At Wuhan University there is a very famous and very clever dog. This dog likes to attend class at the University, and can even ride the bus to get there. After class, she enjoys running together with her classmates. She is very well liked by everyone, and everyone calls her 学霸狗 (xué bà gǒu). “学霸”…

Do you have trouble understanding what the announcement says when you ride the bullet train in China? In today’s sentence, we learn how to say “Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard this train”, which is usually the first sentence in every train announcement. This is the accompanying blog post for our master lesson “Train Announcement“.

This is an image of China’s Official train ticket website 12306.cn’s CAPTCHA, with a text saying “find all the pictures containing red wine”. Can you find the correct ones? 12306’s ticket buying CAPTCHA has stumped a lot of people. The CAPTCHA does not use the commonly seen numbers and letters, but instead has the user…

In Chinese, the word for mistress is 小三. It's a word you'll encounter quite often in magazines and TV shows, so it might be worth remembering. In today's elementary example, a lady unexpectedly answers the phone when Little Ming calls his dad. Could the father possibly be having an affair? Grammar points In our second…