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Aug 2024
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Intermediate | Lao Wang's Office 5: Wang...

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Join us today for Manager Wang's Excel-lent Adventure. Has he found his calling in life? A way to finally show up that wretched new man about the office? Learn along in Chinese as Wang rolls up his sleeves and tries his hand at the computer--making an Excel worksheet, specifically--and in the process charts, boxes and calculates his way into another awkward office moment. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1032

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