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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Question words and their position

Today we will review what we have done in previous lessons, but talk more in depth of words/phrases you might see often. Some of the Chinese characters looks so simple, but do you really understand it's meaning? Such as 的，几，儿. Are you using it correctly? Or have you explored all the possible combinations? If you's like to find out more, don's miss today's lesson.

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Long River

长江 is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world. It divides China into two parts, when you hear someone saying that they are coming from the north China, that means they live on the north side of China, same for the south. In ancient time, people use to call it 扬子江,and that is where the English name came from, maybe you will be more familiar with yangtze river, rather than the long river.

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Can you describe the picture – Brighton beach

Today we will look at colorful beach houses in Brighton. If you go to the lesson list, you should be able to see the picture on the left side. The purpose of this lesson is to practice your speakings. In the previous lessons, we have talked a lot about grammars and dialogue, so today we will try and use them, but with practical exercises. If you have to describe this picture for your friend, what would you say? I am sure that after this lesson, you will surprise them.

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Can you describe the picture?

In todays lesson you will continue learning about describing pictures.

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Chinese character or a picture?

Some Chinese characters are really easy to understand because they look very similar to the object they mean to describe. In this lesson we will look at Chinese Characters that look like a picture, where you can know the meaning, by just looking at the character. Yes that easy!

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Gardening

现在是夏天, now it is summer. Maybe you are planning to go somewhere, or maybe you decid to stay home, but one thing would be nice to do is gardening. Actually, I just realize that it is hard to find the correspond word for gardening in Chinese, literally, we could translate it as 园艺， but in Chinese 园艺 sounds very serious. If you would like 园艺 to be done in your own garden, you probably need to hire professional gardeners. But the gardening we will talk about in this lesson, let's say it is more to do with plant a vegetable or flower. It can be in your own garden or even in your balcony.

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Fruit

In this lesson, we will continue our topic of describing images. In our previous lesson, we described a picture with a little girl in it. And in this lesson, we will look at pictures with fruits.

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Little girl

Today we will learn something simple but interesting, which we have not done before. If you take a look at the picture for this lesson, would you be able to describe it for me? What is this picture about? Who is in the picture? What is the colour of this image? If I have to describe it using two or three sentences, I would say: 这是一张照片，照片上是一个小女孩，穿着红色的裙子，后面是绿色的植物。It might sound quite difficult to understand for now, but don't be worried, once I go through it with you, you will find it easy and also be able to form your own sentences. So, let's begin! Consolidate your knowledge of today's Chinese podcast by trying Chinese Test – Little girl

Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - In action

Mandarin is the official language of China and we call it putonghua. Putonghua is taught in schools and used in Universities, businesses and pretty much anywhere in China. although sometimes you might hear a different version of Mandarin from North of China, it still is easy to understand. But if you are living in the South, then you might have difficulties to understand the local dialect. Believe me, we Chinese have this problem too. This is why we use Putonghua as a common dialect.

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Beginner Lesson - Chinese Podcast - Daily Chinese - Farewell dinner

If your friends or colleagues are going to leave for good, the Chinese way to say goodbye is to invite them for a farewell dinner. 为某人饯行, a farewell for somebody. In today's lesson, we will learn how to make a toast, how to give presents and make appropriate remarks on receiving them and how to use exclamations. Don't forget to consolidate what you learned by trying the Chinese Test - Farewell dinner

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