Posts tagged Chinese

龙年大吉 – Happy New Year

21/01/2012

in China

龙年大吉 – Lóng nián dàjí or 新年快乐 - Xīnnián kuàilè.

Rabbit’s Year will be over this Sunday and Dragon’s Year will start on Monday.

This is the second New Year Eve for me and a week far from China. (more…)

Business Trip – 深圳 Shenzhen

12/01/2012

in China

I am just back from a Business trip in Shenzhen.

Above my occupation for one evening as I didn’t get my laptop anymore and was able to turn on television only after 1 hour (finally found the power button but all channels were in chinese).

More details as soon as I am back from my weekend in Harbin.

First post written in Chinese

16/05/2011

in China

I start today the Chinese section of my blog with the publication of the first post written with Chinese characters. After one month in Beijing, I have acquired some basics both on oral and writing.

The first post is still really simple. Find below the translation:

你好
Hello.

我叫儒亮（Julien） (more…)

First post in Beijing to share my first difficulties. My post title refers to a famous film directed by Sofia Coppola where a man is completely lost in Tokyo. This is comparable to my experience on my first days here.

It is really confirmed that only few people know English in China. The Language Great Wall is on each street corner.

I took some pictures in the streets to illustrate my new daily life. (more…)

Learning some Chinese key phrases…

08/04/2011

in Traveler Tips

A small part of Chinese population can speak English today. The % evolves quickly with the new generations but you need to know that it is really complicated to live in Shanghai or Beijing without speaking Chinese Mandarin.

To break the language ‘Great Wall’, I have started couple of weeks ago to look at the Chinese language with different teaching aids (podcasts, learning online lessons, some books for ‘dummies’…). Learning a new language is not easy as you may know. This is also true and confirmed for Chinese. (more…)