Newbie | Buying a Newspaper

A new workplace can be intimidating at first if you don't know anyone and especially if no one is speaking English! The first step to breaking the ice and becoming more familiar with your coworkers is obtaining a coveted lunch invitation. But what do you do when you can't get an ...  Show more

Today's podcast is all about massive numbers in Mandarin Chinese. We're talking the numbers used in high-occurrence discussions on the population of China, US debt to China, your expected salary, and the price of a Ferrari in Shanghai. Enhance your numerical knowledge with today' ...  Show more

There's a little busybody in all of us. Now is your chance... all those questions you always wanted to ask but didn't have the guts to. In this podcast, get past your western conservative-ism and learn to be nosy with the best of 'em, in Mandarin. You've gradua ...

In this age of web portals, blogs, and apps, you don't hear a lot of talk about the class printed-on-paper magazine. Not only are magazines popular in China, but there are also not-so-obvious ways to subscribe to them. In this lesson, learn how to subscribe to a magazine in Manda ...  Show more

Learn how to talk about how much you read the news. TRANSCRIPT You can read along with this podcast and find important vocabulary here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/real-easy-english/240705 FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www ...  Show more

The true computer geeks amongst us will come bounding out of the woodwork for this Mandarin lesson, gleefully igniting flurries of discussion over bits, megs, CPU, RAM, GB, XYZ in Chinese... (post-traumatic flashbacks to many a lunch hour conversation here at ChinesePod). For ...