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Learn Mandarin Chinese. And see how other people are doing. Find it out if Mandarin is difficult or not. Primary Format : Education Also Listed as: Educational City : hong kong State/Province : Unknown Country : Hong Kong Country : AS User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: learn chinese | learning mandarin | learn | Educational | Chinese | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Learning Mandarin Podcast Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Learning Mandarin Podcast Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Learning Mandarin Podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. New Three Piggy Story It's 旧瓶装新酒. It is a bed time story. Hope you enjoy it before you fall asleep!New Three Piggy StoryTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Album of Boats This is for us boat lovers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Idioms everywhere Have you ever found that it's hard to use idioms? Listen to this podcast for some inspiration!Idioms everywhereTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inflation and bio fuel The latest news on CPI in China is 8.5% last month, with a soaring 68.3% increase in pork. I don't think bio fuel can last very long.Inflation and bio fuelTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Man's Old Fashioned Job - video Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Man's Old Fashioned Job He works in Wu Zhen, Zhe Jiang. He has this very old and traditional job, making silver jewelries and selling them. I feel very fortunate to listen to his stories.This Man's Old Fashioned JobTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A burnign ember - video Click To Play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A burnign ember A burning ember could burn through the whole hill. The sad part is that this ember is from a burning candle, not the lightening. The video shows it all.A burning emberTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern Slave Modern society creates modern slaves. For example: are you your money's slave?Listen to: Modern SlaveTranscript in pin yin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ivory Tower and Real World This is a binary world. And here's something I observe:Ivory Tower and Real WorldTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lion Dance - II Tradition This is a thought train running through from lion dance to Starbucks and Nike.Lion Dance II - TraditionTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lion Dance - I Feb 7 was the first day of Chinese lunar year of rat. It will last for 15 days and it's a great time to enjoy all different kinds of Chinese traditions and treats. Here is some great lion dance for your eyes and ears! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Go Home for Chinese New Year At one point, there were 600000 people got stranded in Guangzhou train station a week before Chinese New Year. They suffered from cold and rain, and were happy to get by through some instant noodles. What were they waiting for and what was there for them for all the toughness?It was going home for Chinese New Year.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters for this podcast is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Ice and Snow World - II Continuing from last post, here's something couldn't be captured by a camera, and something could.Enjoy An Ice and Snow World II and my gift.Transcript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Ice and Snow World - I This world is surely very cold. It's so cold that my cell phone and camera stopped working. Later on I learned trick: put them in an inside pocket, so body warmth can keep them working.Enjoy the video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chinese People and Music This is the last podcast in year 2007. I should talk about something beautiful. What can have a lasting effect on people? What can be so beautiful and thought provoking?Music. So it comes to today's Chinese People and Music.Transcript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalogMerry Christmas and Happy New Year! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chinese People and Music This is the last podcast in year 2007. I should talk about something beautiful. What can have a lasting effect on people? What can be so beautiful and thought provoking?Music. So it comes to today's Chinese People and Music.Transcript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalogMerry Christmas and Happy New Year! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just a little bit I have been in this "little bit" trap for weeks. I finally got out and finished this podcast!Just a little bitTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just a little bit I have been in this "little bit" trap for weeks. I finally got out and finished this podcast!Just a little bitTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Network Mess Those Social Networks are a mess, at least for me. I dropped out from LinkedIn and MySpace, and other networks whose names I've forgotten.Social Network MessTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Network Mess Those Social Networks are a mess, at least for me. I dropped out from LinkedIn and MySpace, and other networks whose names I've forgotten.Social Network MessTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bond, James Bond With recent 007 movie series on TV, I have become a Bond fan. Here's to the heroBond, James BondTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bond, James Bond With recent 007 movie series on TV, I have become a Bond fan. Here's to the heroBond, James BondTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ever Lasting Hate Do you know that there were four most beautiful women in Chinese history. One of them is Yang Guifei. And the poem Chang Hen Ge (长恨歌) is all about her.Ever Lasting HateTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ever Lasting Hate Do you know that there were four most beautiful women in Chinese history. One of them is Yang Guifei. And the poem Chang Hen Ge (长恨歌) is all about her.Ever Lasting HateTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When It Comes to Art My personal opinion on art... You can download the transcript atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalogEnjoy the show! Click To Play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When It Comes to Art My personal opinion on art... You can download the transcript atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalogEnjoy the show! Click To