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Jan 2025
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Newbie | Baby Photos

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A picture is worth a thousand Chinese characters. In this Chinese lesson, you'll learn to talk in Mandarin about photographs and the people in them. Is this the first time you've ever talked about pictures in Chinese? Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1190

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