English/Lyrics: GUAN! GUAN! CRY THE FISH HAWKS from Zhounan (The Odes of Zhou and the South) Guan! Guan! Cry the fish hawks on sandbars in the river: a mild-mannered good girl, fine match for the gentleman. A ragged fringe is the floating-heart, left and right we trail it: that mild-mannered good girl, awake, asleep, I search for her. I search but cannot find her, awake, asleep, thinking of her, endlessly, endlessly, turning, tossing from side to side. A ragged fringe is the floating-heart, left and right we pick it: the mild-mannered good girl, harp and lute make friends with her. A ragged fringe is the floating-heart, left and right we sort it: the mild-mannered good girl, bell and drum delight her. [NOTES] This Chinese traditional song composed from a poem more than three thousand years old of a Noble Chinese man consumed with love for a lowly water plant harvester. Zhounan: (The Odes of Zhou and the South) In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Lord Dan of Zhou (reigned 1063-1057 BC) made Luo City (today’s Luoyang City in Henan Province) its capital and from there he ruled over other dukes. The poems in Zhounan are that from Zhou and the states south of Zhou, covering an area of today’s Henan and Hubei Provinces. The river : The Yellow River. Beautiful Chinese Music Traditional Playlist www.youtube.com

The great Lancang-Mekong River and its numerous tributaries form a giant network for both irrigation and navigation. But while these aspects of the great water system are positive, in the past the numerous rivers made it difficult for different communities to maintain contact. A local dream cherished for a very long time has been to turn the rivers into passageways for convenient transportation, and efforts to realize this dream have never ceased. Now, thanks to the realization of this dream along the Lancang-Mekong River, not only has international friendship been established, but many trans-national marriage cases have resulted. In this program we will see the world’s widest waterfall, the positive changes occurring in local life as a result of river dredging, Chinese language teaching in the small town of Chiang Saen in Thailand, the story of a Chinese merchant who has established a successful career in the shipping business, the life of a Vietnamese girl on the Mekong River, and the romance of a Chinese construction worker in Vietnam.

Esplanade Presents: YFEST 2010 An Evening full of Supah Heroes Recorded at the Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore Composer: ????Arranger: Mr. Tan Kah Yong Conductor: Mr. Mike Chiang Become a fan on FB: www.facebook.com Under the baton of Mr. Mike Chiang, NYPCO has grown to become a young and upcoming orchestra with 120 members and alumni. The orchestra experiments with a myriad of repertoire from contemporary pop songs, western classical to traditional Chinese music. With the support of NYP and the SAO Ms. Karen Ang, NYPCO has staged many successful performances locally and in overseas. In 2007, the orchestra competed at the 18th Australian International Music Festival in Sydney and received full marks – a first is the history of the competition. They were then invited to play for the Command Performance at the Sydney Opera House. In 2008, the inaugural Hong Kong International Music Festival was held and the orchestra performed at the HK Disneyland, HK Cultural Center and some of the members had the chance to perform with the top-notch professionals from the HK Chinese Orchestra. NYPCO was also invited to perform for the Beautiful Sunday series at the Esplanade in ’06 ’07 and ’09. It is a monthly program that is free for the public to inculcate the public with the love for the arts. In conjunction with the Youth Olympic Games 2010, NYPCO was invited by Esplanade to present a concert titled Supah Heroes in the Youth Festival 2010.

Out of every twenty residents of Hong Kong, there is one ethnic minority living here. Surveys show over 40% of them are suffering from unemployment or unstable job security due to the language barrier and a lack of resources in access to quality Chinese language education. In order to promote racial equality in the territory, Hong Kong Unison, a public charitable institution, organizes an annual hiking event named “Hikathon” to fight for equal education opportunities and quality Chinese education for all Hong Kong residents, especially the ethnic minorities. For more information on Hong Kong Unison, please visit their website at www.unison.org.hk ?????????????????????????????40?????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????”???”??????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????www.unison.org.hk Credits: Shirley Han Ying – Producer, Videographer, Video/Audio Editor (??????????/????) Chris Gelken – Producer, Videographer (???????) Amy Liou – Production Coordinator, Script Translator (?????????) Steven Bailey – Production Assistant (????) Rosina Shing – Production Assistant (????) Music “Quasi Motion” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″. www.ridealist.com

