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Popup Chinese — Elementary: Wireless Internet
One of the advantages of being multilingual is that your asset is your mind, so many job opportunities (assuming you want them) end up being as flexi…
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: Golden Monkey Throat Lozenges
Sore throat? Dry, hacking cough? Golden Monkey Throat lozenges offer soothing relief from pain and a great orange taste! Listen to today's podcast fo…
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Fun with Tones: The Fourth Tone
What's that plummeting to the ground? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Our confidence? The stock market? No... this time it's the fourth tone, the eldest…
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced: Nanluoguxiang — the cafe district
Five years ago there wasn't a single cafe in this old hutong district a mere ten minutes east of Houhai and the Drum Tower. Despite the explosion of …
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Elementary: Running Late
If you're anything like our own bedraggled staff, getting out of bed in the morning is one of the more vicious challenges of the day. Combine natural…
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Film Friday: Two Mothers
Today's selection takes us back once more to the halcyon days of the 1980s. Most of us in the office were too young to have seen this film in theater…
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate listening test: The Argument
More than a social lubricant, the apology is a survival skill, because even when you're right, you often risk getting beaten by your significant othe…
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Fun with Tones: The Third Tone
Now that we've spent a few days practicing the first two tones it's time we intercede before you give everyone the impression mandarin is spoken in f…
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Film Friday: Perilous Straits
This week we present you with a Hollywood classic based loosely on a book based loosely on reality. In the process, we have to deal with incomprehens…
17 years, 10 months ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: Slacking Off
It's early Friday afternoon and you've just spent two exhausting hours checking your email, catching up on the latest blogs and thinking of how to st…
17 years, 11 months ago