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Intermediate | Animal Proverbs: Become A Pig To Catch A Tiger
Animal metaphors are prevalent in almost every language, but people from different cultures may regard the same animal differently. In Chinese prover…
4 years, 11 months ago
Pre-intermediate | My Computer Froze!
Situation: You’re working on a document at your office and your computer suddenly freezes up. What do you do? 1. Flail arms around until someone noti…
4 years, 11 months ago
Upper-intermediate | Bargaining
You’ll get here and pay 15 yuan for a DVD and wonder why people laugh when you tell them. We don’t want people laughing at you--thus the lesson of th…
4 years, 11 months ago
Intermediate | Future Plans
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, surely college made something out of you, right? In this podcast, Jenny takes the reins (with Ken the…
4 years, 11 months ago
Pre-intermediate | Morning Hygiene
A few cultural tips on “personal upkeep” here: 1. Most Chinese bathe at night. 2. Chairman Mao used tea to brush his teeth. 3. Toilet paper is thrown…
4 years, 11 months ago
Upper-intermediate | World Cup Football
To be honest, we have had this lesson ready to go for a month, and would like to say we timed it for the first week of Germany’s World Cup Football e…
4 years, 11 months ago
Intermediate | China’s Supergirl
Sure, Simon pierced many a hope with his sharp Cockney tongue, but no “Pop Idol”, nor its 1000 spin-off shows grabbed a country by its (silk) lapels …
4 years, 11 months ago
Pre-intermediate | Cooking
How and where did “chow main” get its name? “Kung Pao” is a dish and not a (brilliant) film? Someone must have their mouth full of “kuaizi” and not t…
4 years, 11 months ago
Upper-intermediate | The Monkey King
In Wu Cheng’en’s novel “Journey to the West”, a hero was born…in the form of a monkey. In this podcast, Jenny and Aggie offer up Mandarin Chinese ins…
4 years, 11 months ago
Intermediate | Animal Proverbs: Hit The Snake 7 Inches Below Its Head
Animal metaphors are prevalent in almost every language, but people from different cultures may regard the same animal differently. In Chinese prover…
4 years, 11 months ago