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Apr 2023
12m 56s

Upper-intermediate | Group Photo

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OK, everybody lean in, put your hands on your knees or around the person next to you. You in the back, two fingers behind someone’s head please. Now smile and look cute so no one can tell us apart. Say 'Chinese!' In this podcast, a Mandarin lesson for the over-zealous photographers amongst us... and their doomed subjects. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0772

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