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We're preparing an HSK 5 video course following the HSK 5 Standard Course textbook from BLCUP. While double checking the grammar coverage against the official HSK 5 grammar list from cltguides.com, we isolated these 19 grammar points that are not covered in the...

原动力 By: 鹿晗   Tonight I'm gonna rock this place Shake it to the ground now Wanna feel that 808 听到节奏就出招 用激光带动呼吸的时刻 让我们挣脱存在的规则 Tonight I'm gonna rock this place 准备好开始尖叫 Turn it up loud 上紧发条 我就是主角 Cuz I'm feeling the force 现在起跳 当心跌倒 全场聚焦 We'd be shaking these walls...

贝加尔湖畔 By: 李建   在我的怀里 在你的眼里 那里春风沉醉 那里绿草如茵 月光把爱恋 洒满了湖面 两个人的篝火 照亮整个夜晚 多少年以后 如云般游走 那变换的脚步 让我们难牵手 这一生一世 有多少你我 被吞没在月光如水的夜里 多想某一天 往日又重现 我们流连忘返 在贝加尔湖畔 多少年以后 往事随云走 那纷飞的冰雪 容不下那温柔 这一生一世 这时间太少 不够证明融化冰雪的深情 就在某一天 你忽然出现 你清澈又神秘 在贝加尔湖畔 你清澈又神秘 像贝加尔湖畔 Vocabulary...

A recent news story from CNN reports on the completion of a new high-speed railway in Kenya. On Wednesday May 31, a train embarked on an inaugural trip on the 300-mile long high-speed rail line from Mombasa, Kenya to its capital city Nairobi. The line, named "Madaraka...

28 years ago, a pro-democracy youth movement swept across China In China, and we all know how it ended. News media in China is still tightly controlled, and if you use Chinese search engines in China and look it up, the only piece of information you can find is from...

Image credit: the Globe and Mail China is one of biggest polluters - 30% of world's emissions from fossil fuels in 2014 Yet China is poised to be a world leader in Climate change. Li Keqiang, Chinese Premier, said "will stand by its responsibilities on climate...

Image credit: CBS I came across a news article on CBS Denver, and I'm amazed that there are schools that teach Chinese immersion to elementary school kids. Denver Language School is a K-8 language immersion school in Denver, Colorado, United States. Most classes are...

This video on YouTube by Leanchinese-HUAJIE Language Programme teaches you the most basic Mandarin Chinese words in the HSK curriculum. The video is a bit long - 150 words will take a long time! Watch the full 51 minute video below:...

The United States is the birthplace of the most widely used modern foreign language education theories. A glimpse at the US gives us an idea of current foreign language learning trends. 10,600,000 of K-12 students in the US are learning a foreign language, this is 20%...

If you are a teenager and looking to improve your Mandarin, here's how you might do it. Check with Your High School   If your school offers a Chinese course for you, then take it! Most school boards take their language education seriously, and it will be great to...