Play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May I ask and Kiss Is there any way that a simple "May I ask" can change into "Kiss"? The answer is yes, but only in a Mandarin classroom.May I ask and KissTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May I ask and Kiss Is there any way that a simple "May I ask" can change into "Kiss"? The answer is yes, but only in a Mandarin classroom.May I ask and KissTranscript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Gorges Click To PlayFollow me through a short tour from Wuhan to Three Gorges.Transcript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Gorges Click To PlayFollow me through a short tour from Wuhan to Three Gorges.Transcript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From restaurant to pollution Have you spot any relationship between restaurant and pollution? Listen to:From restaurant to pollution.This podcast's transcript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From restaurant to pollution Have you spot any relationship between restaurant and pollution? Listen to:From restaurant to pollution.This podcast's transcript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three useful proverbs Proverbs are from real life, and can always use them to understand life as well. Here I gave three examples.Three useful proverbs.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three useful proverbs Proverbs are from real life, and can always use them to understand life as well. Here I gave three examples.Three useful proverbs.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The force of nature Yesterday typhoon visited Hong Kong and left with a lot of mess.This is what I observed The force of nature.This podcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The force of nature Yesterday typhoon visited Hong Kong and left with a lot of mess.This is what I observed The force of nature.This podcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Disasters From flood to high temperature, from bad product to stock markets down. Do you think we have enough of this type of things?Disasters.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Disasters From flood to high temperature, from bad product to stock markets down. Do you think we have enough of this type of things?Disasters.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cats and Dogs Some random thoughts spawned from a news story about a cat. I went back to the old format because of fear of copy rights violations.This is Cats and Dogs.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cats and Dogs Some random thoughts spawned from a news story about a cat. I went back to the old format because of fear of copy rights violations.This is Cats and Dogs.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Energy Crisis? Click To PlayThis is my personal opinion on energy crisis and what we can do about it.Podcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Energy Crisis? Click To PlayThis is my personal opinion on energy crisis and what we can do about it.Podcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regular Life Click To PlayThis is a regular life episode where you can see in many places in China.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regular Life Click To PlayThis is a regular life episode where you can see in many places in China.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Temples and Turmoil Click To PlayI have seen a lot of temples in Xi'an and I have also seen a lot of war weapons.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Temples and Turmoil Click To PlayI have seen a lot of temples in Xi'an and I have also seen a lot of war weapons.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Must Go Places in Xi'an Click To PlayWhen people talk about Xi'an, they talk about Terra Cotta Warriors. It's no doubt a magnificent sight!Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Must Go Places in Xi'an Click To PlayWhen people talk about Xi'an, they talk about Terra Cotta Warriors. It's no doubt a magnificent sight!Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shanxi People and Food Click To PlayXi'an is a fantastic place, especially people and food. Because of people, I really enjoyed food. Because of food, I really appreciated people.You can download this podcast's transcript (in pinyin and simplified characters) at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shanxi People and Food Click To PlayXi'an is a fantastic place, especially people and food. Because of people, I really enjoyed food. Because of food, I really appreciated people.You can download this podcast's transcript (in pinyin and simplified characters) at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time Square or fresh air? Click To PlayThis is semi-video podcast where you can see the most of what I am talking about! You can still go to the same place www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog for this podcast's transcript which is in pinyin and simplified characters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time Square or fresh air? Click To PlayThis is semi-video podcast where you can see the most of what I am talking about! You can still go to the same place www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog for this podcast's transcript which is in pinyin and simplified characters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5kg = 10kg This is not a math problem. It's a true experience! I realized it at my body pump classes.Listen to 5kg = 10kgThis podcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is avaialble at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5kg = 10kg This is not a math problem. It's a true experience! I realized it at my body pump classes.Listen to 5kg = 10kgThis podcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is avaialble at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Birth, Aging, Sickness and Death I missed last week's show. The reason is I was sick. Today I feel much better now. Listen to my thoughts on a time when I am about to get well again:Birth, Aging, Sickness and DeathPodcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available on line at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Birth, Aging, Sickness and Death I missed last week's show. The reason is I was sick. Today I feel much better now. Listen to my thoughts on a time when I am about to get well again:Birth, Aging, Sickness and DeathPodcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available on line at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Auction Culture Auction is the trend, isn't