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Nov 2023
16m 47s

Intermediate | Getting Your Hair Done

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Inspired by actual events: a young woman's twenty-seven traumatic breakdowns after China hair salon debacles. This Chinese lesson is your hair intervention. In this podcast, save yourself from becoming just another casualty of the dreaded over-zealous scissors... avert the blight of bad hairdos, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0761

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