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Once you get past the initial niceties and compliments that inevitably take place during a conversation, your newfound Chinese friend will most likely ask you where you've learned such exemplary Mandarin. Today's lesson will teach you how to respond to this question while still p ... Show More

Modern China has reinvented the convenience store. Or rather, it has borrowed Japan's reinvention of the convenience store. But in any case, it's new heights of convenience. These stores are now places you can pick up fresh (?) food and even have it heated on your way out. Learn ... Show More

So are you looking for a tour guide, or are you just looking for a friend of a friend to show you around the city for free? No matter; those two are the same word in Chinese! Learn how to get help finding a tour guide in this Chinese lesson. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.c ... Show More

<p>When you can get take out draft beer poured into a plastic bag for pennies, it&#39;s easy to get incensed over the price of pijiu. In this podcast, learn how to use your Mandarin Chinese to get picky about your brew. But no Bob and Doug hoser jokes please. Episode link: https: ... Show More

<p>In this lesson you'll learn to order drinks in a Chinese café or tea house. In addition to building your vocabulary for common drinks in Mandarin, you'll also learn the structures used to ask for things. You'll quickly find how easy it is to reuse these structures in other sit ... Show More

<p>Due to an extra-smart poddie's recent uber-technical diagnosis of why Asians turn red whilst drinking, there is no need for further racial alcohol-tolerance profiling here at ChinesePod. As a postscript to that, listen in to this podcast to learn how to rate your own drinking ... Show More

<p>Baijiu, the Chinese liquor, tastes so bad that you need something to take your mind off the foul burning that is coating your mouth and throat. Why not play some drinking games? In today's Mandarin podcast, you'll learn all about how to win face and make friends over a few rou ... Show More

<p>Previously on Jizhou series... missing persons, freaked out girlfriend and weird townspeople. This week on Jizhou... missing persons, freaked out girlfriend, weird townspeople... AND special bonus, learn how to spaz out in Mandarin. Listen to this podcast and learn to lose it ... Show More

<p>With more and more “laowai” coming to the People’s Republic, more and more find themselves in conversations about the occasional frustration one finds at that point in Mandarin where you’re good enough to get by, but are far from fluent. In this podcast, Ken, Jenny and Aggie d ... Show More

<p>It’s slightly reminiscent of your friendly neighborhood ‘Oriental Palace’, but where is the General Tsao’s Chicken and florescent pink sweet and sour pork? Though the smells and greasy tables feel strangely familiar, this isn’t the Chinese take-out of your memory. This podcast ... Show More

<p>Going to the moon is soooo passe. Not so! Listen to this podcast and learn more about China&#39;s grand plans for outer space. Want to study Mandarin in zero-G? Take your protein pills and put your earphones on! This lesson will teach you in Chinese all about China&#39;s plans ... Show More

<p>You survived the bike ride home on the handlebars of your friend&#39;s bike who was too drunk to walk. You made it to your apartment. You should drink water, and you should certainly shower off the baijiu that&#39;s seeping through your pores, but that bed is calling. As the r ... Show More

<p>Walking through a street food miasma where you smell the food before you see it, and seeing it is not necessarily believing it, this lesson is about one of the better smelling and easily-identifiable of the street foods of China. Which in itself is a good enough reason to purc ... Show More