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Popup Chinese — Quiz Night: Battle of the Antipodes
In our fourth episode of Quiz Night, Tony from New Zealand matches matches his wits against Will from Australia in a battle that covers everything fr…
13 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Quiz Night: Attack of the Fascist Refreshments
Nazi refreshments, racist stereotypes from the 1980s and boy bands that refuse to die. Such are just a few of the topics you can expect this week on …
13 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Quiz Night: Communist beards we know and love
After succumbing last episode to Brendan's wide-ranging knowledge of everything save contemporary pop music, Echo has switched sides this week to ser…
13 years, 4 months ago
Popup Chinese — Quiz Night: Welcome to the Quiz Show
This is the pilot episode of a new concept show we're developing for upper-intermediate students: a quiz game featuring mostly Chinese questions with…
13 years, 5 months ago
Popup Chinese — Film Friday: Tearing it Up
Our clip today has it all: useful language for subverting the local establishment while showcasing the amazing vocal diversity in mainland film-dubbi…
14 years, 4 months ago
Popup Chinese — Movies: Let the Bullets Fly / 让子弹飞
In our inaugural episode of the Popup Chinese movie show, opinions split over Let the Bullets Fly, the Chinese western directed by Jiang Wen and star…
14 years, 7 months ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: The Sleeping Beauty
"The princess goes to sleep and wakes up again," Gail told us, making the fairy tale sound about as pedestrian as Echo's nightly routine. When presse…
15 years, 6 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: Ordering Pizza
If you ask most foreigners for random trivia about Tianjin, they'll probably mention the foreign concessions, or Herbert Hoover fighting in the stree…
15 years, 6 months ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced listening test: The Summer Job
When the Harvard Crimson called the job market depressed, it may as well have been describing its readership. Browsing through the classifieds, Susan…
16 years, 1 month ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: Golden Monkey Throat Lozenges, Part II
You may have heard the slanderous rumours about our brand circulated by that other Golden Monkey pharmaceutical company. Don't believe the lies! Gold…
16 years, 1 month ago