Monthly Archives: July 2010

Chinese Culture – Guo Tie – Study Chinese

Pan-fried meat dumplings Pan-fried meat dumplings are always pan-fried and baked. They are a kind of snack food with stuffing, often mincemeat in them. According to different seasons, people will add different vegetables to the dumplings, which are always shaped like crescents with crisp, deep yellow bottoms. The shapes of pan-fried meat dumplings are different [...]

Business Chinese – Sports talk 谈论体育 – Chinese School

Sports talk A: Sue? Do you want to join the softball team? We need another player. B: I haven’t played softball since I was in high school! A: Come on! It’ll be fun. We play every other Saturday afternoon from May until August. B: Okay. I guess I could give it a try. 谈论体育 A:苏?你想参加垒球队吗?我们还需要个队员。 [...]

Chinese School – Chatting about child 谈论孩子 – Business Chinese

Chatting about child A: How’s your little girl, Debbie? B: Oh, she’s just fine. She’s so grown up now. A: How old is she? B: Four and a half going on twelve! 谈论孩子 A:你的女儿怎么样了?苔比? B:喔,她好极了。现在长得很大了。 A:她几岁了? B:四岁半,像十二岁的似的。 (Source: wwenglish.com)