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Jul 2024
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Intermediate | Lao Wang's Office 4: Comm...

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Someone has been home alone reading some self-help books and seems to have found himself a new mission in life. Communication is the game. The new manager is his name. Much to the chagrin of Manager Wang, listen to the podcast and learn seventeen thousand habits of highly effective communicators from none other than the man himself, in Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1016

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