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How to Write "Lemonade" in Chinese Symbols

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Summary: Learn how to write "Lemonade" in Chinese Symbols with expert tips on writing and pronouncing Chinese characters in this free language lesson video clip.

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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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"Okay, now let's learn the Chinese word for "lemonade". "Ning meng shui". Okay, can you still remember "ning meng" exactly. It means the fruit, "lemon". And in both characters, they contain this is what we call "tree charac, tree radical". Because lemon is kind of tree, as we know in the sound "lemon tree". And the right part of both characters are the pronunciation part. This exactly pronounces "ning", and in the second "meng" the right part pronounces exactly as "meng". Don't forget, here, there is a very short horizontal stroke in the middle. And the last character, "shui", is "water". "Lemon water" is the literal meaning of "ning meng shui". So, it's "lemonade". Okay, let's write "ning meng shui" again. "Ning meng shui", "lemonade"."

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