Elementary | Cold Weather Is Coming

If you're going to treat men like objects, it's important to be able to compare them like objects. In this Chinese lesson, a group of ladies in the office compare two of their male co-workers. Listen in on the age-old debate of Xiao Wang vs. Xiao Li, and learn how to make compari ...  Show more

So you slept in until noon, and NOW it's convenient for you to have housekeeping clean your room? That's fine... you're the guest after all. Find out what both the request and the polite staff response are in this continuation of ChinesePod's hospitality series. Episode link: htt ...  Show more

Learning a language also involves learning the art of conversation. Weather talk makes great small talk. Not like the boring 'it's hot', 'it's cold' bellyaching. We're talking wowing them with 'cold fronts' and 'scattered showers.' S ...

Knowing how to talk about the weather is important in any language and recently it's been crazy so in this episode I wanted to introduce some useful words to talk about the weather changing while you practice your listening skills.

In this episode you'll learn to talk about the weather in Mandarin. By the end of the lesson you'll be able to use the words and phrases for different meteorological conditions and understand a weather forecast in Chinese.

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This lesson covers talking about the weather.