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Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: It Happened Over Lunch
There are plenty of Chinese textbooks that claim to teach basic Chinese but are in fact utterly useless in everyday situations like the one we found …
16 years, 4 months ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced: The Narcoleptic Hangglider
We know what you're thinking: how did I ever get to such an advanced level in Chinese without learning the words for narcolepsy or hangglider? This i…
16 years, 5 months ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced listening test: The Warehouse Scene
Our lesson for today is an advanced listening test. And while it's quite difficult, if you've seen Reservoir Dogs, the setup should be familiar. Minu…
16 years, 5 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: Who Stole My Subtitles
This is not a lesson about the disappointment we felt on buying a copy of The Matrix Reloaded at our local DVD store back in 2003 only to end up watc…
16 years, 5 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: The Chinese Alphabet Song
"But the Chinese language doesn't have an alphabet," the perspicacious listener might ask, "why on earth does China need an alphabet song?" Which is …
16 years, 6 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: Mamma Mia
"Is Echo really sleeping?" Apple had to raise her voice to overpower the sound of Pierce Brosnan's distant crooning. A moment later as the chorus to …
16 years, 6 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: The Electrical Outlet
Trips to Hong Kong, Singapore and across the mainland are a mainstay of life for most foreign professionals in Asia. Couple that with the fact that m…
16 years, 7 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: A Clean Well-Lighted Place
As Alex struggled to finish his thesis in the only Internet cafe still open in this part of Wuhan, he quietly prayed the air would clear as the eveni…
16 years, 7 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: The Secret Lives of Celebrities
It's been a while since we've released a lesson for absolute beginners, but we're back in the saddle today with a sequel of sorts to our earlier podc…
16 years, 7 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: Feel My Total Indifference
So, you've woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning to start hauling yourself out of bed when a minor epiphany strikes. Why get out of bed at all…
16 years, 8 months ago