home Reading Time: < 1 minute The Two Minutes It Takes To Read This Will Improve Your Spoken Chinese Forever Andrew Methven 13 February 2022 2 min 10 North-Eastern Chinese dialect words you should know Andrew Methven 22 October 2021 2 min How (not) to inflate your social status in Chinese – 抬咖 (Tái kā) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 2 min AI and China’s ‘stealing faces’ – 偷脸 (Tōu liǎn) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 3 min Different ways to say: I’m not buying this – 不吃这一套 (bù chī zhè yī tào) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 < 1 min Different ways to offend and be offended in Chinese – 骂 (Mà) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 2 min How to say “epic proportions” in Chinese – 史诗级 (Shǐshī jí) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 2 min How to talk about sanctions in Chinese (制裁 – Zhìcái) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 < 1 min An idiom and two poems about hearing what hasn’t been said – 弦外之音 (xián wài zhī yīn) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 < 1 min A Buddhist idiom about managing change 道高一尺 (Dào gāo yī chǐ) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 2 min
The Two Minutes It Takes To Read This Will Improve Your Spoken Chinese Forever Andrew Methven 13 February 2022 2 min
Different ways to say: I’m not buying this – 不吃这一套 (bù chī zhè yī tào) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 < 1 min
An idiom and two poems about hearing what hasn’t been said – 弦外之音 (xián wài zhī yīn) Andrew Methven 29 March 2021 < 1 min