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ChinesePod - Intermediate

ChinesePod makes learning Mandarin fun and easy! In this Intermediate Level Podcast Feed, explore broader contexts and applications of frequently used expressions needed to navigate comfortably in a Mandarin speaking environment. Deepen your knowledge on current affairs while learning and increase your confidence level in speaking Chinese. Expand your Mandarin Chinese learning experience by also SUBSCRIBING to ChinesePod - Beginner and ChinesePod - Advanced Podcast channels. For a more in

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00:16:29

Intermediate | Evading Nosy Questions

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/11/15

There's a little busybody in all of us. Now is your chance... all those questions you always wanted to ask but didn't have the guts to. In this podcast, get past your western conservative-ism and learn to be nosy with the best of 'em, in Mandarin. You've graduated to using a Chinese squat toilet stall with no door... might as well have a conversation about income to pass the time while you're there. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0770

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00:16:29

Upper-intermediate | Argument over Garbage (1)

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/11/13

You haven't lived until you've had a shouting match with your neighbors at 8:00 in the morning. Listen to this practical Chinese lesson and learn how to stand up for yourself, in Mandarin. Tell 'em to take that trash out to the curb, where it belongs! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1034

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00:16:47

Intermediate | Getting Your Hair Done

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/11/10

Inspired by actual events: a young woman's twenty-seven traumatic breakdowns after China hair salon debacles. This Chinese lesson is your hair intervention. In this podcast, save yourself from becoming just another casualty of the dreaded over-zealous scissors... avert the blight of bad hairdos, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0761

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00:15:24

Upper-intermediate | Job Market for Laowai

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/11/08

Plenty of foreigners come East in pursuit of the finer things in life: tailored clothes, chauffeurs, and pretentious villas. But if you don't have any special skills, you may find job-hunting in China is like panning for gold in the Yellow River-- more silt than gilt. Listen to this podcast, learn Mandarin, and start your job-hunt today! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1042

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00:16:25

Intermediate | Lost Cell Phone

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/11/06

There's nothing more traumatic than losing your cell phone. That is, until some good Samaritan dials the 'home' number and calls your wife, and lets her know he's found your phone in the back of a taxi outside of a nightclub in Shanghai… especially after you told her you were 'just working late at the office.' In this podcast learn how to handle the trauma of losing your cell phone in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0757

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00:16:33

Upper-intermediate | The Big Deal about Shenzhou 7

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/11/03

Going to the moon is soooo passe. Not so! Listen to this podcast and learn more about China's grand plans for outer space. Want to study Mandarin in zero-G? Take your protein pills and put your earphones on! This lesson will teach you in Chinese all about China's plans to be the next ones to take a 'giant leap' for mankind. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1031

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00:15:51

Intermediate | Singapore

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/11/01

Manicured landscape, clean streets, not a piece of trash in sight, humidity... no, you're not at Disneyworld, but you might as well be... it's the most sterile city in the world, Singapore. Cliches aside, it's another cool place you can go and try out your Mandarin skills. Listen to this podcast, and get practicing-la. Or just go to Disneyworld... there's Chinese people there too--they love Minnie. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0753

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00:15:51

Upper-intermediate | Agreement on Exclusive...

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/30

You've gotten drunk on the baijiu, put in your time at KTV, and now is your chance to finally close the deal. Do you have the Chinese to do it? In this podcast, learn how to secure an exclusive super-duper excellent deal, and all the exciting details that come with the territory. Word of the wise: negotiating drunk is not recommended. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1026

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00:17:06

Intermediate | Ordering Chinese Take-out

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/27

It’s slightly reminiscent of your friendly neighborhood ‘Oriental Palace’, but where is the General Tsao’s Chicken and florescent pink sweet and sour pork? Though the smells and greasy tables feel strangely familiar, this isn’t the Chinese take-out of your memory. This podcast is a Mandarin lesson to reacquaint you with Chinese food, Chinese-style. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0747

