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Popup Chinese — Intermediate: The Gay Vampire, Part II
Our general standard for measuring podcast excellence is whether listening causes Gail to spit milk out her nose. By that standard we have a winner t…
17 years ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: The Gay Vampire
As recovering narcoleptics, we know a thing or two about shunning daylight, sleeping in coffins and going straight for the jugular. Sadly, in many pa…
17 years ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced: How to Speak Shanghainese
You may have been surprised on arrival in Shanghai to learn that no-one actually speaks mandarin there. Sure, the locals may call their language Chin…
17 years ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: I'm Hungry, You Fools!
Our biological clock is a natural wonder. It tells us when to sleep, when to wake, and of course when to eat. So when the alarms start sounding and t…
17 years ago
Popup Chinese — Elementary: My Brother is Good Looking
While you were cracking the spine on that Kangxi dictionary in grad school, your younger brother was hitting the gym. Twice a day even. So does it ma…
17 years ago
Popup Chinese — Pinyin Practice: xi
Our pinyin practice lesson for today focuses on one of the more challenging sounds in the Chinese language. And the reason English speakers have diff…
17 years, 1 month ago
Popup Chinese — Elementary: The Upsell
Developed over 5000 years of history, the traditional Chinese approach to sales involves deploying armies of salespeople to flank the merchandise, an…
17 years, 1 month ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced: Saturday Morning Cartoons
In this podcast Echo, Liu and 9527 hit our studio for a show about Saturday morning cartoons in China. And if you think they're going to chat about S…
17 years, 1 month ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: The Worst Joke in China
One of the advantages we've found to operating out of Beijing is our ability to engage in the sort of scientific research frowned upon in much of the…
17 years, 1 month ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: Your Dog Looks a Little....
Growing weary of Lassie bounding into your bedroom at the very break of dawn, his innocent eyes beaming with the delight of another day? Join us in t…
17 years, 1 month ago