Express Your Love With These Chinese Sayings

Express Your Love With These Chinese Sayings

Are you noticing love ornaments and decorations in every corner of the city? Perhaps are you receiving special love gestures lately? This is because the Chinese are celebrating 七夕节 (qī xī jié). Curious what does this mean? Find out more below! 七夕节(qī xī jié) or better known as the Double-Seventh Festival / Qixi Festival / Magpie Festival is a Chinese Valentine’s Day based on a […]
Learn These Chinese Slangs

Learn These Chinese Buzzwords and Speak Like The Locals

Happy International Youth Day (国际青年节guó jì qīng nián jié) everyone! Do you know what buzzwords Chinese young people are using these days? Let’s learn these words to surprise your Chinese friends/colleagues tomorrow!  Here are some Chinese internet slangs you can use to blend in with the locals! 1. 栓Q (shuān Q)= thank you(speechless) 我刚刚喝了一杯咖啡,你又做了一杯,栓Q啊! wǒ gāng gāng hē le yī bēi […]
Essential Fitness Vocabularies in Chinese

Essential Fitness Vocabularies in Chinese

Summer is the perfect season to go out and soak up under the sun. As the heat is spiking up, our spirit to do exercise must also rise. Just in time with the 15th National Fitness Day(全民健身日 quán mín jiàn shēn rì), promoting a healthy lifestyle and encouraging physical activities has become a significant goal for society. […]
11 ways to call a man in Chinese

11 ways to address the man in Chinese

In China, if you have been called 帅哥 shuài gē on the street, don’t panic. It is a respectful way to address you, which means “handsome or good looking”. It is quite widely used, you can call your friend 帅哥 shuài gē, call a young man or even a close colleague. But please don’t use this phrase on […]

New Function: Certificate can be Downloaded automatically!

In order to provide our students with more convenient service, Mandarin Inn has released a new function in MI Student: you can download your certificate of completion through Wechat now!   Whether you have already finished study or just started your class, the hours on the certificate is your actual learning hours, and you can download at any time.

10 Most Frequently-used Chinese Measure Words

As a Chinese English-language-learner, I was trying to find a measure word subconsciously. Few English nouns require measure words, and literally every Mandarin noun needs a measure word.

跟我教汉语 | “吃不了”有几个意思?

正在看电视连续剧的Kathy听到了以下两个句子: (1)你给我买这么多的零食,我一个人吃不了。 (2)明天早上我要坐飞机去旅游,明天中午那顿饭我是吃不了的。 Kathy非常困惑地向Mandarin Inn的老师请教,这两个句子中的“吃不了”是不是一个意思。