Oscar opened up a company with three other people and they set their headquarters in Beijing. Oscar’s home was not so far away from his office so he usually walked there. Yet there were not so many good restaurants around his area, and he tended to take a taxi to somewhere a bit further away. He could remember the names to the destinations but since his apartment lay in a small community that cornered itself in a deserted street. There were lots of turns and twists on the way and taxi drivers always got lost and confused and sometimes really annoyed if Oscar was not able to tell exactly where he wanted to go.
“I couldn’t speak a word of Chinese.” Complained he one day to his parents, “And taxi drivers are so aggressive that I don’t even dare to argue with them any more, besides, they don’t understand me either.” His parents suggested that he picked up some useful words, at least words that could bring him back home. He begged his Chinese girlfriend for help. And they decided to make sure he knew how to direct the taxi driver first.

Let's learn some words and sentences about directions in chinese. For example: 请告诉我怎么去那里？如何去那里？去那里怎么走？In these sentences, 怎么 means "how". Furthermore, you will learn more words about directions like: east - 东, west - 西, south - 南, 北 - north.

今日头条是：
1.奥巴马抵达沙特开始其上任后的首次中东之行
2.国务院批准鼓励汽车家电以旧换新实施方案
3.奥运彩排受伤"舞者"刘岩将于11月重返舞台
4.法航飞机失踪，没有发现生命迹象

Consolidate your knowledge of today's Chinese podcast by trying Chinese Test – Chinese family

In this lesson, we will discuss the question :"你家都有几口人"? Whenever you see the word 几, you can more or less define this sentence as a question, meaning ’how many’. 我家有几口人 - There are several people in my family. This sentence resembles the previous one, except that it doesn't include a question mark. More over, we talk about the tense:以前，现在, 将来. These words express the period of time. 以前 means ‘past’. So everything talked about in the sentence happens in the past. 现在 means ‘now’. Since Chinese verbs don’t have specific tenses changes, 现在 is important if you want to say something that is prevailing at this moment. 将来 means’ in the future’. But people don’t say that all the time if they want to express something that is going to happen in the coming days/months/years/centuries. To find out what we do with those words, please listen to this podcast.

This intermediate lesson is about measure words. You certainly came across this topic before but it is always important to revisit. Especially if you are the type of person that always uses 个 for measure word because you can't think of anything better i.e. can't remember. Measure words are one of of the trickiest parts of learning chinese. This is because there is no single formula that allows us to choose the correct measure word. The best way is to memorise all the measure words and relate them to the context in which they are normally used. At the end of this lesson you will be able to choose the right measure words for the sentences below:

一( ) 哈里波特书
一( ) 小美女
一（ ）报名表
一（ ）勺子
一（ ）橙汁
一（）微波炉
一（ ）玫瑰

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这道菜融合日式寿司的做法，将绿色菜品与主食面点巧妙结合，细嫩光滑的面皮里包着清香爽口的板兰，如竹节般精致，剔透的白色隐约可见鲜嫩的绿色，看一看耳目清新，闻一闻醒脑提神，尝一尝妙不可言。真是色、香、味俱全的佳肴啊。不要再吞口水了，你还在等什么呢，赶快和Alice一起学做这道中国菜吧，相信大家一定会学会的。