Chinese Idioms and Chinese Buzz Words – MandarinCore: Recent Episodes
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半大小子,吃死老子。 bàndà xiǎozi, chī sǐ lǎozi. Adolescent boys are perpetually hungry (A growing youth has a wolf in his stomach.) 我要长高! wǒ yào zhǎng gāo!
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百闻不如一见。 bǎiwén bùrúyījiàn. Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times Seeing is believing.
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搬起石头砸自已的脚。 bān qǐ shítou zá zì yǐ de jiǎo. Pick up the stone to hit one’s own foot (As you brew, so shall you drink. )
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百里不同风,千里不同俗。 bǎi lǐ bù tóng fēng, qiānlǐ bù tóng sú. Habits differ every hundred miles; customs vary every thousand miles. (Every country has its customs.) 北方春节běifāng Chūnjié 饺子jiǎozi 南方春节nánfāng Chūnjié 汤圆tāngyuán 年糕niángāo
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Do you know how to use your hands to say number 0-10 in China? 零一二三四五六七八九十 líng yī-èr sānsì wǔ liù qī bā jiǔshí
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