Author Archive | Ben

七夕节 (qī xī jié), commonly known as Chinese Valentine’s Day or Magpie Festival, is an ancient traditional holiday falling on the 7th day …

Over the past year, we have worked hard bringing you some of the web’s best Chinese learning content on our blog, Twitter, …

Next in our series is Allan Ngo!  Allan has been a good friend of FluentU over the months, and we are happy to have …

We’ve looked before at the very auspicious meanings of 红 (red) in Chinese. Today, let’s examine 白 (bái- white), and explore some of its …

The mother of all Newbie conundrums: 了

This is one of the simplest of all Chinese particles, one which you probably encountered in Chapter …

To our female readers who felt snubbed by our post on Chinese Female Beauty, don’t fret!

与众不同 (yǔ zhòng bù tóng- stand out …

In the 15th post in our Lessons in Learning Chinese series, today we feature Matt Johnson. Matt has had a few exciting …