Clashes of culture give rise to great stories, as well as conflict. The documentary American Factory (美国工厂) tells such a story, a dreary yet hopeful one — all around the metaphor of manufacturing glass. See our other Chinese series on Netflix As a Mandarin student, you’ve probably experienced lots of culture clashes in China, both […]
Every day seems to be a day for something. There’s a Pancake day (February 25), a day for Lefthanders (August 13), or leaving the office early (June 2). And today is the best of them: it’s United Nation’s Chinese Language Day (联合国中文日Liánhéguó zhōngwén rì). Why Chinese Language Day? It’s set up in 2010 by UNESCO, […]
Answer these questions to find out which Chinese city and you are most alike. We’ll rank your latitude based on the answers: simply keep track of your amount of A’s and B’s. Maybe it’ll help you decide your new hometown, place to study Mandarin, or travel destination (we hope it’s Shanghai)! When you say “where”, […]
Has living in China or learning Mandarin in Shanghai or online made you become more Chinese? See these ten questions, and see if you can score a full ten! – Number 1 – You call “Powerpoint” “pīpītī”. Bonus point if you also call apps as ‘ēipīpī’. – Number 2 – You prefer hot water over […]
This article is about the best books for learning the Chinese language. Because no matter how fancy apps or YouTube channels are, books are amazing learning materials. Click here if you want to find more about: Specialized Graded Readers for Chinese language learning Books about Chinese culture Mandarin Chinese children’s books Best books for learning […]
It takes around five minutes to cycle from GoEast’s campus in Shanghai to LeWagon — but while one school teaches Mandarin and the other teaches code, are they really that close in class material too? Is learning a foreign language similar to learning a coding language? Would a Chinese-speaker code differently than an English-speaker? We […]
We love quotes because they’re nuggets of wisdom, condensed life-lessons into bite-sized sentences. A good quote is memorable and inspirational. So we’ve lined a few up for you, you amazing Chinese-learner. Jiāyóu! Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. – Penelope Lively Learning another language is not only learning different […]
With DuChinese we hosted our teacher Ellie, live from Shanghai on YouTube, answering your questions about learning Chinese. Topics: 2:38 HSK preparation 11:55 Free online resources 14:31 Chinese language in general 24:31 Hanzi 34:55 Pronunciation 42:10 Casual topics HSK preparation How to prepare for a HSK test? Per level, it can be described as: HSK1: […]
GoEast recommends places to eat and spend time in Shanghai by following our community of educators and students.
There are a lot of Chinese proverbs about bamboo, but we haven’t found one yet that describes going on a weekend trip with your language school, so we’ll explain it for you here: with 42 students & Mandarin teachers, we travelled out of Shanghai and into the bamboo forests of Anji, up on hills and […]