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27/01/2016

猜猜最多几个字？How many characters can you see?

13/01/2016

Show your creativity by filling in the blanks...

04/01/2016

Reading Finnegan's Wake in Chinese must be one of the biggest challeges ever... can you imagine?

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/article1652069.ece

Finnegans Wake is regarded as one of the most difficult books in the English language, what with its stream of consciousness, arcane allusions to Greek mythology and made-up words in several languages.

07/12/2015

Her description of Yeah yeah yeah is spot on!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/layli-foroudi/in-ireland-english-as-a-foreign-language_b_8637598.html

If someone says "I'm after going to the shop" it means "I just went to the shop", which I guess makes sense because you are now inhabiting a time, after going to the shop.. but when first hearing it I had no idea what was going on.

20/11/2015

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6690932/2015/11/19/spains-catalonia-introduce-chinese-language-public-schools

BARCELONA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Representatives from eight universities in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, met in Barcelona on Thursday with the Confucius Institute of Barcelona Foundation (FICB) to exchange experiences and promote collaboration.

11/11/2015

"Alibaba said total sales exceeded $5 billion in just the first 90 minutes of the 24-hour sale, which kicked off at midnight Wednesday in Beijing. About 72% of sales were from mobile phones."


http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/10/watch-frank-underwood-advertise-chinas-black-friday/

'One burner phone is never really enough. I’d order 10 if I were you.'

10/11/2015

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/11/10/the-big-biang-theory-how-the-most-complicated-chinese-character-keeps-students-from-being-late/

Most schools expect their students to attend classes punctually and students are commonly penalized when they fail to do so. At a certain school in China, a teacher used to punish his students by making them write English sentences when they were late for class, until he came across the “most compli…

19/10/2015

http://www.ischoolguide.com/articles/29970/20151018/formula-one-takeover.htm

CVC Capital Partners, Formula One’s controlling shareholder, has not yet decided whether to grant the exclusivity request.

07/10/2015

Get in touch with Goutong for Mandarin lessons from an Irish man who can show you the way to China.

http://www.kiplinger.com/article/business/T012-C000-S001-best-languages-for-your-career.html #

Learning an in-demand language can improve you job prospects.

02/10/2015

Easily the most ambitious is the formation of a China–U.S. joint venture to build high-speed rail between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

http://thediplomat.com/2015/10/five-overlooked-developments-from-the-obama-xi-visit/

There are five largely overlooked developments in U.S.–China relations from the current visit.