LtL Mandarin School - Chinese Culture Blog
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Student Feedback Email
Once a month we ask all our students to fill out a feedback form regarding their classes, so we know where we are already good and where we still need to improve. One LTL student sent us an email this month as well Dear LTL team, I am so happy with my learning experience that [...]Posted on 7 May 2012 | 6:39 am
Learning Mandarin with a Bilingual Child
I’ve always had a friendly argument with one of my friends (whose Chinese is wonderful) about the importance of tones. I have always believed that if you speak quickly enough, the context of the situation will fill in the blanks of any words whose tones have been uttered completely wrongly. To some extent this is [...]Posted on 11 April 2012 | 7:32 am
Time to 踏青
In China it has long been a Spring tradition to 踏青 tàqīng, meaning to get outside and enjoy nature. While a city like Beijing may not seem at first glance to be filled with nature, there are actually plenty of fun and interesting ways to 踏青. Taoranting Park 陶然亭公园 Táorántíng Gōngyuán is named for the [...]Posted on 6 April 2012 | 2:58 am
LTL International Football Fan Club
北京国安 – 上海申花 Beijing Guo An vs Shanghai Shen Hua Friday night started out like any other by meeting up with fellow classmates and friends to grab and quick bite and celebrate the start of the weekend. But this Friday was not like any other I’ve experienced in Beijing because this Friday I was [...]Posted on 21 March 2012 | 1:34 am
Enlightenment through immersion
During Chinese New Year and the week after I decided to head down to Sichuan and see some more of China. As part of my trip I planned to scale Mount Emei (峨眉山), one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains of China. It is traditionally regarded as the place of enlightenment of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra. [...]Posted on 10 February 2012 | 8:40 am
