CBC 1.09 | Talking about languages and language problems in Mandarin Chinese

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CBC 1.10 | Review episode

In this lesson you'll see how much you've learned in the first unit of the course. You'll listen to a conversation in which Mark and Crystal play two characters who meet each other at a conference in Beijing university. You'll be amazed at how much you understand, and there's ...

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CBC 1.11 | Ordering drinks in Mandarin

In this lesson you'll learn to order drinks in a Chinese café or tea house. In addition to building your vocabulary for common drinks in Mandarin, you'll also learn the structures used to ask for things. You'll quickly find how easy it is to reuse these structures in other sit ...

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