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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Hot or cold

今天我们要学习一组短语，today we will talk about a short phrase, 一边一边, doing something while you are on something else.

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Elementary Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Return the money

Today we will talk about the chinese idioms, or shall we say chéngyǔ. Chinese Idioms are short phrases that usually consists of four characters. According to some researches, there are about 5,000 chengyu in Chinese, though some dictionaries list over 20,000. The meaning of a chengyu usually summaries a story over four characters. So it does not follow the usual grammatical structure but instead, it is highly compact.

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Chinese Traditional Festivals

In today's lesson, I will talk about the Chinese traditional festival. There are quite a few, such as: 春节 - Spring festival, 元宵节 - Lantern festival, 端午节 - Dragon Boat festival and 中秋节 - Middle Autumn festival. We will talk about all of these in this lesson.

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Advanced Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Diet

你是小胖子还是瘦子呢？你在减肥吗？
全世界的女生都在减肥，你还在等什么呢！

作为胖子，有以下四大痛苦：
所有的美丽衣服都是为瘦子而设计。
胖子永远只能走可爱路线，离性感简直十万八千里远。
班里的同学都喜欢欺负最胖的同学。
有帅哥男朋友会被大家怀疑是“倒追”!
为了漂亮的衣服，为了自己帅帅的男朋友，
为了自己一点点的虚荣心，也为了自己“内在美”与“外在美”的两全其美，
让我们开始减肥吧，与双下巴说再见！

Elementary Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Sending your CV

Today we will talk about looking for jobs. We all know that looking for jobs is very stressful, especially if you are in a foreign country. So when you are searching for jobs, what would be the first thing to do? 找工作的时候，要做的第一件事是什么？Probably the first thing you would do is to write a nice resume. 找工作的第一件事就是写简历。

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Online shopping

Today we will talk about online shopping, 网上购物 or 网购。So what type of shopper are you? Do you prefer shopping online or to actually shop on the street? Of course, they both have their pros and cons, and for me, I prefer to buy things online, because it saves time and you can find better deals online. But of course, you wouldn't be able to get your shopping on the same day.

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Advanced Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Cash Machine Hostile

虽然说ATM给我们的存款取款转账带来很大的便利，但是呢，这个新的发明却给了不法分子很多可乘之机。所以我们今天就来讨论一下ATM骗局。俗话说的不好啊，道高一尺魔高一丈，这魔呢永远依着道出现，对于ATM这个新生的银行设备，虽然人们都不陌生，但是，很多人却不自觉的进入不法分子提前设好的陷阱，不可自拔。下面就一起来听听一些网友亲身经历的ATM骗局吧。

Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - The air conditioner is broken

Today we will talk about the hot weather, especially for people who lives in south China, such as 广州，武汉，or even Hong Kong, it is very hot there in the summer, sometimes the temperature can reach 40 degrees, nobody wants to be outside or anywhere without an air conditioner. But in our Chinese Podcast today, the person in the dialogue lives in a place, where the air con is damaged, and that is why he was saying that人就像在蒸笼里一样. Tune in to learn the meaning of this Chinese expression.

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Elementary Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Draw water with a sieve

今天我们要讲的是两个中文俗语，每个都只有几个字，但它们各自都包含了一个故事，所以当你用到它的时候，别人就自然而然知道其中的意思了，同时也能知道你想说的话。Today we will talk about two new Chinese expressions. Even though there are only two of words in each of the expressions, it tells a story, and when you use it, others will know the story behind it and also know what you are referring to. 它们分别是：“竹篮打水一场空”和“有眼不识泰山”。Try the Chinese test related to this Chinese podcast to consolidate the new words in this podcast.

Intermediate Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Stories that every Chinese knows

今天我要给大家讲故事，讲什么呢？故事的开始呀，是从前有座山，山里有座庙，庙里有个老和尚，和一个小和尚，有一天，老和尚对着小和尚说，今天我给你讲个故事，这个故事呀，就是，从前有座山，山里有座庙，庙里有个老和尚，和一个小和尚，有一天，老和尚对着小和尚说，今天我给你讲个故事，这个故事呀就是… and yes, we can continue for ages and this story will never end, it is good for bed time, isn't it? Because your kids will fall asleep straight away after they get bored.
I used to ask my grandmum, what’s next what’s next, later on I found out myself, well, there is no next. But those two monks are so famous in China and I believe that everyone knows about them. This is what we are going to talk today; the stories that every Chinese knows.

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