WTF Did You Just Call Me? (China Edition)
/"What do you call somebody from Xi'an? Xi'anian? Xi'aner? Xi'anese?"
Read More"What do you call somebody from Xi'an? Xi'anian? Xi'aner? Xi'anese?"
Read MoreOnce I started jotting down ideas for this article, I couldn’t stop. It turns out that over the years, I’ve learned a lot about living abroad and what that does to a person.
Read MoreI never expected to move to China, nor begin to learn Mandarin. Yet while the language may be totally unfamiliar, the process of learning a language from scratch is not. I wrote about how already speaking French has helped me to tackle this third language for Babbel Magazine, which is the official online publication of one of the worlds largest online language learning resources.
Read MoreHow comfortable would you feel speaking your second language… on national television?
This is a question I got to answer recently, when I was asked to appear on a well-known French travel show, Echappées Belles.
Read MoreI met Bianca in the boxing gym, but in real life she is a translator and interpreter. She has been in France for 10 years now, and has built a strong and successful business. I’m fascinated and impressed by the way she has completely mastered the language, and the mental gymnastics she performs every single working day.
In exchange for Thai takeaway, Bianca let me grill her on the ins and outs of her fascinating job.
Read MoreSpeaking French is not a simple matter of flicking a switch and carrying on with life. It is inextricably related to feelings of legitimacy, falsehood, belonging and alienation. It is associated with anger and frustration, inadequacy, stupidity, and triumph. It is related to who and what I am, my place in the world around me and a constant negotiation and re-negotiation of meaning, intention and power.
Read MoreAnna Hartley is an Australian writer based in Paris.
In January 2024, I completed a Master of Science in Sustainability in Energy Provision and Demand Management from the Centre for Alternative Technology Graduate School of the Environment.
For my dissertation, for which I received a distinction grade, I created a prototype software (CELESTE) designed to educate, inspire, and empower users to develop their own Renewable Energy Communities in France.
We’re zigzagging through streets beside the Seine River, and despite the fact that I’ve lived in Paris for the best part of a decade, I feel as if I’m seeing it all anew.
In May 2020, China became the first major country in the world to introduce a central bank digital currency. Initially only available to select users in trial cities, it is now gaining ground across the country.
China is the world's largest producer and consumer of plastic products. But a series of new laws in effect since January 2020 aim to significantly reduce plastic pollution over five years. So are these goals realistic and is China willing to kick its plastic addiction?
Many women and young girls in China, especially in rural areas, cannot afford feminine hygiene products. The lack of basic menstrual knowledge and the common menstruation taboo in China only worsen the situation. FRANCE 24 met with Chinese women who are fighting to change the situation.
Rentrer en famille célébrer l'Année du Buffle malgré un voyage parsemé de restrictions anti-Covid? Ou rester seul à #Pékin comme l'incitent à le faire les autorités? Le dilemme agite les Chinois travaillant dans la capitale. Reportage France 24 de Charles Pellegrin, Anna Hartley et Zhifan Liu.
The Chinese city of Wuhan, epicentre of the disease, continues to show signs of recovery in terms of health and its economy. Local officials report GDP is close to 90 percent of its level before the outbreak. FRANCE 24 correspondent Charles Pellegrin filed this report with Anna Hartley and Charlie Wang.
Plus d'un an après l'apparition du virus SARS-CoV-2 à Wuhan en Chine, la vie reprend son cours normalement ou presque. Car, l'épidémie a laissé des traces à bien des égards. Reportage de notre correspondant, Charles Pellegrin.
“This adventure of mine was oriented around the Chinese heartlands and the core myths that are at the heart of Chinese history and modern society.”
This second pregnancy is nothing like my first. I am calm, cocooning. I do my exercises, occasionally even yoga. I have an ample supply of comfortable maternity clothes and a giant (and I mean giant) horseshoe pillow that encloses and immobilises me in a firm hold at night. Sshhh. It whispers. I got you.
I am on top of my medical appointments. I take my vitamins and monitor my blood pressure. I have been registered at the maternity hospital since around the third month of my pregnancy. My husband and I spent about 15 minutes discussing a baby name, decided, smiling, and haven’t wavered since.
I am, in short, having almost the opposite experience as my first pregnancy.