Christmas Special Mailbag | Real Chinese Greetings, Flying Fears & Festive Facts
It’s our Christmas Special Mailbag.We answer listener questions about real Chinese greetings, why “Ni Hao Ma” sounds unnatural, fear of flying explained by a pilot, and how to type pinyin with tone ma...
19 Joulu 20251h 10min
Why Your Chinese Sounds “Weird” and the UK Citizenship Test Quiz | Ep 438
Ula explains why some dictionary and app translations feel unnatural, and shares a new Mandarin dictionary app recommendation. Then we mess around with a sound-guessing game, chat about school plays, ...
17 Joulu 202548min
Why 'How Are You' Fails in Chinese | Bilingual Mandarin Podcast
Why doesn’t “How are you?” really exist in Chinese?In this episode, we talk about how Chinese people show care without asking about feelings. Food, warmth, sleep, and daily life matter more than emoti...
12 Joulu 20251h 1min
Listener Mailbag: Soft Mandarin Broke My Brain
Friday mailbag time. Chinese and English together, as always.Today you get listener stories about:• Stress gestures that looked like a love confession • Soft Mandarin that sounded like poetry underwat...
5 Joulu 202551min
UK Food Labels, Taiwan Life, And Christmas Nonsense Bilingual Chat
A bilingual Mandarin and English episode filled with Christmas nonsense, food talk, and some heavier life planning.We talk about UK food labels, sugar overload, and why buying cheese feels like a heal...
3 Joulu 202537min
Mailbag 434: Real Mandarin Problems, Real Fixes
Friday mailbag. Mandarin and English. Real listener questions.We start with a chat about long-term goals. Safety, peace, fun, love and connection. Where we want the kids to be in ten years. Where we w...
28 Marras 202549min
Our Most Random Podcast Start Ever | Bilingual | Chinese and English
This episode starts in the strangest way possible, then turns into a full life update. We talk about Kairi wanting to learn Chinese, Dragon Ball socks, why none of us sleep, work changes, and the chao...
26 Marras 20251h 12min
The Mandarin Lip Reading Game Goes Wrong
We skip the small talk and jump straight into chaos. One of us wears noise-cancelling headphones with brown noise blasting. The other says sentences in Mandarin and English. The goal is simple. Lip re...
19 Marras 202533min
