The weekend is here again, but it’s not just any weekend! We all hope you have many fun and safe Halloween parties to go to with your trendy costumes or your beautiful jack-o-lanterns… 【万圣节🎃】The Complete Guide to Buying Halloween Costumes on Taobao 【万圣节🎃】Pumpkin to Jack-O-Lantern in 8 Easy Steps 怎么做南瓜灯? But if you find yourself…
Category: Language
【学习】Free Business English Classes Online at Linkedin until Oct. 30~
Great news, everyone! Linkedin.com/learning is currently offering all of their online classes for free until this coming Sunday, October 30th… Some of the video courses are very short and easy to consume in only 10-30 minutes and some of them are a few hours long. Various class topics: Insights from a Business Coach Critical Thinking…
🎃 The Ultimate Guide to Buying Halloween Costumes on Taobao
~Teaching you how to Taobao like a local~ One of the best holidays of the year is just a few weeks away… Do you know what your costume is going to be yet? How about your cat’s? Halloween 🎃 万圣节 🎃 wàn shèng jié Don’t fret – you can find almost any costume or cosplay item known to man…
【学习】50+ Baseball Idioms to improve your American English ⚾️⚾️
With USA baseball 棒球 (bàng qiú) heading into the 2016 MLB postseason 美国职棒大联盟季后赛 (měi guó zhí bàng dà lián méng jì hòu sài), let’s take a look at some of the common baseball phrases we love to use in the United States for everyday life, business, and even in politics. You see, baseball is one of America’s oldest sports and…
【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…
【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】How To Say Punctuation Marks in English and Chinese 如何说标点符号
Punctuation [ˌpʌŋktʃuˈeʃən] 标点符号 (biāo diǎn fú hào) is vital to any student of any language… especially for writing and grammar efficiency! You’d be surprised how useful many of these will be in your life. So here’s how to say some of the most common punctuation marks in American English and Chinese… really impress your teachers! Any…
【双11💡】How To Be The Perfect “Third Wheel” 教你如何成为电灯泡高手
Happy Single’s Day 光棍节 guāng gùn jiē (11/11) to all the single ladies and single lads out there! (Happy Armistice/Veterans Day to all the soldiers, too!) 祝所有单身的姑娘小伙子们光棍节快乐!(同样,也祝所有的战士们“老兵节”/“休战日”快乐!) Today in China, we celebrate being single and the one predicament that all single people often find themselves in: being the third wheel in your friends’ relationships. Or the…