Mandarin Chinese

choose to make while trying to adjust to a new environment. Eric Liu’s memoir The Accidental Asian demonstrates just that. It depicts the double consciousness, social structures, instances of identity confusion, and the agency a second-generation Chinese American experiences. In high school, he experiences the social structure of beauty standards. For the first time, Eric became aware that, “bangs were no longer the look for boys.” He began to hold himself negatively accountable for having a…

Translation Essential: Six Reasons to Translate Into Chinese Your translation dollars only go so far and you need to maximize your return on investment. Why translate into Chinese? Consider these six arguments: 1. China is a market of 1.3 billion consumers. With the Internet, you have access to the vast majority of them. However, if you want the average Chinese consumer to open their wallet for you, you are going to need to approach them in their native language. This is true whether you…

understanding of how consumerism is shaping people’s lives in Shanghai today, through our first-hand perspective working in a Chinese retail outlet. We are fully immersing ourselves in an uncommon and unheard-of working environment for an American college student studying abroad in China. Although this experience is one of a kind, I have gained a great deal from this rich involvement in Chinese society. I have understood something I would not have fully gain if I worked at the regular…

rightfully belonging to China, served as the baseline attitude of the PRC. However, the concept of One China became continuously ambiguous in recent years especially when Taiwanese formed their own cultural, political system and understanding about Chinese nationalism. However, the PRC government still approved the idea of One China, and established the positive image of events or historical figures to support this idea. For instance, a television drama 沧海百年 (100 year History of a Heroic…

Benefits of Learning Mandarin Chinese While learning Chinese have become hugely popular around the world, more and more people are trying to learn Chinese, and many celebrities also learn to say a few words of Chinese, seem to learn Chinese is a very fashionable thing, but learning Chinese is not an easy thing, I think only strong motivation and sufficient interest can prompt you to overcome many difficulties and successfully acquire Chinese language. Of course, because learned Chinese, you can…

predominately speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese at home (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). • The majority of China-born people speak English well or very well (67.1%), whilst approximately 32% do not speak English well or at all (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). China • Mandarin is the official language of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. • Chinese people from Hong Kong and the Guangdong province of the People’s Republic of China speak Cantonese. • Chinese language…

other words, the Mandarin entered the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as the national language. In Hong kong history, Shandong dialect and Beijing Mandarin also came to Hong Kong in the past. They experienced the deep contact with Cantonese and eventually were absorbed by the Cantonese. But since the reunification, the Mandarin found living space in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. New immigrants from mainland China settled in Hong Kong, and they always speak Mandarin and…

Entry Type: Academic Focus SLO: Reflective Communicator Artifact Description: Mandarin Padlet Assignments In my Mandarin class Ms.Wang will give us a word in Chinese and we have to learn how to use correctly in a sentence. Recently we learn the word 错(cuo). We have to write three sentences using that word but we have to use a verb before cuo. Before writing sentences using the new word we learned she will give us a sentences and we have to guess what the word means in English first.…

Safe Spot Again, I'm sitting in the same Chinese Restaurant for the third time this week, supposedly the first ranking Chinese restaurant in my city. The worn out Chinese red decorations hang unbalanced on the entrance door, as always. In freshmen year, a Chinese student invited me to a Chinese meeting spot, where we spoke in Mandarin. Our interests and complaints were all similar. I began to think that it was a safe corner for me. Preferring to be with people of a common culture and language…

Throughout this summer I read the book “Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language” by Deborah Fallows. It is a memoir about the discoveries Deborah Fallows made through her journey of living in China for three years. She wrote about the good and bad but also the different things she learned in the process. For example she wrote about her troubles when she first started getting introduced to the different tones, but then she learned that although the tones may sound the…