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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
Popup Chinese — Elementary: Guitar Hero
Mainlander tip: assuming you can get it back home in one piece (Air Canada considers guitar strings weapons....), a guitar is one of the best purchas…
17 years, 11 months ago
Popup Chinese — Film Friday: Military Adventures
If this week's clip doesn't get you in the mood to toss out that Chinese dictionary and start blowing things up nothing will. There may not be much i…
17 years, 11 months ago
Popup Chinese — Fun with Tones: The Second Tone
Now that you've mastered the giddy highs of the first tone, it's time to move onto something a bit more challenging: tone number two. Despite the fac…
17 years, 11 months ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: Blackout
Your company is finally making a significant push onto the Chinese mainland. There are several options under consideration by the board: partnering w…
17 years, 11 months ago
Popup Chinese — Film Friday: Revenge of the Smurfs
You'd be forgiven for thinking this movie was about those blue elves running all over your television on Sunday morning. But you wouldn't be too far …
17 years, 11 months ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced listening test: Traffic Jam
Not too far from where you're melting in the summer heat, you can see a bus wrapped snugly like a fat Buddha in a nest of minivans and three-wheeled …
17 years, 11 months ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced: Regional Dialect Party Mix
In today's podcast we throw three regional dialects into one big party mix, and end up with something that reminds us a lot of Mad Max Beyond Thunder…
17 years, 11 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: Thanks for the Tractor....
Today we give you the keys to the Middle Kingdom, in the form of two magical sounds that will amaze and baffle your conversation partners in turn. Us…
17 years, 11 months ago
Popup Chinese — Film Friday: A Mother's Touch
This week Film Friday takes a break from showcasing famous scenes you probably remember in order to present you with this utterly forgettable one. As…
17 years, 11 months ago