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Qixi Festival: What’s the Story Behind Chinese Valentine’s Day?

How much do you know about Qixi Festival, or the Chinese Valentine's Day? Its Chinese name is 七夕节...

The 4 Chinese Podcasts you MUST follow in 2021 🎧 🎙️

Why should I listen to Chinese podcasts? Podcasts - 播客 (bòkè) - in Chinese, are the unsung Chinese language learning tool we all need to add into our tool box. Lessons, text books, songs and...

NihaoCafe HSK-Graded Videos

HSK1+ | Being Late to a Party

In this article about being late to a party, we take a look at the story in Lesson 32 in NihaoCafe's Level 2. Take a look at some of the vocabulary that our students learn in this lesson, read the...

Go to the vet in Chinese (HSK2+) 🐱🐶

Get ready to go to the vet in Chinese! In this article, we take a look at the story in Lesson 51 in NihaoCafe's Level 4 and get ready to go to the vet in Chinese. Take a look at some of the...

Chinese Grammar

Stay in Chinese? Should I 宅 or should I go.. 🏠

When discussing...

The past in Chinese – 了 or 过? 2021 breakdown.

The Past Tense in Chinese - How do you make it? Did you know that to express the past in Chinese, you need to add either 了 (le) or 过 (guo) after verbs? Both particles help indicate that the action...