Chinese New Year, that is. This is the Year of the Horse.
The two years that I took Mandarin Chinese at the local community college, we always took a "field trip" to the nearby Chinese Cultural Center to soak up the festivities and celebrate this most important Chinese holiday period. We were required to purchase or ask about something, but of course we had to use only Mandarin, and were graded (leniently) by our Chinese professor.
It was fun times. Most of the Mandarin vocabulary (and Chinese characters) have receded into my long-term memory cells. But the culture we absorbed as a by-product of learning the language will stay with me forever.
2 comments:
nice picture~
i can't take credit for it. it comes courtesy of the BBC website.
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