Talk Chineasy - Learn Chinese every day with ShaoLan

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“Classmate” in Chinese is the word for the day as ShaoLan enlightens today's guest, Charlie Hoffs, with the origins of the word. As always, the word for classmate can be joined with other Chinese words to create new and relevant meanings. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. por...

✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. portaly.cc/chineasy Visit our website for more info about the app.

“This and that” in Chinese are two of the most useful words you can learn! Transition singer Jesse Edbrooke chats with ShaoLan about the possible ways of using the word and how it is not as offensive in Chinese culture as it can sometimes sound! ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day...

Motorbike enthusiast and fluent Chinese speaker James Trapp chats with ShaoLan about the Chinese words for motorbike and other types of vehicles. Listen and discover the similarities between riding a motorbike and meditating! Would you dare ride a motorbike on a 10 lane motorway in Beijing? ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect...

David He is the Non-executive Chairman at Jinchun Group. The company already has over 75 tea stores in Shanghai. Find out how to say “store” or “shop” in Chinese and how to differentiate between different types of stores. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. portaly.cc/chineasy...

Learn the Chinese word for “book” in this episode with Shuangyi Li, a fascinating individual who has a huge love of books. ShaoLan shines a light on the reasons why the Chinese character for “book” has developed and evolved into its modern form. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day...

ShaoLan shares with listeners how to say “scholarship” in Chinese with today's guest Charlie Hoffs. Charlie has recently won a scholarship from the Confucius Institute to compete in a Chinese speaking competition in Beijing. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. portaly.cc/chinea...

Founder and executive director of Code For America, Jennifer Pahlka joins this podcast to learn the word for “code” or “coding” in Chinese. Her amazing initiative aims to harness the incredible advances in technology in the 21st Century and enable them to make the government work for a fairer society. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download a...

Find out how to say the super useful phrase “sorry I'm late” in Chinese with ShaoLan and Transition drummer, Josh Edbrooke. Follow the conversation and the other useful applications of “late” but be careful who you say them to (listen in to find out why)! ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidenc...

Express your emotion in Chinese with ShaoLan and Transition's singer Jesse Edbrooke. Find out how to say “I am angry” or how to directly ask others why they are feeling angry. The Chinese words embody something of the Chinese philosophy of emotion and ShaoLan's explanation is fascinating. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect fo...

New York Times Bestselling author and CEO of The Cue Ball Group Anthony Tjan joins ShaoLan to teach how to say “good people” in Chinese. Find out why he believes finding good people is “the only leadership decision that really matters.” ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. porta...

Mandeep Rai, the CEO of Creative Visions Global, is someone who likes to wear a smile! She joins ShaoLan in the London studio to talk about smiling and how to say the word in Chinese (which works best when you are smiling). ShaoLan teaches all kinds of different ways to describe smiling, smirking, laughing and joking in Chinese. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the A...

The Chinese word for “so-so” is often one of the first words that non-native speakers learn to say. ShaoLan teaches Transition singer Jesse the humorous origins of the word and why Chinese people find it a funny thing to hear. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. portaly.cc/chin...

Discover the word for “tea” in Chinese and how to say some of the most common types of tea, such as Oolong, black and green tea. Today's guest is David He and he knows a thing or two about tea as he is the CEO of one of the coolest tea brands in Shanghai, Nanyang Tea House. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your...

Listen in to learn the many different words for “bus” in Chinese. ShaoLan interviews today's special guest, Shuangyi Li, about an encounter on a bus in China when she was 13 that changed the course of her life. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. portaly.cc/chineasy Visit our w...

Start expressing your opinions in Chinese by learning the word for “to like” with ShaoLan and Transition singer, Jesse Edbrooke. Do you like to sleep? Do you like me?! Discover the ways of using the word in both formal situations and in a lighthearted way. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confiden...

Learn how to wish your friends happy birthday in Chinese in this special episode with Californian student Charlie Hoffs. ShaoLan shares the varying birthday customs in China and Charlie talks about how she likes to celebrate her birthday. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. por...

Adam Foss joins Talk Chineasy today to talk about his love of “jazz” and learn the word in Chinese. In this episode, find out why the word for “jazz” in Chinese and “noble scholar” are connected! ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about the app.

Don’t miss out on how to say “Chinese Characters” with Transition drummer, Josh Edbrooke! ShaoLan shares about the origins of the words and how they came to mean what they do. Do you know why there are 2 different kinds of characters, simplified and traditional? Listen in to find the answer! ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect...

Martin Talvari, co-founder of Myriad.live spends a lot of his time with and looking for “outstanding people.” Listen in and find out the word for “outstanding” in Chinese and how to use it in the best context! ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info...

Today “nature” is the Chinese word for the day and you can learn it with Stef Roberts, animator and popular blogger who shares about his amazing lifestyle appreciating nature through living in the forest. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. Visit our website for more info about...

Will Knight is the senior editor of world-leading university MIT’s “Technology Review.” He gets to see new technologies before the rest of the world. In this episode, you can find out how to say “automation” and “automatic” in Chinese. These words are super useful in everyday life, listen in to find out why. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to dow...

Learn to say “winner” in Chinese! Today’s guest is the bestselling author of the book “Play Bigger,” Kevin Maney. Find out about his fascinating research and how playing bigger can help your business in a world where the “winner takes all.” ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Free to download and perfect for building your speaking confidence from Day 1. V...

Find out how to say “law” in Chinese and why the original meaning of the words are important in Chinese culture in this fascinating episode with special guest Adam Foss and ShaoLan. Adam is a former US Prosecutor and has some valuable insights into the way our legal system can be changed to help improve our society. ✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Our brand new Talk Chineasy App , is now live on the App Store! Fre...