My friend Gabriel, over at learnchinesetoday.info has written a guest post based about histoical figure Qin Shi Huang and his influence on the Chinese Language.As some of you may know, the official title of 'emperor' was first used by Qin Shi Huang several hundred years before Christ. At the end of the 7 warring states period, the Qin state had conquered most of the other states and unified China properly.Historically speaking, it was true...

Chinese Mandarin may not have an Alphabet but its Numerical system is very logical, much more so than the English number system. Here are the first ten numbers0 零 / 〇 líng1 一 yī2 二 èr3 三 sān4 四 sì5 五 wǔ6 六 iù7 七 qī8 八 bā9 九 jiǔ10 十 shíOnce you have mastered these you have basically mastered the numerical system upto 99. So just to give you an idea here are the next ten numbers in Chinese.11...

"To be calm and unhurried"从容不迫cóng róng bù pò / cong2 rong2 bu4 po4Photo Source:Flickr: Yakobu...