Elementary | Where Did You Learn Chinese?
Once you get past the initial niceties and compliments that inevitably take place during a conversation, your newfound Chinese friend will m...
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Elementary | Please Heat My Food
Modern China has reinvented the convenience store. Or rather, it has borrowed Japan's reinvention of the convenience store. But in any case,...
Elementary | Looking for a Tour Guide
So are you looking for a tour guide, or are you just looking for a friend of a friend to show you around the city for free? No matter; those...
Elementary | Forks and Spoons
True, asking for a fork is pretty much "giving up" when you're living in China, but there are times when it's not so frowned upon. And a spo...
Elementary | Can I Sit Here?
Noisy, crowded restaurants and cafeterias are especially common in China; it is the largest country in the world, after all. This alone may...
Elementary | Can I Eat With You?
A new workplace can be intimidating at first if you don't know anyone and especially if no one is speaking English! The first step to breaki...
Elementary | Big Numbers
Today's podcast is all about massive numbers in Mandarin Chinese. We're talking the numbers used in high-occurrence discussions on the popul...
Elementary | Buying High-Speed Train Tickets
If you're a fan of traveling (and if you're in China or planning a visit, you almost undoubtedly are!) then chances are you're going to need...
Elementary | Exchanging Dollars for RMB
One of the first things you're going to need to do in China is change some of your hard-earned cash into spendable RMB. Today's dialogue fol...
Elementary | Words of Encouragement
It's been a rough week. The work piled up over the holiday last week and all your dutiful employees have been working long overtime hours. W...
Elementary | Spending Money in Hong Kong
As one of Asia's premier shopping cities, Hong Kong has more than a few places to spend your hard-earned cash. No matter what it is you buy,...
Elementary | A Present for Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival, which is celebrated every year on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, is a celebration in honour of the moon, and shar...
Elementary | Photocopying and Printing
What do you do when you're thrust into an office environment with little English and a multitude of tasks to complete? ChinesePod offers a s...
Elementary | Finding the Office Building
You've gotten directions to the office and gotten your friend to tell the taxi driver where to go. All you need to do now is find your way o...
Elementary | Buying a Prepaid Cell Phone Card
So you've just had an hour-long argument with your landlord about the electricity bill or exchanged a few hundred texts with your significan...
Elementary | Restaurant Recommendation
Each person has his own preferences, but the Chinese way to finding a good restaurant is -- no, not Yelp or Dianping -- asking friends, face...
Elementary | Directions for the Taxi Driver
Why bother to even ask for directions at all, when you can just hop in a cab, call your Chinese friend, and have her tell the driver where y...
Elementary | Getting to the Office
You'd normally just check online for the fastest route via public transportation to get to your destination, but you're out of data on your...
Elementary | Afternoon Meeting
Afternoon meetings are a fact of life in many offices, but in many companies they're on a dangerous collision course with the Chinese "after...
Elementary | Boxing Day
No, Boxing Day has nothing to do with the big fight on Pay-Per-View. It's that semi-mystical holiday celebrated by the loyal subjects of the...