308 Park

Sylvia Cruz is the Vice President of Finance and Strategy for EF Education First, as well as taking care of three young children, which means that when she is able to, she spends a lot of time in her local park with the children. ShaoLan teaches her the Chinese word for “park”, which then makes it easy to learn the words for some famous parks in Chinese, such as “Boston Common,” “Central Park” or “Yellowstone National Park,” which all use the same Chinese word to describe the “park” element. Quite apart from the sense of nature only, ShaoLan also explains the how the second part of the word for park is used to describe a nursery/kindergarten!

The Chinese word for “park” is very logical, it is 公園/公园, where the first character means “public” and the second character means “garden,” so the “public garden” is “the park.” Once again, to specify which kind of park you are talking about, just add other characters beforehand, such as 小公園/小公园 “little park,” 國家公園/国家公园 “National Park” or 中央公園/中央公园 “Central Park.”