Lesson 1: Very yellow, very violent

This really shouldn’t be the first lesson of this website but I wanted to get it in before its popularity dies out. Go read this Danwei.org entry for info on “China’s first online meme of 2008″.

很黄很暴力
hěnhúang hěnbàolì

This phrase, first used by a young girl to describe today’s internet (see it here), is actually two phrases: 很黄 (hěnhúang) and 很暴力 (hěnbàolì).