How can I wish someone a Happy Chinese New Year? “Gong xi fa cai” is the most common Chinese New Year greeting in Mandarin. It directly translates to “wishing you great happiness and prosperity.” In Cantonese, the same greeting is “Gong hei fat choy” . Listen how to say “Gong […]
Chinese internet star Li Ziqi sets Guinness World Record
Chinese internet culinary sensation Li Ziqi has set a record for “Most subscribers for a Chinese-language channel on YouTube”, Guinness World Records announced on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service on Tuesday night. She was listed in the records in July with 11.4 million subscribers and had gone up to 14.1 million […]
Beijing T-Shirt God’s Advice For Mandarin Learners
As part of our “Celebrities who speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese” series, we are profiling some of the capital’s most fluently bilingual laowai (老外) foreigners. The star we are going to share today is Dominic Johnson-Hill, creative clothing designer, entrepreneur, and TV host who rose to fame with his Plastered T-Shirts […]