Newbie | Your Mandarin Is Really Good!
No matter where you are in China, Chinese people will be lavishing praise on you the moment you're able to utter even a simple "hello" or "thank you" in barely distinguishable Chinese. It's important ...
9 Sep 202214min
Elementary | Basketball Game
It's time to check out a basketball game. In this lesson, learn the word for 'basketball game', and more importantly, how to say you're free to go watch! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/2075
7 Sep 202214min
Newbie | Power Outage
There are a few things ChinesePod is scared of: 1. Having to be constrained to a classroom seat to learn language 2. Animals dressed as humans 3. The dark …so, over the next few months, we will addres...
5 Sep 202213min
Elementary | Hangover
Your head aches, your mouth is dry and your stomach is churning, but you're not sick. You had a lot of fun last night, maybe too much fun... In this lesson, learn how to talk about feeling under weath...
2 Sep 202215min
Newbie | I Didn’t Bring My Umbrella
“Ah,” you say (in Mandarin), “it’s raining and I don’t have my….” (stopping short here to describe curvy handle with fabric cover except that you don’t know how to say “curvy,” “handle,” or “fabric,” ...
31 Aug 202213min
Elementary | Tortoise and the Hare
Granted, the names might have changed, but the story stays the same. The same story that got [Artist Previously Known as Rian the Intern] through some rough times. The least we can do is share it with...
30 Aug 202216min
Newbie | Which Character Is That?
When you hear a Chinese person's name, you can be reasonably sure that each syllable is a character and that the first character is the surname. But with thousands of Chinese characters, you often won...
26 Aug 202212min
Elementary | The Monks in the Temple on the Mountain
Did you ever hear the one about the Monks in the Temple on the Mountain? We have--in fact, the Monks in the Temple on the Mountain is one of our favorites… so much so that in this podcast we’d like to...
24 Aug 202213min
