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Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: Drive Safe
You never know who's been in that taxi before, and China is a place where it pays to play it safe. So join us in this podcast as we review a couple o…
17 years, 2 months ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: Global Warming
As you step out your front door in the morning to go to work, the same as you would on any other day, something seems off. Could it be the fruit vend…
17 years, 2 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: Life in Hebei
Those of us living in Beijing occasionally hear tales of the strange lands and barbarous customs that exist beyond the third ring road. Visitors to o…
17 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Elementary: The Filthy Kitten
Beijing has a lot of stray cats. Which translates into a lot of stray kittens. They are small, cute and usually covered with mud. And should you run …
17 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate listening test: Lifehacker in China
Did you know the average person spends two to three years of their life sitting on the toilet? It goes without saying that most of this time is not s…
17 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: Parking the Car
In this podcast we'll teach you a respectful form of address you can use to refer cab drivers, serving staff and martial arts instructors. We'll also…
17 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Elementary: The Break-Up, part II
In today's lesson we return with another outburst of marital dischord, and a dialogue that falls somewhere around the upper boundary of our Elementar…
17 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Absolute Beginners: No More Toilet Paper
More tragic words have never been spoken. Two hours ago you were enjoying the best spicy chicken this side of Chongqing. Now your lunch is having the…
17 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Advanced: Vintage Science Fiction
We sent our troops into the studio with a simple request for vintage science fiction, but it wasn't until we conscripted the duck they began to get t…
17 years, 3 months ago
Popup Chinese — Intermediate: The Orphanage
You'd have thought we'd have stopped with the child labor jokes after that kerfuffle at the UNESCO conference in Hangzhou. Remember the one? It was t…
17 years, 3 months ago