www.yoyochinese.com What is Pinyin? Why is Pinyin so important? What are the four tones? Why are they so important? In this lesson, seasoned Chinese instructor Yangyang will answer the above questions and guide viewers painlessly through the basics of Pinyin, the foundation of Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. You will have a clear understanding about the Chinese sound system after this lesson. For comlete Pinyin lessons, please go to: www.yoyochinese.com.

www.Rocket-Language.us RocketChinese is an online Mandarin Chinese learning course created and administered by Lin Ping. But does this course really work? Can it help you to grasp the intricacies of the Chinese language? Rocket Chinese reviews are overall positive and there is no doubt that the Rocket Languages brand is a trusted and experienced foreign language teaching company, but this still doesn’t answer the question of whether or not this course can teach you total Mandarin Chinese. No online language course can make you talk like a native Chinese citizen. However, you can come close and attain a good grasp of the language, be able to speak it, enjoy a wide vocabulary, a decent grammatical control, and the ability to understand the language when it is spoken to you. I believe that the 5 modules of Rocket Chinese can help you to achieve this goal. http Module 1: The first module of Rocket Chinese helps you to speak Chinese Mandarin fluently. You have 31 audio lessons in this module, and by the end of these lessons you’ll be able to handle yourself in Chinese. Module 2: Grammar and Cultural tips – In this advanced module you take what you learned in module 1 and hone it down until you sound as if you’ve been speaking the language for years. In this part you will also learn cultural tips which will help you make a good impression among Chinese people. Module 3: This is the MegaVocab software which can help expand you Mandarin vocabulary in an easy and fast way. The …

English/Lyrics: GUAN! GUAN! CRY THE FISH HAWKS from Zhounan (The Odes of Zhou and the South) Guan! Guan! Cry the fish hawks on sandbars in the river: a mild-mannered good girl, fine match for the gentleman. A ragged fringe is the floating-heart, left and right we trail it: that mild-mannered good girl, awake, asleep, I search for her. I search but cannot find her, awake, asleep, thinking of her, endlessly, endlessly, turning, tossing from side to side. A ragged fringe is the floating-heart, left and right we pick it: the mild-mannered good girl, harp and lute make friends with her. A ragged fringe is the floating-heart, left and right we sort it: the mild-mannered good girl, bell and drum delight her. [NOTES] This Chinese traditional song composed from a poem more than three thousand years old of a Noble Chinese man consumed with love for a lowly water plant harvester. Zhounan: (The Odes of Zhou and the South) In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Lord Dan of Zhou (reigned 1063-1057 BC) made Luo City (today’s Luoyang City in Henan Province) its capital and from there he ruled over other dukes. The poems in Zhounan are that from Zhou and the states south of Zhou, covering an area of today’s Henan and Hubei Provinces. The river : The Yellow River. Beautiful Chinese Music Traditional Playlist www.youtube.com

Learn the Chinese symbols for auditor withtips on writing and pronouncing Chinese characters from a Chinese language specialist in this free video on Chinese words and phrases. Expert: Esther-Xiaohua Liu Bio: Esther-Xiaohua Liu is currently a graduate student and teaching assistant with a major in Chinese Literature and Languages at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

An interview with Julien Gaudfroy, a young French man who is making a name for himself as a performer of cross talk (??), a traditional type of Chinese stand-up comedy. He explains the art of cross talking and how he started his career on the Chinese stage.

This lesson covers ‘How to Ask For Directions’ in Chinese and responses you may encounter. It’d be fairly useful for even those who are visiting a Mandarin-speaking country for a short time. For further discussion, please go to the forums: www.peggyteacheschinese.com