This video continues with terms for clothing.

It's time to learn about different occupations.

Let's continue with the different occupations.

When you combine different Chinese characters, you can make different words. Let's now learn some terms for modes of transportation.

This video continues with transportation terminology.

Let's learn the names of home appliances.

Let's learn some more home appliance terms.

The Chinese characters for animals oftentimes look like the animals themselves.

As a pictographic language, Chinese characters often look like the objects they represent.

If you look at the character for elephant, one might see a representation of the elephant with a long trunk, four legs and a tail. This is why Chinese is known as a "pictographic" language.

In the Chinese language, you can combine characters together to form a different word.

This video talks about the Chinese words for plants.

If you look at the characters related to plants, you will notice that most of them contain the "tree" or "grass" radicals.

This video teaches you how to say the names of some musical instruments.

This video teaches you how to say the names of some sports and hobbies.

Gain a quick overview of the most important festivals in the Chinese calendar.

Dashan is the Chinese stage name adopted by Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell. Dashan is unique in that he is the only foreigner who has become a domestic Chinese celebrity. In this video, he performs Xiangsheng (相声), a form of Chinese comedy. Xiangsheng is commonly translated as "cross talk."

A highlight of Chinese food markets is the large amount of fresh, delicious, and affordable fruit. Check out this video and learn how to buy fruit in China!

Shanghai's Yu Garden is a must-see for any visitor to the city. In this video, check out not only the garden itself, but also the the very Shanghainese area around it as well.

This well-known story commonly used to educate children on the values of courtesy and fraternal love involves four-year-old Kong Rong giving up some larger pears to his older and younger brothers. Still employed in current times, this text has been used for elementary education since the Song Dynasty.

The Chinese idiom, "San Xin Er Yi," literally means, "Three hearts, two thoughts." It can be used to describe someone who splits his energy between many things instead of focusing on one task at a time. The simple vocabulary in this video gives an example of "San Xin Er Yi."

This idiom is used as a metaphor for the punishment of a person to alert others to correct their behavior.

Hear the story from which the saying, "Hun Shui Mo Yu" came about. It means to take advantage of a chaotic time or deliberately create confusion to obtain benefits.

This Chinese idiom advises people not to give up halfway through or leave something unfinished.