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The Spring Festival What is Chinese New Year?  Chinese New Year or also known as Spring Festival is a celebration that begins with the first new moon and ends in the first full moon of the Chinese lunar calendar; it is celebrated in China, Vietnam, Singapore, Korea and a lot of different East Asian countries.  This festivity can be traced back to thousands of years ago, during the spring festival farmers could rest from their work in the fields, and family members would travel from near and far to welcome the new year with their loved ones.  The history behind the Spring festival 春节 The Lunar New Year can be traced back to 3500 years ago; even though there is not an exact date on when it was created, it's believed that it started in the Shang Dynasty, because in the winter people held ceremonies and sacrifices to gods and ancestors. Then, in the Zhou Dynasty, the term 年 was introduced. And it had become a social practice to offer sacrifices to ancestors or gods, also they...

Different methods to study Chinese   There are a lot of different ways to practice a language; it can be through books, music, Apps and even through TV shows, but there are always new methods to keep improving your language skills. In this case, I'm going to be sharing one of my favorite methods, which is: practicing my language skill with recipes. This method is both efficient and delicious.  This is a great method, because you can practice your reading and listening skills, and you will learn a lot of common vocabulary. There is a variety of recipes, and the speed in which they talk is usually a lot slower than vlogs or other types of content, so it's easier to understand.  How to use recipes to practice Chinese  The first thing you need to do is find the right recipe for you, it depends on what you are looking for, if you want a challenge and complex vocabulary the best option is to choose one that is made by a chef or in a cooking show, but if you are looking for...

 Let's talk about Chinese Music As most of you already know, immersion is a big part of learning a language, and one of the easiest ways to do this is through music. But when learning Chinese, music might not be the best way to improve your pronunciation, because Chinese is a tonal language, and when singing sometimes the tones can get lost, but this doesn't mean that it's impossible to study through music; there are still multiple ways in which music can help you improve your language skills.  Methods to study through Music If you want to improve your reading, you can try reading lyrics and translating them. This can really help you with your comprehension, because lyrics tend to be filled with metaphors. I usually use short songs and the ones in which the vocabulary is familiar to me. The artist I like the most for this method is: Deca Joins, I think the vocabulary in their lyrics is relatively simple. If you want to try translating some songs, I recommend the following: ...

Simplified and traditional characters What's the difference between simplified and traditional Chinese?  Well the biggest difference is the appearance of the characters, for example:  爱, 不过, 担心, 说 these are all written in simplified Chinese, meanwhile the following are in traditional Chinese: 愛, 不過, 擔心, 說. They all have the same meaning, only their appearance and amount of strokes changes. Another thing that changes is where they are used, simplified Chinese is mainly used in mainland China, Singapore, and Malaysia, meanwhile traditional Chinese it's used in Taiwan, Hong Kong (Cantonese) and Macau.  Simplified Chinese was created in 1949 to improve China's literacy rate, the amount of characters that change between both systems is around 2,000, but it is still possible to learn both.  My experience with both systems  I first started to learn Traditional Chinese and I have been learning it for around 2 and half years, then six months ago I started to learn simpli...