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00:18:43

Upper-intermediate | Battling Internet Addiction

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/25

Some addictions are better than others. Internet addiction, for example, is bad. Bad, unless of course, the addiction revolves around being on the internet compulsively reloading chinesepod.com every five minutes. Replaying each link of each podcast until slumped over in a heap. Pinning up pictures of the most active users on your wall. This good. Other addictions bad. Learn more in this podcast, in Chinese. 500 times. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1021

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00:14:47

Intermediate | Dorm Life: Late For Class

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/23

They were the best of times, they were the worst of times. Let's go back to your student days. Oh, the days of the camaraderie of communal showers, burning midnight oil, and abiding the delicate snores of your insufferable four roommates. Of course, all this fun had its consequences. Listen to this podcast and hear about them, in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0741

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00:17:34

Upper-intermediate | Google vs. Baidu

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/20

Ali vs. Foreman... Skywalker vs. Vader... Donahue vs. Oprah... There was always a winner and a loser. This may not be any rumble in the jungle, but the results are just as hard to bet on... and the odds, well, just odd. Listen to this podcast, where Google takes on Baidu. May the best Chinese search engine win. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1013

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00:17:02

Intermediate | Night Cat

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/18

You survived the bike ride home on the handlebars of your friend's bike who was too drunk to walk. You made it to your apartment. You should drink water, and you should certainly shower off the baijiu that's seeping through your pores, but that bed is calling. As the room spins, you realize it will all be for naught if you can't brag about your exploits. Learn how to in this podcast, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0734

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00:16:12

Upper-intermediate | F1 in China

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/16

Zooming cars, screeching tires. The only thing missing is a helmet and seatbelt to strap you in. You heard Formula One racing was coming to China. You thought it was already here. Listen to this podcast and learn in Chinese about the noise and speed of this race that is the big brother of your Shanghai morning commute. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0991

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00:19:51

Intermediate | Automated Phone Recordings

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/13

Thank you for calling, for directions in English press 1 now: *1*... for directions in Mandarin press 2 now: *1*, *1*... for directions in Cantonese, press 3 now: *1*, *1*, *1*, if you know your party's extension press 4 now, *11111111*, if you'd like to speak to the operator, press 0 now, *0*. I'm sorry that extension is invalid, please hang up and try again. Circumnavigate automated phone hell--in this podcast, learn your *'s and #'s in Chinese. Episode link:

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00:16:51

Upper-intermediate | Considering a Credit Card

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/11

With traditional Chinese money values (hiding piles of cash in a sock in the closet) changing, so is the world of debt in China. While you still won't find your card as welcome as a nice brick of not-so-crisp 100 notes, join in the debate of cash versus credit in this podcast. You will learn about the good, the bad, and the ugly of applying for a Chinese credit card, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0986

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00:16:17

Intermediate | Using ChinesePod

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/09

Does it seem a little conceited to do a lesson about 'ourselves?' Hey, we waited two years and 3 months to do it. It's about time for a little tooting of the horn. In this podcast, learn about how to talk about 'us', in Mandarin Chinese. (Just 'cause Aric's gone, doesn't mean there isn't any more room for shameless self-promotion, people.) Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0725

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00:15:22

Upper-intermediate | Editing a Photo

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/06

You've always secretly envied those lovers in the park. Laying across a mossy bank, in a blue tuxedo / pink taffeta rented wedding dress pinned up at the back to fit. Well, now you don't need to hire any two-bit wedding photographer, nor do you need a gal willing to marry you. You can study this podcast lesson, and learn in Chinese how to get a misty, touched-up cheesy photo of your own. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0977

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00:13:58

Intermediate | Teacher Salary and Perks

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/04

Of course, we know you're doing it for the sheer love of imparting knowledge, and the personal rewards of being mauled day in and day out by 45 snotty-nosed kids. However, we want you to be practical. In this podcast, a Chinese lesson to give you the scoop on the other stuff you're going to need to know about getting a teaching job in China. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0720

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00:17:58

Upper-intermediate | The 80/20 Rule

ChinesePod - Intermediate ·

2023/10/02

The 80/20 rule, if applied to Chinese learning, could very possibly mean that 20 percent of what you study will be what you use 80 percent of the time. So hit the podcasts, and learn here how the 80/20 rule applies to profits, spending, and placating your boss, in Mandarin. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0975

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