What's your first impression for Mongolia? The people who are riding in the horse and living in Yurt(portable, round tent) as nomads, or mascular warriors who are good at riding a horse and archery like Genghis Khan? These might be typical first impression when it comes to Mongolia, but I would introduce Mongolian music today—Khoomei.
Jin Yong's wuxia novels are the most famous ones in the Mandarin-speaking regions. Over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide. Most of his novels are also adapted into dramas, mobile games, video games, and movies.
There are two main Mandarin-language proficiency tests. One is TOCFL, Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language, and it is the standardized test of Taiwanese Mandarin language proficiency of Taiwan for non-native speakers. The other is HSK, The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, translated as the Chinese Proficiency Test, is the standardized test of Standard Chinese language proficiency of Mainland China for non-native speakers. Let's compare the difference beteween them in the following table!
"Listen to Mom's Words" is a song sung by Jay Chou and written by himself, which is included in the album "Still Fantasy". He called the song an autobiography. In 2006, this song was selected as the textbook contents for the first grade of the experimental national elementary school affiliated to Taipei University of Education, on the grounds that its lyrics have subtle educational significance
Still get frustrated about no Pinyin and translation provided when watching Mandarin-speaking videos/series dramas/movies? Let's watch them with LR dobule subtitles!
🚀🚀Mandarin Meta 華語元宇宙 