Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since my last post. I have been busy working on my other passion, sewing page.
Today I would like to share one of my favorite Chinese children’s stories called 小猫钓鱼, and a play that I wrote based on the story. My amazing students learned and performed the play in 5 days. We worked very hard to memorize all the lines and we also made our own props such as bean bag fish for the little pond. You can read the entire story with pinyin here. 小猫钓鱼 also teaches a great moral story, and it is great practice for Chinese learners. Enjoy!
The common expressions 放轻松 (fàng qīngsōng) 别着急 (bié zháojí) / 别急 (bié jí) The extended phrases to express “take it easy” in Chinese 慢慢来 (mànmàn lái) 别担心 (bié dānxīn) 别紧张
There’s an old Chinese idiom that goes “Time flies like an arrow” (光阴似箭 guāngyīnsìjiàn). I can totally relate to that one at the moment. It doesn’t seem like it was
After writing that blog post about the crazy Chinese character “biang“ a while back, I had to share this tweet by Alexander Zapryagaev @JPRidgeway about biang: You think you saw