Intermediate | Two Tough Ladies

ChinesePod brings the last installment of the saga of the snake spirit Bai Suzhen and her love Xu Xian. It's The Legend of the White Snake! In this final part of the story, love goes beyond death and good old fashioned filial piety saves the day! Episode link: https://www.chinese ...  Show more

This Chinese lesson chronicles a day in the life of Wang Guan, a very busy network administrator. If you deal with routers or servers much, this is a good introductory lesson for you. But a word of advice: go into this lesson with your tone hat on; it's going to give you a workou ...  Show more

Talking about your job is one of the best ways to break the ice in Chinese. In today's Mandarin podcast, you'll learn how to talk about what you do to earn your daily rice. Listen and learn how to talk about your profession in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://ww ...

Answering the question "Can you speak Chinese?" in the affirmative is always a proud moment. Perhaps, yes, literally, one moment. Let's call the inevitable next moment, with its subsequent barrage of language, ear assault. But hey, you're already ahead of the ...

Don’t you hate it when you want to know how to tell someone off in Chinese, but you just can’t find the words? Which results in your usual strong words: you bad! Well, leave it to ChinesePod to teach you the phrases you really want to know, like “shut up!” In this podcast, lis ...

You've just stepped out from the office when a frenzied pack of language students senses your presence and rushes over with English greetings. We've all been there and know this is one of those things about China that can be both sweet as well as incredibly frustrating ...