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Chinese Surname Shortage

June 12, 2007 at 03:23 PM
Chinese surname shortage sparks rethink . Read more

Sino or sina Origins

June 12, 2007 at 11:17 AM
I am sure this is in here some where but I don't have the time or the patience to go looking for it.  I have heard many different theories of where this com... Read more

My favourite Chinese website - CnMDb

June 12, 2007 at 09:58 AM
I think www.cnmdb.com is now my favourite Chinese website. It seems quite a lot of the western actors have just the Chinese name though, so I've been submitting... Read more
Bluebluesky and Franch please repost your "small words" list again. It was wonderful, but fell off the connect page too fast.  I have been collecting... Read more

Connect section old posts

June 12, 2007 at 05:18 AM
Where do old posts go to die? A message such as this one, that isn't attached to a lesson, will fall off the end of the list into where? Which is OK, however som... Read more

Wang Lee Hom!

June 12, 2007 at 03:04 AM
Hey Everyone, I went to Taiwan in the summer of 2006 for a summer exchange program. It was absolutely amazing. I love it and I want to go back, which is one of the m... Read more
What's the policy of ChinesePod about about the Podcasts and the associated transcripts that are no more available on the ChinesePod website since V3 ? I re... Read more

What are proper gifts for Chinese?

June 11, 2007 at 06:29 PM
Everyone has had the experience of giving a gift. A proper gift can promote communication and express good wishes, and sometimes it may also bring about unexpected p... Read more

Chinese Spoken

June 11, 2007 at 06:03 PM
① Ganmɑ yɑ (干吗呀) In colloquial Chinese we often say “Ganma ya” to express “why”. When you don’t understand why somebody has done someth... Read more
The Spring Festival is the occasion for every Chinese family to get together. Do you know how people of different generations in the Chinese family address each othe... Read more