Posts Tagged ‘learn Chinese’

You must be thinking, why are you teaching us how to say “buy soysouce”? What does that have to do with the fun of the new Chinese vocabulary? Well, you will re-consider this question after reading the post. “Da” as a verb originally means “beat and hit”. But we normally use it with the meaning [...]

Hey, we are going to continue our vocabulary lessons with a few more interesting words and phrases. If you are learning Chinese, you must understand what “dai” means. Have a look at the character, can you imagine a person standing straight, not saying anything and not doing anything? Yes, that’s what “dai” means, dumb, logi, [...]

OK guys, we are going to continue our vocabulary lessons. Today’s word is: Yes, it does not have a corresponding Chinese word, just the pinyin (phonetic alphabet). It was created by the sponsor of the 2008 Modern Sky Festival, the brains behind Modern Sky Records, one of the leading rock labels in China. They set [...]

OK, guys, today we are going to learn another extremely popular new word, “ning ba”. In traditional Chinese, these two words are never used together. No one knows when and where the new combination originated, but all of a sudden, everybody is using it. “Ning” is a verb meaning tweak, twist, and wrench. “Ba” is [...]

Hi, today we are going to learn another fun and powerful word-”lei”. “Lei” means thunder. It used to be a simple noun, but now it’s being mostly used as an ajective meaning stupid, insane, and ugly in a surprising and powerful way like a thunder strike. A person can be described as “lei” for his [...]

Morning my students, today we are going to learn a new word, “Da Pa”. “Da” means big. “Pa” means proning on the ground. “Pa” has nothing to do with party apart from that the pronunciation is similar to the first syllable of “party”. If you are going to a party in Beijing, don’t say “I’m [...]

This is really hot at the moment. Everybody is claiming to be the true inventor of the word, including a performing artist, a rock record company, an online community, and lots of others. It pronouces exactly the same with “sorry“, but the meaning differs a lot. The first word means “slutty“, the second means “sharp“. [...]

During the next a couple of days I’ll be teaching you some of the newest Beijing vocabulary. These are the most fun, up-to-date, and cool vocabulary being used by the younger generation of the city. It’s fair to say that the young Beijingers’ thinking towards life and being, attitude towards the adult world, and their [...]