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Newbie | Hold the MSG
Some people are addicted to coke, others to crystal meth, but for the Chinese, the white powder of choice is none other than MSG. True, the MSG high leads to jacked up tasting pleasure, but if you wa…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Elementary | Cheering
Whether you've headed to this lesson because you're feeling a little lethargic in your study efforts, or because the idea of a cheerleader egging you on brings you some sort of post-jock high school …
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Newbie | Key Card
Just when you learned the Chinese word for 'key', technology had to come in and mess it all up for you. In this podcast, check-in to your hotel with us, in Mandarin, and feel the sense of accomplishm…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Elementary | Dublin
In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet....Ken Carroll!?? Whilst Ken may not be as hot as Molly Malone, he certainly knows his way about Dublin. Listen to t…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Newbie | Chinese Breakfast
The visions you're having of glistening bacon and bottomless coffee might very soon be dashed. A lumpy curdled bowl of soy product and noodles a la oil don't appeal at 7:00 am? Wait till you taste...…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Elementary | Going Dutch
The 'Warring Bills' period of Chinese history is officially over for all ChinesePod users. An international treating treaty has been declared, and it involves a handy little phrase that will be an in…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Newbie | So Tall!
Granted, the 'you're tall' compliments have gotten fewer and farther between since Yao Ming had to come on the scene and wreck it for all of us. However, you can still milk some around here... just g…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Elementary | Event Times
We are not talking about the starting time of your own athletic competition... the last of which was probably field day at your junior high school where you took home the purple "honorable mention" r…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Newbie | Give Me a Kiss
Mouths were intended to be used for so much more than speaking Chinese. Sometimes the language of love communicates better than the best vocabulary, so it never hurts to get a little lip service... I…
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Elementary | Bank Hours
You've camped out for U2 tickets, queued for boxing day sales... but the bank? Waiting outside the bank before it opens is a national pastime and community social event in China. So take your number …
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago