The LEGO Batman Movie《乐高大电影：蝙蝠侠》 This treat of a movie combines two of our favorite things in life: LEGO 乐高… and Batman 蝙蝠侠, two very prominent players in Western culture. What could possibly go wrong? And let’s hope it comes to China! The LEGO Movie 《乐高大电影》, which came out in 2014, was a huge hit among…
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【学习】A Comprehensive List of Basketball Terms in English and Chinese 篮球术语综合列表 (双中英文）
This is a long and comprehensive list meant to be favorited and referenced when needed… It should be worth it for any basketall fan looking to improve their speaking and listening skills in either English or Chinese during the off-season! Feel free to share with your friends and on your Moments feed~ 🏀 Basketball 篮球…
【预告片】Justice League《正义联盟》Trailer (中文字幕)
Let’s forget Batman v. Superman ever happened, m’kay? This newly-released trailer, shown to fans at this weekend’s Comic-Con in San Diego 圣地亚哥国际动漫展 gives us the first look at next year’s continuation in the DC Universe saga. Justice League《正义联盟》will again feature Ben Affleck as Batman as he unites other members with “special abilities” because an “enemy”…
How to turn GIFs into Wechat Stickers
We all know that the key to true Wechat superiority in your over-abundance of Wechat groups is your ability to whip out the best “reaction” sticker for any particular situation… check and mate, right? When we all first start using Wechat, we discover those cute little cartoon ones that you can download to your phone…
【MV】tUnE-yArDs《Bizness》尤克里里演绎的实验摇滚
Well, it doesn’t get much more experimental than this… We admit this music isn’t for everyone, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t part of the culture! Tune-Yards (stylized as tUnE-yArDs) is the music project of New England native, Merrill Garbus. When performing live, Garbus creates drum loops on the spot and layers these with ukulele and vocals, in addition to…
【世界美食】Foods of the World: Dürüm 土耳其烤肉卷
You’ll never forget the first time you try a Turkish street food wrap known simply as the dürüm… for me it was the third day of my first trip to Istanbul. And I went on to eat it three more times in the next day and a half. A dürüm (Turkish pronunciation: [dyˈɾym]) is a wrap or “roll” that is…
【学习】Chinese Idiom: 揠苗助长 Impatience Spoils The Results（双语）
Once upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday he went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thought they were growing too slowly. He got impatient with the young plants. “How could…
【MV】Francis and the Lights《Friends》w/ Justin Vernon & Kanye West
Here’s an odd music video. But we love it all the same. For starters, it features one of our favorite performers ever: Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver fame)… and secondly, for some reason Kanye West himself shows up in it. The one-shot visual was directed by Jake Schreier and opens with West standing in a room…
【世界美食】Foods of the World: Jucy Lucy 肉有芝士，美味加倍的超级（肥）汉堡
A Jucy Lucy [sic] or Juicy Lucy is a cheeseburger that has the cheese inside the meat patty instead of on top, resulting in a melted core of cheesy goodness within the patty… The burger is prepared by putting cheese between two patties of meat, then sealing both patties around the cheese to create a single patty with a cheese core….
【听力】A Plethora of British Accents 哇嗷，你们喜欢哪种英国口音？
A couple weeks ago, we posted a fun video on Spanish accents in South America: 【搞笑】Hilarious Spanish Accents 这么多种西班牙语口音 Now let’s take a look at the numerous English accents on the British Isles through the lens of different actors you might recognize… Can you understand the accents and hear their distinctions? Video is by Anglophenia,…