to my girls!

亲爱的同学们，

I just wanted to say, thanks for all of you who gave me a wonderful time in Beverly Hills and thanks for this great 北京欢迎你 present! I uploaded it on this blog and I really think it was a great piece of work!

I wish all of you the best of luck and enjoy your Chinese studies in the future! You are my favorite students in my 5 week's of practicum and I'll never forget you girls! Hope I'll get a chance to see all of you again soon.

For your Chinese blog, I wish you can keep on posting to it in the future. It is a fun piece of work and it is always good to share your feelings with your friends, and sometimes with your teacher. Hope we can keep in touch using blog or email or msn. :)

Good luck and best wishes!

Love

Vivian Jiang

汉语桥Video

Hi girls,

Check here. This is from the 汉语桥(Chinese Bridge) 演讲比赛(Speech contest)。The contestant is singing 北京欢迎你 which is one of the main promotion songs for Beijing Olympic. It is very good. If you like this song, we can try to learn it in our next class!

The 'eight don't asks' of the Olympics

Posters are appearing around Beijing guiding locals about how to interact with the (few) foreigners coming for the Summer Games.

The posters instruct residents on the “eight don’t asks” when chatting with foreign guests. Here’s a rough translation, courtesy of the Peaceful Rise blog:

Don’t ask about income or expenses,
don’t ask about age,
don’t ask about love life or marriage,
don’t ask about health,
don’t ask about someone’s home or address,
don’t ask about personal experience,
don’t ask about religious beliefs or political views,
don’t ask what someone does.

So what is one to ask? Maybe the relative merits of fencing versus marathon swimming?

Now, for the foreigners out there, here’s the No. 1 dud question to ask a Chinese person. It’s a question that will draw a blank, non-comprehending stare:

“Hey, pal, tell me about your president. Is he doing a good job?”

Artical sourced from www.yahoo.com

奥运期间的“八不问”
1. 不问收入支出。
2. 不问年龄大小。
3. 不问恋爱婚姻。
4. 不问身体健康。
5. 不问家庭住址。
6. 不问个人经历。
7. 不问信仰政见。
8. 不问所忙何事。

sourced from : www.baidu.com