Category Archives: Chinese

Their face doesn’t say it all!

By admin | Published: 18 August 2009

It’s not just words that sometimes need translating across the globe. A study this month has concluded people from different cultures read facial expressions differently. Research on these cultural differences, carried out by a team largely from Glasgow University, showed that East Asian observers found it more difficult to distinguish some facial expressions. “We show that Easterners [...]

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Chinese New Year fit for the credit crunch?

By admin | Published: 27 January 2009

Yesterday saw the start of the Chinese New Year, celebrating the Year of the Ox. The festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month of the Chinese Calendar. This calendar far pre-dates the internationally used Gregorian calendar, with evidence of its use as far back as the second millennium BC. Naturally London will [...]

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More into Chinese language

By admin | Published: 9 December 2008

There is mixed news in a new report on languages in secondary schools from the National Centre for Languages (CiLT). They looked at a sample of schools across the UK in a survey they have carried out each year since 2002. First the good news. State schools in the UK are starting to offer a [...]

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