it? After failing selling anything from ebay HK, this is my another try. Here I'd like to auction a set of very old learning Chinese textbook. From the photo, you can see how old these books are. Want to know how much the starting price is?Please listen toAuction CultureTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Auction Culture Auction is the trend, isn't it? After failing selling anything from ebay HK, this is my another try. Here I'd like to auction a set of very old learning Chinese textbook. From the photo, you can see how old these books are. Want to know how much the starting price is?Please listen to Auction CultureTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toilets in China Alas! Maybe you won't listen to today's show when eating!It's some toilets experience in China.You can download this podcast's transcript (in pinyin and simplified character) at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toilets in China Alas! Maybe you won't listen to today's show when eating!It's some toilets experience in China.You can download this podcast's transcript (in pinyin and simplified character) at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love Today's show is about this Dan Rhodes book which I finished reading this week. If let me give a subtitle to my today's show, that would be: Why I don't like this book.Here's my reasons.This podcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love Today's show is about this Dan Rhodes book which I finished reading this week. If let me give a subtitle to my today's show, that would be: Why I don't like this book.Here's my reasons.This podcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stir Fried Squid Are we talking about ordering in a restaurant?? No. It's far from it.Listen and find out: Stir Fried SquidPodcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stir Fried Squid Are we talking about ordering in a restaurant?? No. It's far from it.Listen and find out: Stir Fried SquidPodcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Titles When it comes to Chinese family titles, many Chinese learners will get headache. I have seen a lot when my students are at Basic Level A, lesson 5.Besides family titles, there are a pool of different titles in China. Here I introduce three of them.Enjoy Titles.This podcast's transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How did Chinese absorb new words? Absorbing new words is a on-going process for every language. Chinese has absorbed many, like Shafa(sofa), Pijiu (beer), Youmo(humour), etc. And this process is continuing till today.In this podcast, I introduced a few more. EnjoyHow did Chinese absorb new words?Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everyone has a story Chinese has a saying: Don't judge people by their looks. Well, neither by their clothes or by their occupation.Every has a unique story!Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Save money, or not? This is a listening exercise story I wrote for my Pre-Intermediate A students. But after we discussed it during the class, I felt it is worth to be read in this podcast because this story may have some merit.Let me know if you like this story: Save money, or not?Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jokes and Culture Knock, knock!Who's that?Banana.Banana who?I still don't get it. To understand jokes is not a language problem, it's rather a culture problem. Here is what I think: Jokes and CultureTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chinese Horoscope Feb 18 started the year of pig. It already affected many people. What does that mean to you?Listen to today'sChinese Horoscope.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flower and Spring Festival Spring Festival is here! And it's time to buy and take home some flowers with great names. I chatted withZhalaoban, and learned something new. This picture showed here isHuDieLan(butterfly orchid).This isFlower and Spring Festival.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From bicycles to cars It's been a long time since I saw so many bicycles packed together like in this picture. It sure reminded me the changes happened and happening in China.This isFrom bicycles to cars.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Raising Children I am no expert in raising children. But I do have some opinions for people who are interested in this topic.This is Raising Children.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalogHere I would like to thank Donton for his suggestion! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tea money Tea money is the tip we gave to the movers yesterday. Why didn't we just call it "tip"? I believe from this word, you can tell eating is a central part of Chinese culture.This is today's show Tea money.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available online at www.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting educated when watching a movie I like watching movies, especially comedies! And I don't like movies like Flushed Away or Happy Feet. It's not because there are animations, it's because...Listen toGetting educated when watching a movie.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apartment Moving I'm moving to Lantau at the end of this month. Looking for new places is quite time consuming. I am glad the hunt is over and I am really looking forward to a better life style there!This isApartment Moving.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A chat with a Chinese domestic helper To learn Chinese is to know Chinese people. Every one has a story to tell. Today's show is about what I have learned about a hard working domestic helper (bao mu).I hope you like her story as much as I do.This isA chat with a Chinese domestic helper.This podcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's time to celebrate! Christmas is two days away, and that starts a long holiday all the way till New Year. It's time to celebrate!Although I am not a religious person, Christmas and Santa can also bring me lots of vacation and gifts. The reason is that now it's a commercial holiday as much as a religious holiday.This podcast is the last one in 2006. I will see you in the air in 2007.I am very thankful for everybody who has been there for me, wrote to me, encouraged me. And please continue to support me!My gift ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pirated DVD and Some Tao Philosophy Is that possible to eliminate pirated DVD, or eliminate all the copy-right videos from Youtube or those peer-to-peer music sharing site? I thought about it, and I believe it's impossible. The answer is in a famous story told 2300 years ago.Find out more in today's showPirated DVD and Some Tao Philosophy.