Eight Basic Strokes of Chinese Characters
Chinese characters are written in a shape of square and built up from strokes. In order to write Chinese symbols, you need to know the basic strokes of characters. There are eight basic strokes. They are the horizontal stroke, the vertical stroke, the left-falling stroke (or called as throw stroke), the right-falling stroke, the dot, the rising stroke, the turning stroke and the hook. Strokes are written in the certain order and directions. When you write Chinese characters, it is important to follow the rules. If you need writing worksheet for these eight basic strokes, please leave your email in ...
Weekly Chinese 1 – Chinese New Year Greeting
Chinese New Year (or Spring Festival) is the most important traditional holiday in China. It is also called the Lunar New Year. The festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th. Chinese New Year 2010 is the year of the tiger. If you stay in China, you may pay a New Year call to your friends. It would be neccessary for you to learn some new year greetings in Chinese. 1. Greeting sayings usually begins like this:
Coloring – Chinese Zodiac Set 1
The coming Chinese New Year is the year of tiger. Tiger symbolized courage, confidence and energy. People born in tiger year are supposed to be very brave, confident and independent. If you were born in the year of tiger, the year 2010 is your 本命年(běn mìng nián). 本命年(běn mìng nián) means the recurrent year in the twelve-year cycle of Chinese Zodiac, which refers to the year you were born in. Here is one complete set of Chinese Zodiac coloring sheets. You can print them out, ask your students to color the twleve animals and make your own Chinese Zodiac wall display. ...
Get Your Blog Here
As you know from the first entry, Outlook Chinese Blogs is a free blog platform for Chinese teachers to create their own blogs for their classes. To be a 21st century educator, we have to be familiar with and well-utilize various tools. Blog, for sure, is one of them, which makes communications easily. Outlook Chinese Blogs is not only a blog platform, it is more like a community. Not only can you have your own blog, but also you can create your group, forum, invite/make friends, send messages etc. Outlook Chinese Blogs is a free blog service for you to use. ...
Welcome to Outlook Chinese Blogs
Hello everyone. Thanks for dropping by. After choosing and testing various blog systems, Outlook Chinese Blogs was finally launched today, Jan15, 2010. To give you an idea about OutlookChinese, I wrote the very first blog entry on OutlookChinese Blogs. What is Outlook Chinese? Outlook Chinese is an educational Chinese learning portal I ‘ ve created for Chinese teachers to share worksheets and download Chinese learning flashcards. It also serves as a Chinese worksheet/game generator and free blog platform.
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Weekly Chinese 1 – Chinese New Year Greeting
Chinese New Year (or Spring Festival) is the most important traditional holiday in China. It is also called the Lunar New...
Coloring – Chinese Zodiac Set 1
The coming Chinese New Year is the year of tiger. Tiger symbolized courage, confidence and energy. People born in tiger year...
Get Your Blog Here
As you know from the first entry, Outlook Chinese Blogs is a free blog platform for Chinese teachers to create their own...
Welcome to Outlook Chinese Blogs
Hello everyone. Thanks for dropping by. After choosing and testing various blog systems, Outlook Chinese Blogs was finally...
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