ChinesePod - Intermediate

It's been a bad day: a misfiled report at work, a burgeoning head cold, and a drawn out fight with the missus that ended only when the phone line went dead (thank heavens.) You arrive home, eager to forget your troubles with a luke-warm bottle of beer. And that's when you discover that your home no longer exists per se, although they might keep the outer wall as a support strut for the new Olympic...

Admit it – you feel bad walking by the park every morning and seeing them twist and turn with the grace of a Beijing acrobat. So how about we teach you how to talk about the age old exercise of Tai Chi so that you can join in (seeing how that’s really the reason you moved here). In this podcast, learn to talk about the different aspects of Tai Chi in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chi...

There are many reasons to believe that someone may not have received your email. Whether you're a conspiracy theorist or simply need to remind a technology-challenged co-worker, this Chinese lesson will equip you to ask someone if he got your email. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1705

It has been said that gambling in China is a bit of a, shall we say, national pastime. Is the stock market is a form of gambling? The Chinese stock markets are now soaring to unprecedented and precarious heights. You do the math... and listen to this Mandarin Chinese lesson on playing the stock market in China. (insider tip: sell. sell. sell.) Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0526

You can change it to RMB, but not back unless you have a form and oh, by the way… where’s your red book, visa, and passport? Wrong line – it’s that one, but take another number and wait here. No, there, sorry, we don’t do it at this branch… Exhausting to read? Try hearing it in Mandarin. Fortunately, we’ve been through it so you don’t have to. Listen to this podcast to learn all about banking in M...

Now, we all know when we get the flu, there’s nothing we like more than to do a little whining about it. In this podcast you will learn how to tell someone who cares about your sore throat and headache, using Mandarin Chinese. And when you do, there will be no shortage of friends sure to want to bring you some nice Chinese medicine. Open up! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1688

Divorce and child custody is becoming a more common topic of conversation in China in recent years. In this podcast, listen in as one divorcé talks about the issues that inevitably come along with divorce when children are involved--child custody and support payments, and learn how to talk about these issues in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0520

Ken and co. can tell you all about their Shanghai (tarmac for 3 hours) to Beijing (except that they never actually touched down) back to Shanghai (tarmac for another 3 hours) experience when you come and see us, but to tide you over, this podcast gives you a Mandarin Chinese lesson on some things you might hear pre-transit. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0238

Dropping a utensil at dinner is normal, right? Knocking pretty much everything onto the floor, though, one by one, doesn't normally happen unless there is drinking involved. Requests for the server, measure words, drunkenness -- this lesson has it all. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1621

Though it’s hard to imagine ever completely getting your bearings in a massive Chinese city, you may from time to time get an inkling that something is wrong when you’ve passed Tiananmen Square for the third time on different sides of the taxi. In this podcast is a lesson in Mandarin Chinese to help you in the unforeseen event of the driver “taking the long route”. Episode link: https://www.chines...

Will the drama never end (let’s hope not, as we like crafting these lessons)? Catching up with Lili, who recently ran into an old “friend” (doing quite well for himself), is making our old pal Zhang Liang a bit worried… but with good reason? You’ll only know if you listen… Listen to this podcast and hear about a chance meeting, in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0369

Most of us need to use both Chinese and English input methods when we are working on our computer. Here is another extremely useful lesson to help you learn the related computer terms that you will no doubt need sooner or later! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/2556

Somebody is up to some deceitful tricks in this eerie Jizhou episode. Listen in to this podcast, and learn in Mandarin about the strange goings-on of this place that no one can find on the map. Murder... intrigue... all this and much more. Chinese learning will never be the same. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0716

Catching back up with Zhang Liang and Chen Li, we find them in a much better position, romantic-wise… as someone wrote someone else a love letter. So good is this lesson, in fact, that we’re in talks of launching “Tian of Our Lives”. In this podcast, learn to use Mandarin Chinese to express your devotion to the one you love. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0336

Don't you hate it when your internal heat is too high, and you break out? In this Chinese lesson, our tragic heroine suffers that fate and is forced to make a decision: go out with a face covered in unsightly pimples, or just stay home? Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1576

Previously on Jizhou series... missing persons, freaked out girlfriend and weird townspeople. This week on Jizhou... missing persons, freaked out girlfriend, weird townspeople... AND special bonus, learn how to spaz out in Mandarin. Listen to this podcast and learn to lose it in Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0699

Granted, it’s difficult (even for us) to differentiate a “normal talk” from an “upset talk,” but we can tell you that an occasional spat takes place. What over? It rhymes with “shopping”. In this lesson, Zhang Liang and Chen Li get a bit heated in a classic boy-meets-girl at the shopping mall. Just what you always wanted, to learn how to argue in Mandarin Chinese! Episode link: https://www.chinese...

When was the last time you updated your profile picture? A few days ago or has it been awhile? For the father in this lesson, getting help changing his photo causes his daughter to discover something very interesting about her dad... Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/2495

If you find yourself perplexed, fear not that your Chinese comprehension is going down. Rather, this series is just messing with your mind. In this mysterious episode, enter a freaky little child... listen to the podcast and try and figure out where we are going with this. We're not saying we know, but hey, it's a fun ride. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0688

The “lucky color” red doesn’t go well with green--especially when the latter is brought on by a fit of jealousy. Catching up with girlfriend/boyfriend Chen Li and Zhang Liang, we find out that there’s a (tiny) possessive side to one of Chen Li’s friends. Better start writing that diary in code! In this podcast, follow along on a dinner party gone wrong, in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://w...

What are you interested in? Even if it's not traditional Chinese medicine, you're going to want to know how to ask that question and how to answer it. This lesson covers two very common patterns for expressing interest. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1547

In this episode of Lost meets Fantasy Island, missing person sighting. Follow along with Wentao and Zhao Lu as the mystery thickens in Jizhou. Yes, it's scary. Yes, its bizarre. Sleep with the light on if you have to. But don't miss the strange unraveling of this story, in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0671

No matter where/who you are, the “laying it on thick” stage of the (almost) relationship is the same in any language. So how does boyfriend-to-be Zhang Liang fare in the “Mr. Lover-lover” department? We’ll leave that analysis up to you… hotcakes. In this podcast, follow along and learn how to sweet-talk in Mandarin Chinese. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0265

Do you keep track of your preferred websites by putting them in your Favorites? Listen in as a daughter teaches her father how to bookmark his favorite websites and get equipped to explain it all in Mandarin! Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/2471

Though they haven't found the 'hatch' yet, the secrets of Jizhou are starting to reveal themselves to our mystified loved-one seekers. In this podcast, follow along in Mandarin Chinese with this saga of missing people, bizarre events and crazy hostel-owners. And if you can hear the flute... beware. You may be next... muuuhuhuhaaaha. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/0654