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available online atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Stock Market Is Going Up! This is a simple and over generalized observation about Hong Kong stock market. But today's show is packed with some stock market terms that I hope can be useful.Here'sThe Stock Market Is Going Up!Podcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com/catalog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time to Work Out - Interview with a Fitness Trainer Zhang Ni is a great trainer at the training ground, a gentleman when he is not there.This is the first time that I interviewed a native Chinese speaker. And the transcript runs 12 pages long!Recommendations and suggestions are very welcome!Here's today's show:Time to Work Out!Transcript in pinyinand simplified characters available atwww.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origin of Some Characters II This is the second show of talking about origin of some characters. I am sure you already know a lot. But there are some characters you might not know! For example, can you draw connections between this picture of nose with "four"?This isThe Origin of Some Characters II.Transcrip in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origin of Some Characters I When learning characters, many people like to ask this question: What do different parts mean? This is a difficult question, because different people may give a different answer!Here I talked a bit about some characters' original meaning, including the character for cloud. That's why I picked this picture.Enjoy today'sThe Origin of Some Characters I.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available atwww.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Chinese People Like To Bargain? You probably know this as a fact that Chinese people like to bargain. Have you thought about why?My opinion is that in Chinese traditional culture, businesspeople should not be trusted.Here's today's show "Why Chinese People Like To Bargain?"Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do you need an MBA? If you read papers, magzines, the ads for recruting MBA students can not escape your eyes. There are so many of them.Is it really useful?Today's show is my opinion about MBA.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available on www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Superstition Friday 13th! How many of you consider this is an unluky day?Chinese people don't believe Friday 13th, but we do believe something else. Find out more on today's show My Superstition!Podcast transcript in pinyin and simplifed characters is available on www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Moon On Mid-Autumn Festival Night Among sky high buildings,The moon is there, beautiful and calm.Staying in a big city, to appreciate the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival Night needs a bit effort. You need to find it among all the sky high buildings.This is my festival night.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters available at www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website National Day And Travel Oct 1st - 7th are promising days for Hong Kong shops and store managers because that's when lots of Chinese people take time off and go travel. About 400000 people will come to Hong Kong and shop. That's why it is dubbed as "gold week". Besides Hong Kong, there are some other good places to go!Here's National Day and Travel.Transcript in pinyin and simplified Chinese is available at www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Teacher In China, Confucius Kong zi - Confucius, is the first teacher in China. He in many ways is a great man.Here we have a bit of introductory of him on his learning path and his teaching.Enjoy KongziTranscript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mid-autumn Festival Oct 6 is an important day for Chinese. That is Mid-autumn Festival. Families eat moon cakes and appreciate the moon. And you have lots of choices of what kind of moon cake you like, Chocolate moon cakes, icecream moon cakes, or others.Thank you for listening to Mid-autumn Festival. This podcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available in www.msllearningcenter.com . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Chinese Joke This weekend, allow me tell you a joke about a policeman. Have a great weekend!Here's the joke.This podcast's transcript is available at www.mslleanringcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music and Chinese Do you worry too much about your pronunciation? About the four tones?Well, don't! Learn some songs, and that will set you free!Here's Music and Chinese.Podcast transcript in pinyin and simplifed characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smart = Successful? Are smart people successful people?I though so before, but not anymore. Here's my observation from the performance in my class.You probably have guessed the answer is.Smart = Successful?Transcript in simplified Chinese and pinyin is available at www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Online Education Like so much on the net, online education took a while. But it's coming back.I have joined the trend of providing online language lessons. After some initial experience, I really found it useful and handy.Here's Online Education.Podcast transcript is available at www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1% Last week I told an unfinished story. Till today 1% of my listeners responded. theabc gave an interesting ending, fit perfectly with a traditional Chinese thinking towards poor people.Here's 1%.Podcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available online at www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Give this story an ending… Would you like to give a story an ending, in Chinese?In this show, I told the beginning of a story, you can either email me your ending, or put it on the blog.I hope to meet more learning Chinese friends through this way.Thank you for listening to me!Here's the unfinished story.This podcast transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available at www.msllearningcenter.