with Fiona Tian

Riding the Subway in Chinese with Fiona Tian

Gwilym James June 2, 2015

It doesn’t matter if you’re in China for a few days or commute everyday for work: this video post will teach you the essential vocabulary and sentence structures you will need to ride the subway train.

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7 Chinese Movies You Have to See Before You Die

7 Chinese Movies You Have to See Before You Die

Karl Ryan June 1, 2015

Chinese cinema is often overlooked by Westerners and this is a serious mistake — the film industry in China is humongous, and offers up options on par with some of your favourite Hollywood movies. Furthermore, watching a movie in Mandarin Chinese is a great way to brush up on your language skills (check out this great post by FluentU on how to learn Mandarin from watching movies). Analyzing the dialogue with the subtitles is an easy way to find colloquialisms that you might use everyday in English, but have no idea how to say in Chinese. We have put together a must-watch list of seven essential movies that you have got to watch… we have also included some Chinese keywords for each film so you can come up with a sentence describing the film.

Write a sentence about your favorite film from the list in Mandarin Chinese in the comments — We will respond with corrections!

Read more to check out the list of 7 Movies in Chinese You Have to See Before You Die.

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Mad Max Fury Road In Chinese

Mad Max Fury Road In Chinese

Gwilym James May 22, 2015

Mad Max has hit cinemas again after a hiatus of almost 3 decades. In today’s post I’m going to show you what it is called on the cinema posters in China and Taiwan, as well as breaking down the titles and tagline.  Read More

6 Awesome Ways to Say Thank You in Mandarin Chinese with Fiona Tian

6 Awesome Ways to Say Thank You in Mandarin Chinese with Fiona Tian

Gwilym James February 14, 2015

Originally Shared on Mandarin Made EZ

Today’s post is great because no matter which phrase you use, you’re going to sound very polite and humble when using them. Read More

Studying Chinese on Your Kindle

Studying Chinese on Your Kindle

Gwilym James January 11, 2015

In this article I’m going to show how you can read your ChinesePod lessons on your Kindle with just 2 clicks. (You don’t need to own a kindle to do this: The app is available for free on all platforms).

I’ve been a huge fan of the Kindle line of e-readers for a long time, and have owned the Kindle with keyboard for many happy years, but this Christmas I decided to treat myself to a gift, and bought the new flagship model, the Kindle Voyage.  I could barley justify the price difference between that and the paperwhite, which looked to have pretty much similar specs on paper, but knowing that Kindles don’t go out of date nearly as quickly as smartphones, and it would be something I would be using on a daily basis, I decided to splash out.

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