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About Food, Language and currency (money)

pork dishes and vegetables from Shanghai regionFood

Browse the following websites about Chinese cuisine (food)

http://www.chinesefood-recipes.com/

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/food/ (about the history of Chinese food.)

http://chinesefood.about.com/library/blrecipe.htm

What type of food would you like to try? Each region in China has its own unique style of cuisine. What will you eat when you visit China?
Language and spoken Chinese

Charlene and James on the trail to see the Tiger Leaping GorgeListen to some spoken Chinese by James and Charlene (two Australians who lived in China for two years and worked as English teachers in Guilin and Hangzhou) ....find those places by doing a google search.

Listen to some spoken Chinese

James counting to ten (.mp3 412kb)

Hello, my name is Charlene (.wav 68kb)

I am James and I live in Hangzhou, near Shanghai. (.wav 99kb)

Currency

Chinese moneyRead about Chinese currency. There is a Chinese currecy converter on the site. Have a look at it and have a go at converting Australian dollars to Chinese currency.

When speaking, the Chinese refer to their currency as yuan. When it is written, it is written as RMB.