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Feb 2025
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Upper-intermediate | How do you fix a bo...

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Foreigners everywhere are working hard at learning Chinese. Unfortunately, many of those sincere students find themselves learning from boring, poorly designed material. In this lesson we take a look at this issue from the angle of the school and the teachers, who are asking each other: what can we do to make these Chinese classes more interesting? Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1498

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