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How to Write "Football" in Chinese

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Summary: Learn how to write & pronounce the Chinese symbol (character) for football in this free Chinese language lesson on video.

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By Xi Chen
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Xi Chen got her Certificate of Teaching Chinese As a Foreign Language in 2005, one of less than 5,000 certificate holders across China. Recently, she was newly appointed program...read more

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"Ok now lets learn the Chinese word for football in English, and rugby in British English, gan lan qiu. Qiu no problem its ball in Chinese, and gan lan is olive, and we know the football in rugby is olive shaped so that?s why in Chinese we call it gan lan qiu. And gan lan we have already learned this word, both contain this tree radical. And the right part of either character is its pronunciation part, here this part is pronounced as gan the same pronunciation as with the whole character gan. And the second character, the right part is pronounced as lan, the same lan, as with this tree radical here, and here is the qiu. Ok let?s see gan lan qiu again. I'm writing from left to right, here the horizontal should cross the two verticals, one is shorter and one is longer. Gan lan qiu football in English and rugby in British English."

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