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How to give gift to Chinese girl

How to give gift to Chinese girl muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl Do you know how to give gift to Chinese girl or other people in the world? 无论是为了某个特别的节日,还是为了表达感谢,抑或是为了让对方明白你很在乎,赠送礼物都是人类共同的习俗。各地赠礼的目的也许相近,但赠礼的传统却因国而异。在某地表示尊重的赠礼行为,在另一个地方看来则可能会被视为无礼。一起看看世界各地独一无二的赠礼传统吧。 In Europe, don’t accidentally cut yourself out of someone’s life.在欧洲,别不小心与人一刀两断。 Here in the US, a set of kitchen knives seems like the perfect gift idea for a wedding or holiday. However, in certain European countries like Germany, superstition dictates that a knife present ed as a gift will sever your friendship. There is a way to beat this superstition: Tie a penny to the knife or gift box. The receiver then returns the penny to you as a “payment” to nullify the bad luck. 在美国,一套厨房刀具似乎是十分理想的婚礼或节日礼物。然而在某些欧洲国家,如德国,迷信让人们相信赠送刀具会割断朋友之间的友谊。打破这种迷信的办法是:在刀或礼品盒上绑一枚硬币。收礼人把硬币还给赠礼之人以示“付款”,用以抵消厄运。 In Britain, diamonds are 60th wedding anniversary gifts.在英国,60周年结婚纪念日礼物是钻石。 Lottery tickets are bought and exchanged h...

How to talk About Covid19 Pandemic with Chinese

How to talk About Covid19 Pandemic with Chinese muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl If you’re learning Chinese, and have Chinese friends , family, or coworkers, you may have been wanting to check in with them, to see how they’re doing amid the pandemic. You can learn how to chat about life during the pandemic with Chinese people you know! 小美:张明,你最近怎么样啊?还好吗? xiǎo měi: zhāng míng nǐ zuì jìn zěn me yàng a hái hǎo ma Xiao Mei: Zhang Ming, how have you been lately? Have you been OK? 张明:你好小美,好久没联系了! zhāng míng: nǐ hǎo xiǎo měi hǎo jiǔ méi lián xì le Zhang Ming: Hi Xiaomei, it’s been a while since we’ve talked last! 张明:我这边还不错,你呢? zhāng míng: wǒ zhè biān hái bù cuò nǐ ne Zhang Ming: I’ve been pretty good. How about you? 小美:我也是,你们家里人都好吗? xiǎo měi: wǒ yě shì nǐ mén jiā lǐ rén dōu hǎo ma Xiao Mei: Me too. How is your family? 张明:我们家里人都很好,谢谢你的关心! zhāng míng: wǒ men jiā lǐ rén dōu hěn hǎo xiè xie nǐ de guān xīn Zhang Ming: Our family is great. Thanks for being concerned! ...

My views on the development of private car ownership

My views on the development of private car ownership muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl With improved social developments, more and more Chinese families are beginning to afford private cars. 随着社会的发展,越来越多的中国家庭能够买得起私人轿车。然而,对于是否应该发展私人轿车,人们的观点则各有不同。 在有些人看来,私人轿车给他们提供了很大的便利和灵活性,人们不再依赖公共交通,他们可以随心所欲地去自己想去的地方。然而,发反对者则认为私人轿车使城市的交通状况更为糟糕,到处都出现堵车现象;并且,过多的私人轿车及大地污染了空气。 在我看来,私人轿车数量的增加是我国现代化的一个标志,但是我们 应该制定相关政策来严格控制私人轿车。 With improved social developments, more and more Chinese families are beginning to afford private cars. Yet opinion s of whether we should develop private car ownership or not differ from person to person. In some people’s eyes, private cars offer them great convenience and mobility. People no longer have to depend on public transportation and they can go wherever they want. However, opponents of this idea think that private cars make the situation of city traffic even worse. There are already so many traffic jams. What’s more, so many private cars greatly pollute t...

What pets do you like? Look here!

What pets do you like? Look here! muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl Nowadays, many people would like to keep pets as their companions. There are so many pet shops, pet foods, and even pet clinics around us. 现在,很多人喜欢喂养宠物作为自己的伙伴。我们周围有许多宠物店、宠物食品甚至宠物医院。对于那些宠物的饲养者来说,宠物是他们最好的朋友并且能给他们带来无尽的乐趣。 然而,宠物也会给他人带来麻烦。有些人抱怨他们的生活被如此多的狗吠声所骚扰;小猫小狗还很可能伤及孩子,许多人认为喂养宠物应该受到限制。 就我而言,宠物是我们的朋友,我们应该善待他们,然而我们也应估计他人的感受。我希望在我们享受宠物给我们带来的快乐的同时,他人仍然能够拥有宁静祥和的生活。 Nowadays, many people would like to keep pets as their companions. There are so many pet shops, pet foods, and even pet clinics around us. For pet owners, pets are their favorite friends and can bring them countless pleasures. However, pets can bring problems to others as well. Some people complain that their lives are disturbed by so many dogs’ barking; some children even get hurt by the dogs or cats. Many people think that pet-keeping should be limited. As far as I am concerned, pets are our friends so we should treat them kindly. Yet we shou...

Choice Chengyu: Idioms That Go Boom

Choice Chengyu: Idioms That Go Boom muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl Gunpowder, one of China’s “Four Great Inventions,” was probably an accident: Historians believe that alchemists were trying to make the pill of immortality when the ingredients in the cauldron (sulfur, nitrates, and honey, according to a ninth-century recipe) went boom. Choice Chengyu: Idioms That Go Boom Whether or not gunpowder has made a positive impact on the world in the 1,200 years since it was invented, however, is up to debate—and, judging by idioms that have to do with the explosion, even ancient people were themselves far from sure. While a great force was sometimes admired, or at least feared and respected, as a driver of progress and change, its destructive potential was considered troubling, as shown by many of the sayings below: 血肉横飞 Xuě ròu héng fēi Blood and flesh flying horizontally What could make blood and flesh fly horizontally? A powerful force like an explosion, of course. Th...

It’s time for a simple Mandarin Test!

It’s time for a simple Mandarin Test! muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl Do you know what your Chinese level is now? It’s time for a simple Mandarin Test! Given that learning is a lifelong endeavor – especially when it comes to linguistics – practice certainly does make perfect, or at least something approximating perfection. Here is an opportunity to test your Chinese proficiency. With any luck, it will reignite your passion to explore the wider world of this rich language and culture we’ve all chosen to immerse ourselves in. It’s time for a simple Mandarin Test! (1)Choose the correct pinyin for the word below 汉堡包 1.Hàn bǎo bāo 2.Hàn bǎo bao 3.Hàn bǎo bǎo 4.Hán bāo bāo   (2)Choose the correct meaning for the following word 留学 1.Bleed 2.Detention 3.Study Abroad 4.Foreign Student   (3)Choose the right meaning for the following idiom 大腹便便 1.To describe someone who is broad-minded 2.To describe someone who is fat 3.To describe someone whose bel...

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