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So instead, Chinese people say something else. Something that sounds like maybe, or not quite, or let me think about it — and means no. Every single time. Here…

In Chinese culture, 我爱你 — I love you — exists. But it is said rarely. Carefully. Only when truly meant. For everything else — the daily, ordinary, relentless…

Many of you have been asking how to flirt in Chinese — well, today I am giving it all away unconditionally! Here are the actual phrases Chinese people use to…

Chinese is full of four-character expressions — 成语 chéngyǔ — that use numbers to paint a picture of a person's character, behaviour, or energy. The numbers are…

Chinese has a whole vocabulary of animal expressions used to describe people — their character, their behaviour, their energy. Some are compliments. Some are…

In English, you feel blue when you are sad. You see red when you are angry. Chinese does the same thing — but the colours land in completely unexpected places.…

It is not a mistake. It is not an accent thing. It is a habit so deeply wired into how Chinese people communicate that it follows them even when they switch…

Every character started as a drawing. A picture of something real — an animal, a natural force, a shape in the world. Over thousands of years those drawings…