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…
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【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,…
【学习】9 Childhood Cartoons in Chinese 9部经典卡通帮你提高英语
For the adults, check out this post: 【电视剧】Where to stream foreign TV shows in China (中英字幕) Ready to run down memory lane? Ready to learn something in the process? Well, here are nine childhood cartoons from the USA… for years, our Saturday mornings included at least one of the following nostalgic animated shows. Each cartoon’s…
【MV】Jamie xx《Gosh》在杭州天都城小区拍摄
You may not know who Jamie xx is or have heard this song before, but we highly recommend watching this video! It was directed by Romain Gavras and features more than 400 actors and was made without any CGI effects or other trickery. Keep that in mind when you see a figure standing in nearly…
【世界美食】Foods of the World: Vietnamese Phở 越南河粉
Phở is one of our absolute favorite foods in the world! Have you had it before? Don’t know what it is? If your mouth is not watering by the end of this post, then we don’t know what else we can do… be sure to watch the video at the bottom! Phở (or just pho) is pronounced /fʌ/, /fə/, /fər/, or /foʊ/:…
【7月4日】100 Years of Hot Dog Eating Contests 美国吃热狗大赛100周年
We all know the Fourth of July as the USA’s political Independence Day but it also marks a huge holiday in US culture. Besides fireworks and BBQs, one of the most well-known events on July 4 every year is the famed International Hot Dog Eating Contest 美国吃热狗大赛 on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, sponsored…
【流行文化】Top 3 Carpool Karaokes with Chinese subtitles 看过拼车卡拉OK了嘛?(中英字幕)
For some reason, the recent “battle of the late night hosts” in the USA has been won by two British guys. Gone are the days of Letterman and Leno monologues; it’s now time for viral video shorts that can be easily consumed on your mobile devices. James Corden, esteemed British funnyman, Broadway superstar, and the…