你好！你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo! Nǐ hǎo ma?) This is Mandarin Chinese, the most widely spoken language in the world. I hope you are OK. The last time we officially went to North America, but our destiny was the non-contiguous states conforming the American Union and why they were neglected in US professional football.

This week we arrive in Asia, because today marks a new year in the agricultural calendar, according to its literal meaning (农历新年 (nónglì xīnnián)), and today is a celebration called Spring Festival (春节(chūnjié)). The rest of the world knows it as the Chinese New Year, which is the beginning of the Year of the Ox, the year 4719. 

Musical Recommendation 1

Due to the topic of this text, I experienced several troubles when choosing a song to enlighten it: picking a Chinese melody or one belonging to minorities. So I decided to blend the best of both worlds and the result is this song: 大漠 (Dàmò), “Great Dessert” in English, performed by the dizi maestroMa Di (马迪, Mǎ Dí). This is about the desert located in Northern China, the Gobi desert, which serves as a border with Mongolia and takes us back to the times of the Silk Road.