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Pre-intermediate | Coffee Break Series: How To Say No To Your Boss
In the coffee break series, we focus on social etiquette in business settings. In a Chinese workplace, there are certain phrases and words that we us…
3 years ago
Upper-intermediate | Group Photo
OK, everybody lean in, put your hands on your knees or around the person next to you. You in the back, two fingers behind someone’s head please. Now …
3 years ago
Intermediate | Subway Announcements
If the sound of the robot subway announcer lady’s hypnotic voice is your signal to zone out into a trance, this lesson is for you. In this lesson, fi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pre-intermediate | 3 Ways to Use mei 没
In this lesson, we're going to show you three usages of a really common Chinese character 没. They are 没 Verb, 还没 Verb, and when 没 is used for compari…
3 years, 1 month ago
Upper-intermediate | Pedestrian Peril
Just out for a leisurely stroll or... death wish? Map in hand, foot off curb, head in clouds... in China, not understanding the difference between le…
3 years, 1 month ago
Intermediate | Finding Live Music
The experts agree: China is an emerging power. But as a new superpower, what powers will it have on the world stage? Hopefully, one of them will be t…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pre-intermediate | How to use 要...了
In this lesson, we'll show you how to use sentence structures 要...了, 快要... 了 and 就要...了 and the differences between them! Episode link: https://www.c…
3 years, 1 month ago
Upper-intermediate | Bad Service Restaurant
Cold tea, warm water, sticky menu, dirty chopsticks, and why in the world won't they bring the stinking rice--isn't this CHINA?! You're starting to r…
3 years, 1 month ago
Intermediate | Lili and Zhang Liang 17: It's Over (Again)
In the spirit of "Choose Your Own Adventure" 1980s pre-teen novels, we revisit Zhang Liang and Lili and rewrite history with a "Choose Your Own Break…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pre-intermediate | How to use le 了
In this lesson, we'll show you how to use the particle le 了 in its change of state function. Learn how to say "I don't love you anymore" or "There's …
3 years, 1 month ago