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Feb 2025
17m 21s

Elementary | Jet Lag

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How often have you traveled across multiple time-zones and gone straight into the office the next day? Some of our Poddies in the community may have also experienced jet lag of sorts whilst engaging in hot debates with their counterparts from the other side of the globe - and fallen asleep in the office the next day. Either way listen to today's Mandarin lesson to learn important language for discussing your jet-lagged predicament. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1290

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