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zaijian, Fumie! After four years in Hong Kong, Fumie is returning to Japan. She recently finished Pre-Intermediate B and she is getting more and more proficient every day!Last Saturday Fumie, Carlton and I had a late night in Lankwaifong, a bar area in Hong Kong central district. LanKwaifong is a very popular place, especially during late at night. It's crazy.There we talked a lot about past and future, but I have to cut it short in today's show because it's just way too noisy.Zai jian, Fumie! with all th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World is Flat I have been reading a wonderful book The World is Flat lately. I really like this book and also found some asian philosophy in there.Here's what I found out: The World is Flat.Transcript in pinyin and simplified characters is available on online store. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travel and Language Summer is here! Do you have any travel plans? Where?In today's show, I talked a bit about the relationship between travel and languages.Have a great trip!Transcriptions in pinyin and simplified characters available at online store. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where else can you speak Mandarin? Nice green sidewalk.Sign in the airport.Another sign in the airport.You may have the wish of "stay in China for two three months to practice Mandarin." If you don't get to do it, don't sweat, there are other places that you can practice your Mandarin.In this show, I will talk a bit about Singapore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Recently the news is all but Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Here I also talked a bit in Chinese.Here is Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Technology and Learning Mandarin Technology is advancing so fast, in many ways it reshaped how people learn a new language. I tried some new and cool softwares. Most of them are good and creative.With the help of the new tech, I can also be part of the new edgy learning and teaching trend!Here's Technology and Learning Mandarin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen W. Hawking Visits Hong Kong I am quite excited about seeing him on TV and listening to his speech. Although I wonder how can computer know what he wants to say.Here is today's show: One of our great scientists visits Hong Kong Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 666, Curse in the west, bless in China I recently learned that 666 is not considered a good number in the west. But do you know this number is considered one of the luckiest numbers in China?Here is today's show: 666, curse in the west, bless in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chinese characters III - The most effective way to learn Chinese reading and writing Followed last episode on how many characters to learn, today's topic is focused on how to learn it.Many people choose to learn a dictionary type of textbook. It's not very effective.The new way and the best way is to learn:very limited charactersand these characters are massively and repeatedly used in short conversations and essays. I also gave an example of a carefully crafted short paragraph in my book Chinese Reading and Writing I.Here's the most effective way to learn Chinese reading a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chinese Characters II - How many characters are enough? Do you know the most frequently used Chinese character is "的"? The second one is "一"?We can put it this way, without this two characters, Chinese will lose it's function.Today's podcast is the second one in talking about Chinese characters: How many characters do you need to learn to be able to read Chinese books and newspapers?This podcast's transcript is available for download at online store. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chinese Characters I - Simplified Characters vs. Traditional Characters If you haven't learned Chinese reading and writing yet, are you going to learn simplified characters or traditional characters?Some people will say learn traditional one, while some people will say learn simplified one. Maybe after you listen to the podcast, you can decide.Here's simplified characters vs. traditional characters!My opinion? Simplified characters! And you can find this podcast transcript in pinyin and simplifed characters at the online store. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When you are in a foreign country, what do you eat? Do you eat local food or the food you know?Also, starting from this podcast, the transcript format will be changed. This podcast transcript can be downloaded for free at our freebie center on website www.msllearningcenter.com .Let me know if you like the new format!Enjoy the podcast 22! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diet Summer is coming! So, ladies and gentlemen, are you thinking of losing ten jin? Here I talked about some methods I heard about on diet and get rid of some pounds.Here's Diet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Singapore Girl Talked About Her Learning Mandarin Experience Mandarin speaking region is actually bigger than you thought. A great percentage of overseas Chinese people, like in Singapore, in Malaysia all speak Mandarin.Here I invited Weiling talked about her learning Mandarin experience. If you listen carefully, you will notice that there is a subtle difference in a couple of choice of words. That is Taiwan influence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great Places to Go in China Easter weekend is over. I am sure lots of people went travelling during that long weekend. Tim and Wantanee went to Xi'an, Nathan went to Yunnan and Guangxi. You can see Nathan's Yunnan pictures on the blog. Now you can listen to Tim talking about his trip.Also I gave some of my personal recommendations on great places to go in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rolling Stones in Shanghai, China Rolling Stones came and performed first time in China last weekend. There were ups and downs, but Rolling Stones is the longest lasting Rock n Roll band.Listen some more here: Rolling Stones in Shanghai, China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Endangered Wonders of The World This week's NewsWeek's cover story is The 7 Most Endangered Wonders of The World. I found it very interesting and good to know. If you have read this story, it will be easier to understand.Here's Endangered Wonders of The World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mandarin and Putonghua This week I did something new. One is put together an expression kit and some Chinese and Western popular holidays and celebrations.This podcast is about Mandarin and Putonghua. Many people asked if putonghua, guoyu and huayu are the same thing. The answer is they are!For details, listen to Mandarin and Putonghua. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |