With 100 days to countdown from April 30th before the curtain rises on the 2008 Olympic Games, the organizers are busy fine-tuning for perfect staging of the world’s sporting spectacle. And ChineseHour is happy to teach you the new words today:
倒计时 dǎo jì shí
countdown
倒 dǎo, inverse, upside down
计 jì, calculate
时 shí, time
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Chinese expressions for Beijing 2008 torch replay. Many Chinese learners have written to ChineseHour teachers these days, they want to speak out their love on Beijing Olympic Games, and they are eager to learn some very passionate expressions on Beijing Olympics and the torch replay, for example: — 北京, 加油。Cheerio, Beijing! —- 奥运, 加油。Cheerio, Olympics!
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May 4th, 2008 is the 110th Anniversary of Peking University.
北京大学
běijīng dàxué
In China, the education is divided into three categories: basic education, higher education, and adult education. The Compulsory Education Law of stipulates that each child have nine years of formal education. Do you know the common Chinese words for school and university? ChineseHour is telling […]

This week in Beijing, the most popular place to visit is the venue of Beijing International Automotive Exhibition (Auto China). The Beijing International Automobile Exhibition officially opened on Tuesday, with more than 80,000 visitors in attendance. Sports utility vehicles, or SUVs, account for a large part of the new-to-market automobiles. But can you name the […]

Chinese number gestures 汉字数字手势 refers to the Chinese method of using one hand to signify the natural numbers one through ten. This method may have been developed to bridge the many dialects in spoken Chinese- for example, the numbers 4 (Chinese: 四; pinyin: sì) and 10 (Chinese: 十; pinyin: shí) are hard to distinguish in […]