Shenzhen is vying for the title of City of Literature under the acknowledgement of the Creative Cities Network by the UNESCO. The city literary federation is busy preparing its application under the watchful eyes of the Guangdong provincial and Shenzhen municipal governments. To be recognized as a city of literature, a city has to meet [...]
Foreigners living in Shenzhen will be lending their hand in correcting wrongly translated road signs in a three month campaign. The campaign is an invitation by the city transport commission that will focus in changing poorly translated signs. Traffic road signs found at expressways, highways, trunk roads located near Universiade venues, transport terminals and hotels. [...]
Shekou People’s Hospital established a volunteers database that lists volunteers who can speak 70 languages for foreigners that are seeking medical treatment at the hospital. This database of interpreters is the first that anyone could find in public hospitals in Shenzhen. The database was built with the standard of the Joints Commission International and for [...]
The Culture club near Xiang mi hu in Futian is offering excellent mandarin courses for 50rmb per 1 hour lesson. The owners Clarke and Martin set up the culture club as a place for foreigners to hang out and it has become popular amongst chess players, monopoly players and people who just want to relax [...]
Australian couple Mark and Bernadette learned the Chinese language in just under six months, the couple wanted to learn Chinese so they can communicate with the local people and really enjoy Chinese things and culture. The couple being foreigners felt they were missing something on their five years of living in Hong Kong, so they [...]
A Chinese-speaking contest held last Saturday at Central Walk in Futian district, with 20 foreign competitors from 15 countries. The contest was organized by China Radio International and a Shenzhen Radio Station. With enough passion and time to practice you can learn to speak fluent Chinese in no time, said one competitor. The 20 expats [...]
A collection of books containing English translations of public signs in Shenzhen is available to visiting foreigners. The book contain a total of 1.3 million words, including a guidebook and instruction book covering 13 categories. And a simplified version will be released by the end of October. The book was compiled by Shenzhen Translators association [...]
A city wide campaign was organized by the city government to promote the English language to Shenzhen citizens in preparation for next year’s Universiade games. Mayor Xu Qin said a good English speaking environment can bring the city and its foreign guests closer by facilitating international communication. A group of volunteers from Beijing are in [...]
Ted Rule’s Scoop on the Script — or — Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Chinese Characters But Were Afraid to Ask! On Friday, May 23, about 50 curious souls gathered for a talk by Ted Rule about the development of Chinese writing. We learned why the language is called Mandarin and exploded the [...]
In English there is the expression “a long shot” or “a very long shot”, used to describe slim or very slim chances of success. In Chinese, a phrase, a fable really, carries the same meaning “The man who waited for the next rabbit to crash into his favorite tree.” The story goes like this: A [...]
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