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Newbie | Feminine Products
A man writes these intros. He doesn’t have a “special time” each month. He also realizes that being funny about needing feminine products isn’t funny. So he’ll simply say, “Here’s a Mandarin Chinese …
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Elementary | A Walk In The Park
Yes, using ChinesePod makes learning Mandarin a walk in the park – thank you. But this lesson is actually about walking in the park--not the in the metaphorical sense… ugh. Let’s make this easy for b…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Newbie | Black Or Green Tea
You know (from watching Tom Hanks save the world again) that lemon or milk depends on the brew, but would you be able to order a proper cup of PG Tips in Mandarin? Let’s hope so…no, wait, instead of …
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Elementary | Here Is Your Change
Surely you never thought that having change could be so important. However, when you pull out one of the “hundred dollar bills” (not as much as it sounds), you just may be leaving without anything. I…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Newbie | Business Cards (original)
They’re handed out for any and every reason…but what do you say? “Thanks” might seem a little bland, but then again, “WOW! You’ve such fine taste in paper!” might be a bit over the top. So then what?…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Elementary | Going To The Doctor
A big house full of needles, beds with restraints and gloves that are lubed for a reason and you still think “winging it” at the hospital will get you by? For those less confident, it’s Dr. Ken and N…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Newbie | Ouch!
Fact: no matter how prepared you are for it; you will take that piece of chicken and bite down hard. Fact: most chicken here comes still on the bone, no matter the size Fact: the face you make upon l…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Elementary | He's Boring
Hard as it is to believe, as we look out our window to people doing tai chi in pajamas and 6:00am ballroom dancing with perfect hair--there might be a few “dullards” in your life. In this far from bo…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Newbie | I'm Hungry!
Although we don’t foresee you—after being force-fed fruit an hour after a 14-dish meal (on those cool tables that spin around)—suffering from “hunger pains,” there might be a chance that your Chinese…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Elementary | Baby Talk: Your Baby Looks Like You!
Explaining in another language that you “have your father’s eyes” is dangerous, seeing as a simple grammatical mistake could mean you actually took them from him…which won’t get you invited to stay i…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago