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Advanced lesson Mandarin Chinese audio idiom story 守株待兔 shou zhu dai tu Wait For Windfalls, origin, Chinese text, pinyin, English translation, annotation. What is Wu du five vermin in 韓非子 Han Fei Zi, Lady Gaga – You And I, Little Bunny Foo Foo by Phil Magnini

You are going to have a very rich Chinese idiom lesson today. You will not only learn a very common Chinese idiom and its origin, but also some Chinese cultural and historic facts about the five pests or five vermin … Continue reading

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Best Tang poem 张若虚 Zhang Ruoxu 春江花月夜 chun jiang hua yue ye A Flowery Moonlit Night by the Spring River: lyrics, pinyin, English translation, audio, poem analysis, Moon River, Tony Bennett – Fly me to the moon lyrics

春江花月夜 chūn jiāng huā yuè yè A Flowery Moonlit Night by the Spring River 张若虚 Zhāng Ruòxū Translated by Shu Slow version[audio:http://www.chinesetolearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/listen-to-poem1.mp3|titles=listen to poem] Fast version [audio:http://www.chinesetolearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Spring-river.mp3|titles=Spring river] 春江潮水连海平,  海上明月共潮生。 chūn jiāng cháoshuǐ Lián Hǎipíng ,   hǎishàng míngyuè gòng cháo shēng … Continue reading

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