Newbie | Chinese Idioms - Spiderwebs and Hors...

In recent years, both Shanghai and Beijing have been zealously extending their subway lines, making transport by subway a convenient, realistic options for most city dwellers. The only caveat is that you need to know where to change subway lines, and you need to learn how to talk ...  Show more

Whether you're a tourist with a plethora of heavy bags or a mafia gangster with some relatively sensitive cargo, it's important to be able to ask the driver to open the trunk of a car. Today's lesson will teach you how to say this highly useful phrase in Mandarin Chinese. Episode ...  Show more

Take 5,000 years of linguistic history and ancient literature... throw in a few snakes, frogs, and fanciful tales. Mix in the odd digit for good measure. What do you get? Cryptic Chinese idioms. Now, we're not saying they're all as easy as 'horse horse tiger tiger, ...

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中文的同音字、谐音字有时候真让学中文的人头疼，但同时，中国人又很爱用同音、谐音开玩笑。除此之外，许多祝福和禁忌的产生也跟声音有关，今天的课程要让大家认识许多跟十二生肖有关的成语和吉祥话，听这一课，可以用上十二年，是不是很划算呢？赶快来瞧瞧吧！ Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/2638